{"id":1475917,"date":"2022-05-15T14:14:41","date_gmt":"2022-05-15T18:14:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1475917"},"modified":"2022-05-15T14:14:45","modified_gmt":"2022-05-15T18:14:45","slug":"pelosi-we-have-babies-crying-in-our-country-because-theyre-hungry-and-the-shelves-are-bare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pelosi-we-have-babies-crying-in-our-country-because-theyre-hungry-and-the-shelves-are-bare\/","title":{"rendered":"Pelosi: \u2018We Have Babies Crying In Our Country Because They\u2019re Hungry And The Shelves Are Bare\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpelosi-we-have-babies-crying-in-our-country-because-theyre-hungry-and-the-shelves-are-bare%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1475917&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2020\/12\/Pelosi-3-scaled-e1608640752455.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said on Sunday that the U.S. has to figure out how there became a seemingly sudden shortage of baby formula.<\/p>\n<p>Pelosi\u2019s remarks on CNN\u2019s \u201cState of the Union\u201d come as Democrats control the House of Representatives, the Senate, and the White House.<\/p>\n<p>Pelosi said that the president should use the Defense Production Act and that laws need to be changed to allow that to happen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn addition to all of this, we have to subject these companies to some scrutiny about the safety of this and how we got to a place where we have babies crying in our country because they\u2019re hungry and the shelves are bare,\u201d Pelosi said. \u201cWe have to fill them immediately.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI say that as a mother of five, yes, grandmother of nine,\u201d she concluded.<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p><em>DANA BASH, CNN HOST: Yes, understandably.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>And speaking of families, I want to ask about baby formula and the shortage in America. And one manufacturer expects the shortages to last for the rest of the year. There are American parents who can\u2019t feed their babies right now.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>So, when can parents who need help expect that? For example, Madam Speaker, should the present use the Defense Production Act to manufacture more baby formula?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>REP. NANCY PELOSI (D-CA): Yes, I think so.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>But the \u2014 as the law is now, it is not possible to do that. Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro, who had \u2014 she\u2019s the chair of the Appropriations Committee, as you know. She\u2019s been on this case for a while. She was the chair of the new \u2014 Ag Committee, Subcommittee on Appropriations, before.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>And that\u2019s ag, but it\u2019s also nutrition and everything that goes with that. So we have been talking about that. And she feels quite certain that we have to change the law in order for the Defense Production Act to be called into play. And we certainly should.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>But, in the meantime, this week, we have two bills coming up. Bobby Scott, chair of Education and Labor Committee, has a bill to loosen some of the red tape associated with how people can buy formula and other aspects of that. Fifty percent of the formula is purchased under the WIC program, and so to facilitate that, A.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>B, we then have another bill that Rosa, Madam Chair, is putting together that will allocate resources for us to be able to purchase more. And that is, there are four countries, Mexico, Chile, Ireland and the Netherlands, who have supply that we may be able to acquire immediately.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Now, the president has rightfully said, rightfully said, we have to be as fast as possible, but as cautious as possible, so that we have safety. In addition to all of this, we have to subject these companies to some scrutiny about the safety of this and how we got to a place where we have babies crying in our country because they\u2019re hungry\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>BASH: Yes.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>PELOSI: \u2026 and the shelves are bare.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>We have to fill them immediately.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>BASH: Real quick. We\u2019re\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>PELOSI: I say that as a mother of five, yes, grandmother of nine.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said on Sunday that the U.S. has to figure out how there became a seemingly sudden shortage of baby formula.Pelosi\u2019s remarks on CNN\u2019s \u201cState of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":134,"featured_media":1480189,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1475917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1475917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/134"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1475917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1475917\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1480189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1475917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1475917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1475917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}