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...speech which ranged from Alexis de Tocqueville to California avocado growers, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Dan R. Glickman addressed a crowd of about 100 yesterday in the ARCO Forum of the Institute of Politics...
...former U.S. congressional representative, Glickman shared his experiences in two branches of government in a talk entitled "From Congress to the Cabinet: Making Public Policy Work...
...Glickman, who served in the House for 18 years as a representative from Wichita, Kan., spoke about the role of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), as well as the different ways in which the President's Cabinet and Congress approach issues...
According to Glickman, when he gained his Congressional seat in 1976, he immediately felt the need to fight for his district's agricultural interests...
...Recovery of just five percent of that food would have provided enough for 4 million people to eat, the study estimates. Homes and restaurants accounted for the bulk of the waste: grocery stores tossed out 5.4 billion pounds of food. While publicly aghast at the spoilage, Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman is mostly satisfied with providing a food recovery hotline (1-800-GLEAN-IT)and such non-profit organizations as Second Harvest to distribute the bounty to the needed...