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This process is not just about the bureaucracy behind SNAP, it's about helping people.

We are here to ensure people will get a job, support their family, and ultimately become financially independent.

Thank you for the opportunity to testify this afternoon.

I want to see a nation where no child goes hungry.

SNAP is critical to ending childhood hunger.

I thank the gentleman for supporting the amendment. The reasons he is supporting are completely wrong. We have increased Federal spending, as the gentleman knows, on education over 300 percent since the Federal Government has been…

I understand that Senators have some business to wrap up and are expecting an early out here today, and this Senator is letting some of them finish their conversations. I do want to speak, and I appreciate the unanimous consent request to…

It takes a champion, whether it is a champion like in Tennessee where the Governor had sold the ability to fix the roads and bridges on the basis of a tax increase.

To be given the gavel for a short amount of time is one of the singular accomplishments of my service in the United States Senate.

We in Indiana do not like to go into debt. We do not like to raise taxes.

The current system does not work anymore, for whatever reason and a variety of reasons, one of which is that no one wants to add a penny of taxes.

Governor Daniels found a way to address the issue of repairing and building roads in Indiana and repairing and building bridges in Indiana without having to do either one of those.

This is about leadership, as Mr. Payne so rightly suggested. And it is about creativity. And it is about flexibility.

While these regulations are well intended, states and schools are struggling to comply with them, and the very children we aim to serve are paying the price.

The federal role in these programs may be doing more to hinder your success than help it.

We cannot expect children to learn or excel in the classroom if they are hungry or are not properly nourished.

It is time to provide those responsible for implementing child nutrition programs with the flexibility they need to ensure taxpayer dollars are well spent and students are well served.

During my prior service in the Senate, I was one of the 'Nay' votes for the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990.