The food program is essential to the farm bill.

The one thing we cannot survive without is food.

A veteran is more than twice as likely than the average American to be food insecure.

I just really want to commend you for putting this panel together and this hearing for several important reasons.

When the disciples asked Him, what is it you would have me to do? He said go and feed the hungry and love your neighbor as yourself.

I don't think this country realizes how impactful the situation is with our veterans going hungry, and it is a shame and it is a disgrace.

We need so much there, and nowhere is this 20--20 is the number of each day that we have a veteran committing suicide.

We should not rest with any soul in this country, any child, any person going hungry.

African-American men make up only eight percent of the population of this nation, but they make up 50 percent of those in jail.

Our welfare reform law permanently disqualifies individuals from SNAP participation if they have been convicted of a state or Federal felony involving the possession, use, or distribution of a controlled substance.

Did you know that now there are 2.2 million people sitting in the prisons of the United States, in the jails?

the goal should be the harder you work the more you earn, and the more you have.

I wasn't suggesting that it was designed to be a bar to the use of prepaid cards.

Thank you for that. It is a problem, and hopefully we can work together to try to alleviate that glitch.

Of course, for Georgia, wood products are incredibly important and where processing and manufacturing of forest products employs almost 150,000 people in the State.

Many of us at some point would like to see persistent poverty counties in the nation have a targeted plan of action from USDA and all federal agencies.

Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman.

Wouldn't the cost of compliance with an 870-page rule be significant to the parties, the States, and local governments, and any other parties that utilize the prepaid cards?