Because if you are a taxpayer who can't afford to hire a lawyer or an accountant to help you create complexity and shield your income, then you would likely be very frustrated if those that did have the resources could do that and evade…

Last month, I joined my colleague Jared Moskowitz on a tour of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. The school is frozen in time. It is just as it was 6 years ago today when a gunman stole the lives of 17 people…

Under Republican funding cuts, the audit rate on millionaires fell by more than 70 percent.

we can support our farmers and hungry families at the same time. This is not an either/or situation.

The Republican Majority is trying to defund our nation's financial intelligence unit by cutting the budget of FinCEN.

He's worried that just by bringing it up to a vote... he's worried he'll lose his job.

As a member of the House Subcommittee on National Security, the Border and Foreign Affairs, I rise in strong support of emergency aid for our Democratic ally and partner and for the people of Ukraine, now entering the third year of their…

We will not cut SNAP.

The hypocrisy of this Administration knows no bounds, and a prime example is your shifting positions on the ideal farm size in less than a decade.

I continue to be concerned about Buy American requirements in school meals. American dollars should support American-produced food products.

Your majority has been ineffective, and what you are doing and what you are advocating is highly unpopular.

My Republican friends complain about the cost of some of these programs. They don't talk about the savings and avoidable healthcare costs that result by investing in these nutrition programs.

I continue to implore my Democratic colleagues to think, in earnest, about those priorities, priorities that can be funded without cutting a SNAP benefit or eliminating the important conservation programs we have all come to appreciate.

They want you to focus on helping struggling families instead to be able to put nutritious food on the table.

He's put our national security at risk. He's put the sources of intelligence at risk.

raiding programs that invest in high-demand conservation and nutrition initiatives like SNAP do not achieve a bipartisan farm bill, but instead they hurt the people who are struggling today.

Robbing Peter to pay Paul is not going to result in an effective farm bill.

I don't think it is a radical idea to want a farm bill that supports small- and medium-sized farms, that supports conservation.