David Schweikert: “To the gentlelady from Ohio, you hit a couple points that I absolutely agree on. We have a horrible obesity epidemic. We…”

“To the gentlelady from Ohio, you hit a couple points that I absolutely agree on. We have a horrible obesity epidemic. We have a crisis of nutrition of what people consume. If you really care about those things, then you would actually look at the farm bill overall and what we do in this country to distort what we consume. Walk down your grocery store aisles and you will see what we've done by more government policy. But the fact of the matter is you, in many ways, make your own argument. If there is actually a program that you believe is working at all in Pennsylvania, then you've demonstrated the States are capable of doing this. But, once again, to take another $125 million of Federal money to create another program that ultimately actually does things like buys a grocery store, I mean actually competes with a private business, I see something that's almost absurd in that if that's the way that this amendment ultimately works. With that, Mr. Chairman, I reserve the balance of my time.”