Political Quotes

“Thank you very much. First, let me thank my colleague, Congresswoman DeLauro, for yielding and those kind words. But let me just thank you for not only organizing this Special Order, but for really continuing to beat the drum so that the country can understand how important nutrition programs are to our Nation. This is not just a job for Congresswoman DeLauro. This is about her life's work. So I just have to thank her for her leadership. Republicans are preparing to attack families on food stamps. They are planning to take an axe to one of the most important protections for the poor, children, seniors, the disabled, which is, of course, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. They are attempting to cut up to $33 billion from critical, anti-hunger programs even, mind you, as they bring up this bill, H.R. 9, the Small Business Tax Cut Act, which is another $46 billion tax holiday for the very wealthy. They are trying to bring this up at the same time. When Republicans target programs that protect vulnerable Americans from massive cuts that risk making millions of children suffer hunger and depravation, they are doing so unfortunately in the name of fiscal responsibility and deficit reduction. Yet in the very next breath when they want to give away tax breaks to the already wealthy businesses, then those same deficits don't seem to matter. Mr.…”