"Without holistic, comprehensive, long-term case management we don't really stand a chance as a country of moving families forward."
"We have made the working poor our people at Catholic Charities, but you and I often aren't working toward the same goals because the minute a family starts moving forward with our help, they are pushe..."
"If the goal is to help SNAP participants no longer need nutrition assistance, what kind of investments do we need to make?"
"My message today is that we need to invest differently. More Americans will experience income stability if we get these Federal programs right."
"I think that is the intention here, and I didn't hear anybody here say that the way we help people get out of poverty is to cut SNAP by $10 billion."
"States need to have that flexibility to be able to provide people with basic food assistance."
"This will continue, and we need to work together as we look at the farm bill."
"We certainly need to get it done in some bipartisan fashion."
"the blue card legislation that Senator Feinstein and others of us are working on is a partial solution, would you say?"
"maybe we don't need to build that wall that somebody else is supposed to pay for because, frankly, that is not the challenge, from my perspective."
"I would not forget Texas, Mr. Chairman, ever."