"Thank you all so much for your time and your testimony, and the hard work you do every day, and we will do our best to support you."
"This bill would create USDA-funded, state-operated revolving funds that will issue low-interest loans for the operation of grocery stores in food deserts."
"This bill permanently expands SNAP eligibility to college students."
"Frankly, if grades were any worse than F, we would have gone all the way to Z."
"I refuse to let my daughter deal with the same air quality or even worse than what I did."
"During that 4 years, while EPA was reviewing what we do to improve our air quality, more than 4,000 adults had their lives cut short by poor air quality just in our region."
"Obviously, we want to do everything we can to fix this before we become where we are on track to be, which is the first time in U.S. history that a community would be subject to penalties this severe."
"I was shocked and devastated and disappointed to see that the proposed budget that we are talking about today cuts the nutria eradication budget by almost 61 percent."
"We don't want the same thing happening in California."
"I have spent time putting on waders, going into the wetlands myself. I know it works."
"Every single environmental advocate, every single farmer in our district is on board with this effort."