"I think a lot of what you have heard today and a lot of the concerns of my colleagues are that congressionally appropriated funds... have now been shifted to support programs like IRAPs."
"I just find it very difficult to believe that the Department of Labor can't come up with a system by which we are pulling this apart."
"But we could have helped you with those challenges had we had the information."
"Thank you, Chairman Costa, for holding this important hearing."
"I look forward to working with my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to get ahead of eradicating these species that are damaging many of our agricultural sectors."
"It is particularly important to me to work diligently to help farmers protect their poultry and greenhouses against wild, invasive, and non-native species."
"What I don't get is the idea that pregnancy is some kind of unforeseen limitation for a company."
"I don't think this is an equality issue, this is an equity issue because last I checked, men can't get pregnant."
"Hungry kids don't care about income tests."
"We have a responsibility as the stewards of these programs... to ensure that we are fixing the things that are broken."
"So it is just deeply concerning to me that of all the areas where we need work that targeting children at this time where food insecurity is identified as such a critical problem in our communities, t..."
"But all of your testimony kind of lends itself to the fact that you don't trust the states to be good stewards of these programs."