Rosa DeLauro

There has been a lot of talk about SNAP and waste, fraud and abuse, and error.

I think I can confidently say most of us in Congress spend more money on ourselves every day to eat or feed our families.

They should be providing better oversight of the providers.

I can assure you, Congressman, that we will do everything we can if we need to put in place a moratorium to have that moratorium lifted as quickly as possible.

One in seven don't know where their next meal is coming from, and it is not food insecurity. They are going to bed hungry.

I defy you--and I come from a State that is defense dependent, so I do make a case here, but I will tell you, let's take a look at what 99 percent of the defense contractors are getting and let's take a look at the waste, fraud and abuse…

This will be a major, major setback, to women, infants and children and their health.

I would appreciate that information and the recommendations and the structures that are in place that really address this issue and what needs to be done to tighten them up.

But the last 3 or 4 years. So the last 3 or 4 years.

This is about trade, rather than about food safety as a part of it.

I was very, very delighted to see FSIS finally sent a proposed rule to OMB to label mechanically tenderized beef products.

I continue to be concerned about the process used to announce changes to the equivalency of verification process.

Again have we learned? What happened in California, politically, is that people got so fed up with it they threw all the Republicans out of office.

Have you learned any lessons from California? I mean they have a lot of first responders.

I think that Congress ought to re-evaluate the madness of sequestration, and the havoc that it is wreaking on the American people.

This country is just falling apart with this cut, squeeze, and trim mentality that we have in this House--right now.

And I want to just say welcome, and it is always wonderful to have you here before the Subcommittee.

Let's get on with it, let's make changes where there need to be changes, but let's be able to do what the law of the land says.

The House voted for the Affordable Care Act, the Senate voted for it, the President signed it, the Supreme Court upheld it.

Our job is to implement it and to make sure that it works well.

I think when your boss' ideology determines your health care, we are certainly into a whole new world.

You are, in fact, saying they are abortifacients.

The study's number one finding was that Head Start children enter kindergarten performing above their peers in all measurable categories.

Do you agree that we face a prescription drug abuse epidemic?

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