Steve Southerland

I certainly appreciate your passion for it. I know we differ on some ideas of how to resolve it, but I do agree with you that there are people out there that need the help.

With food stamp usage now cutting a swath well into the middle class, is it fair to ask if we were anticipating that average Americans would be buying each other their groceries through the Federal Government?

The financial costs of distributing free food to such a large portion of American families is a substantial burden on the average American taxpayer.

The Food Stamp Program, or SNAP, is a food supplement program whose intended purpose is to assure individuals with the very lowest incomes have enough to eat.

I am not in favor of giving you guys more land. You cannot manage what you have properly.

I also want to remind my colleagues that no one was a greater champion of my amendment than former Massachusetts Congressman Barney Frank. He is definitely a stalwart in New England fisheries. So though he is not here, his spirit in favor…

I thank the gentleman very much for those sentiments and that offer. We will contact the coaches and see what we can do.

I mean I look at when you have had 50 percent reduction in water flows, it is having a--you did allude to the oyster industry down in Apalachicola. That is the heart of my district.

This is about real people.

I would urge the Corps to mandate that Georgia implement such practices in their draft water control plan.

I have seen firsthand the devastating impact of reduced downstream flows on this community's ecosystem, environment, and economy.

I think there is a problem, Mr. Pearce, at the Council level. For this Council to accept a program that so damages and continues to divide a sector is--I just want it to be stated that I think that is ill-advised, and not designed in a way…

I now yield 45 seconds to the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Kingston), whose welfare rolls were reduced by over 85 percent in the 1996 work requirements.

I now yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Virginia, Majority Leader Cantor, who represents a State in which, as a result of the 1996 work requirement, welfare rolls were reduced by over 84 percent.

1,700 days and counting: that's how long it's been since the application to build the Keystone XL pipeline was submitted to the State Department. And with each passing day, every new delay, job creation has been stalled and American energy…

Quit talking about it and show us. Let our people work.

These people don't want a handout, they want a future. This is sinful, and it is so aggravating to me.

I think you mean well, and I think you are a very nice man. And I feel sorry that you have to step before us today and tote the water for an Administration who just doesn't get it.

They want to control their future. They want to take ownership. They don't want you to control their future.

We cannot increase taxes on hardworking families that are making their living fishing, and yet we have the ability to go out and remove reefs with explosives that kill tens of thousands of fish

The EPA, for example, does not have the burden of proof. And they are absolutely, in my opinion, the greatest threat to free enterprise in America today.

In this country you are innocent until you are proven guilty.

One of the things that seems--in trying to solve, I guess, perceived problems, so often times the Federal Government just creates bigger problems.

This appears to me, Mr. Chairman, to be a solution looking for a problem.