Steve Southerland: “I now yield 45 seconds to the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Kingston), whose welfare rolls were reduced by over 85 percent…”

We have a responsibility to address that fraud, because if we don't, then in the end we will be able to serve fewer people.

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.

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?

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.