Steve Southerland: “This is about real people.”

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.

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.