Steve Southerland: “I mean, I appreciate that, but that sounds a little ludicrous, to be just very blunt with you.”

I appreciate the efforts of you and Ranking Member Rahall, and those efforts, how they have advanced this bipartisan piece of legislation. I would also like to thank Subcommittee Chairman Gibbs for giving this issue the urgent attention…

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

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

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?