Steve Southerland: “The financial costs of distributing free food to such a large portion of American families is a substantial burden on…”

This is about real people.

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.

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.

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?