WIC food packages are extremely restrictive, even when it comes to healthy foods, and vary widely by state.

Think about it. When Thomas Jefferson wrote those words, he said to himself, and he wrote in one particular pamphlet, and he wrote this to his arch competitor, Alexander Hamilton.

If we don't increase SNAP-Education funding and we don't really put resources to allow folks to do these incentives...

Food surveillance violates the basic principles of this great country, and first of all, you are going to discriminate between a low-income person simply because for 6 months on average that is all they stay on food stamps.

This whole issue, to me, strikes right at the nerve of the foundation of our great country, which is founded on the principles of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

We really shouldn't be the food police. We ought to do incentives.

I can't get anything that she ought to be eating. Anything.

Thank you for our work over the past 2 years together in dealing with and addressing this alarming high unemployment rate in the African-American community.

Eighty-eight percent of all of the African American students that obtain a college education do so because they have had scholarship and financial assistance.

The students we educate today are so very much like the mentioned alums.

It is very important for everybody to know that the 1890s were founded on the principle of equal opportunity.

It is very important also for the Presidents to address the importance of this bill in relationship to their own standing, their own ability that this will heighten their ability to genuinely have a seat at the table in higher education in…

Central State University has the ability, dedication and determination to produce the best graduate possible.

I want to thank my cosponsors too, if I may, Mr. Chairman. Representative Kevin Cramer, my dear good friend.

And I am a graduate of Florida A&M University.

H.R. 6020 supports the hundreds of students who have the academic propensity and acumen to not only change their future.

Well, thank you very much, Mr. Chairman.

First of all, I want to thank you, Chairman Conaway, for your dedication and for your understanding, and for your longtime support of the 1890s African American colleges and universities.

We thank you for our health and our strength. And dear Heavenly Father, we ask your special blessing to anoint this Committee room this morning...

There is a great need to increase the number of young African-Americans seeking careers in the food and agricultural sciences.

It is not incumbent for us to complete this task, but, Mr. President Lincoln, neither are we free to desist from doing all we possibly can.

I would like to just ask each of the Presidents to respond to what this bill will mean to you in terms of an enhanced role of leadership in the African American community, which is certainly badly needed.

The most important industry in the world is agriculture. It is the food we eat.

The one thing that has held the 1890s back is that they were never given the necessary resources to achieve that equality.

This is a monumental moment in the history of our African American colleges and universities, ladies and gentlemen.