Rick Allen actually said...

"When you are under the kind of budget situation that we meet with our region 6 and they talk about their tightness of resources all the time, and when you come out with a rule like this that is going ..."

"I do think the SNAP program is essential to feed families, but I also know that, somehow, it needs to prime the pump and not be the pump."

"I ran on the basis that Washington was too big and it really did too much, and it really impeded the private sector from growing."

"We encourage Congress to make the Hunger Free Communities a stand-alone component of the farm bill with mandatory funding to increase the capacity of states developing innovative partnerships."