Sanford Bishop

Shifting services from public to private contractors shifts the incentives and it eliminates program expertise.

No person, let alone a child, should be subject to that type of ridicule and embarrassment.

Even with these additional benefits, Puerto Rican households barely manage to receive comparable benefits as compared to the households in the 50 States.

These SNAP-proposed rules are just unconscionable to me.

I believe that everyone has the right to healthy and nutritious food.

The Department's own analysis is that the rule will drop 9 percent of the current recipients from the rolls.

I am very troubled by the Administration's proposed broad-based categorical eligibility rule.

Having anyone go hungry is inexcusable in the world's wealthiest Nation.

It admits that the rule may negatively impact food security among people who do not meet the proposed income and resource eligibility requirements.

Although this is welcome news, we still have to be vigilant and ensure that this important benefit remains available to our most vulnerable citizens.

I am pleased to report that the language was successfully added to the fiscal year 2020 Labor-HHS Appropriations bill in an amendment that was offered as a manger's amendment by Chairwoman DeLauro.

I sent a letter to Representative Rosa DeLauro... opposing this change.

Ending Medicaid coverage for non-emergency medical transportation would literally have been a matter of life and death for many of these individuals.

I am hopeful that the legislation will be considered quickly by this subcommittee for inclusion in the extenders package by the end of the year.

I look forward to working with all of you in the days, weeks, and months ahead to ensure that these important transportation services are protected now and into the future.

Representative Sanford Bishop called it a crisis that does not exist.

As the designee of Chair Lowey, I move to strike the last word. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Georgia is recognized for 5 minutes.

I appreciate my colleague's longtime support for fair trade practices for our livestock and for our poultry farmers. I have worked on this issue over the years with the gentlewoman, and I, too, share her concerns regarding the GIPSA rules…

I rise as the designee of Chairwoman Lowey, and I move to strike the last word. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Georgia is recognized for 5 minutes.

The amendment would bring the total funding for the program to $75 million in our bill. This program provides grants to encourage and improve telemedicine and distance learning services in rural areas through telecommunications and other…

I urge that this amendment be rejected. Madam Chair, I yield back the balance of my time. The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Indiana (Mr. Banks). The question was taken; and the Acting Chair…

At this time, I ask my colleagues to join me in support of this amendment. Madam Chair, we have no more speakers, and I yield back the balance of my time.

The amendments included in the en bloc were made in order by the rule, and they have been agreed to by both sides. They improve the bill. I support the amendment, and I urge its adoption. Madam Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.

The bill funds the Commodity Futures Trading Commission at $315 million, a historic, necessary, and long overdue increase. I am pleased that this bill provides funding for several new programs that were authorized in the 2018 farm bill…

Until the Midwest floods struck, the U.S. Department of Agriculture was fairly confident that the Emergency Watershed Protection Program needs were fully met with the $125 million that was in the bill. However, on April 25, the USDA…