Janice Schakowsky: “Are you kidding me? Taking food out of the mouths of hungry children--is that the reason that any of us would come to…”

“Are you kidding me? Taking food out of the mouths of hungry children--is that the reason that any of us would come to Congress? But that is exactly what the farm bill that's being considered today does. It takes food out of the mouths of hungry children. Not only will 1 million children lose their SNAP funding--the money that puts food on the table--but 200,000 of them will also lose their school lunches. This in the richest country in the world? This in the name of deficit reduction? This in a country where already tens of millions of children go to sleep hungry? There's not a district in this Nation, there's not a Member of Congress who doesn't have constituents who have to line up at a food pantry because otherwise they and their children would go to sleep hungry. This is the most incredibly mean-spirited piece of legislation. I urge a ``no'' vote on the $20 billion cut in SNAP. ____________________”