Political Quotes

“I thank the gentleman, who has been such a tremendous leader and head of our Hunger Caucus in the House of Representatives. Hunger in America--think of that. It ought to be a non sequitur. This is the richest country in the world, and yet one out of four of our children in this country is considered food insecure. That means that there are nights in this country when tens of thousands of children go to sleep hungry--American children. So, despite what the gentleman from Texas may say about the compassion for these children, 2 million people will be cut off of the food stamp program. Not all of them are rapists and murderers--they are children; they are senior citizens; they are people who go to work every day and yet can't afford to eat. I'm just finishing a week of living on the average food stamp, or SNAP, budget of $31.50 a week, $4.50 a day. You can spend $4.50 a day for one coffee at a Starbucks. It's not easy to live on that. That is the average food stamp benefit. It's just inconceivable to me that anyone has come to Congress with the idea that one would be willing to take food out of the mouths of hungry children--because it's not just the SNAP program. It's also school lunch programs and school breakfast programs, and 200,000 children are going to be cut off of those programs. {time} 1350 Are you kidding me? This is what we're going to do? This is what the majority is going to vote for to do in our country?…”