Jackie Walorski

For them, an increase in the price of food means foregoing other needed purchases.

The H-2A process, which is for legal labor, is broken.

The answers are going to be done at the local level.

Effective farm policies keep prices affordable and stable for consumers.

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I rise in strong support of the Modernizing the Interstate Placement of Children in Foster Care Act. This bill will reduce the amount of time kids wait to be adopted, placed with relatives…

I think the American people look at this, as I do, as a very dangerous precedent; that we are looking at potentially bringing these terrorists with blood on their hands that have already killed Americans back to this soil, which I think is…

May be making a profit? May be providing food to rural areas? This isn't corporate this is small business.

Are you looking at either rolling that back or letting us know what reality means as to why USDA is looking at ownership?

Today's EPA has become a punitive revenue generator for big government.

I just wanted to say how thrilled I am to hear that you have made the transition to the concept of running on principle and not just necessarily on the bureaucratic rules in the VA.

I sincerely thank Chairwoman Walorski, Ranking Member McGovern, and Members of the Subcommittee for providing me with the opportunity to share our lessons learned from the field.

I look forward to working with the Subcommittee, and my colleagues, to build on the momentum FINI has established...

No one program can end hunger, poverty, or obesity. It takes collaboration within communities, and a 360 approach, to address these issues.

It's easy to think of malnutrition only in terms of the quantity of food intake: Is someone eating enough?

Government programs like SNAP, or the Woman, Infants, and Children, or WIC, aren't going to end the obesity epidemic alone.

The effort to incentivize more nutritious purchases by low-income families began organically, typically involving private-sector donations or local funding.

It is easy to think of malnutrition only in terms of a quantity of food intake, is someone eating enough? But there is another crucial element that we can't overlook when discussing malnutrition, and that is the nutrition itself.

Under SNAP, they're treated under a one-size-fits-all model.

This change provides a workforce alignment. It actually brings business and industry to the table so that when we provide training, at the end of the day it is not just completing education, it is a family-sustaining job that is there.

Everyone; the Federal Government, state governments, not-for-profits, the private sector, researchers, and recipients themselves, have a role to play in lifting Americans out of poverty and up the economic ladder.

Many of our poverty programs have almost been like anesthesia; it is meant to make you feel more comfortable living in poverty versus providing an off ramp.

I feel like we are pushing upstream because the whole country is eating and doing the things that we are trying to tell a very small group of people not to do.

I chair the Committee's Nutrition Subcommittee, which has been heavily involved in this review.

Seniors, veterans, and active-duty military families each have unique needs.

We are all in this together. Everybody is a shareholder.