Jim McGovern actually said...

"Does anyone here believe that the current SNAP benefit is adequate for a family to be able to pay for the groceries they need for an entire month?"

"the whole concept of categorical eligibility was introduced basically to do what I think everybody here wants, to make these programs more user friendly and more effective and efficient."

"The people that I meet with regularly and the people who I see at food banks are not there because they want to be at food banks, it is because they have run out of money."

"I would like to think that we all can agree that everybody who is eligible for this benefit should be able to get it, that we shouldn't be going out of our way to make it more difficult for eligible p..."