"we are all for moving ahead with new advancements and technology. We want the experience for those who are the clients to be better, and we certainly do not want to have people show up at grocery stor..."
"Yes, all this is very, very interesting too, but not everybody has access to the technology that we are talking about here today."
"I just hope the budget that we enact reflects our rhetoric; because, as you are pointing out, the research that goes on at your institutions is incredibly important, but we need to do more than talk t..."
"Yes. I have to tell you, I just want to say it is important that we not only talk the talk, but walk the walk. This research is incredibly important, and we need to make sure it is funded."
"I just read the Republican budget where there is a proposal out there for a $10 billion cut in SNAP: $10 billion."
"SNAP is a vital, important program that millions of families rely on to put food on the table."
"67 percent of the people on this program are not expected to work or cannot work; they are children, they are senior citizens, they are people who are disabled."
"I am tired of the perception that somehow everybody on SNAP is lazy or doesn't want to work."
"Being poor in this country is hard work, and I would like to think that we would recognize that, and this budget that has been unveiled today does not."
"I will just say one final thing. If this is the budget and this is what we are going to see in the farm bill; a cut of $10 billion, and I think that may be a floor, not even a ceiling, then I will pre..."
"Again, in the past SNAP has accounted for $92 billion of the $104 billion in savings."
"Oftentimes work doesn't pay in our country, and we need to make work pay in our country."