"the answer to that is yes. And there are lots of stories, but again, I will go back to this Washington Post story that I referenced in the beginning."
"The SNAP program is one of the most efficiently, effectively run programs in the Federal Government."
"When you cut this program, what you are doing is you are taking food away from people."
"Finding $10 billion worth of cuts in SNAP is a terrible thing to do, and it is going to make people's lives more difficult."
"The notion that we would even entertain cutting SNAP by $10 billion, to me, goes against everything that I heard today in terms of how we ought to be approaching this issue."
"Of those who are not working, the population is very complicated, and it includes returning veterans, it includes people who are chronically homeless, people who have undiagnosed mental illnesses."
"A group of homeless men and women receive meals from volunteers on May 18 in Morgantown, West Virginia."
"This is a lousy and rotten thing to do to poor people. They look at SNAP as an ATM to pay for their other priorities."
"I find it unconscionable that 42 million Americans live food-insecure and hungry."
"I urge the Committee to protect the structure of the program, which is our Nation's first line of defense against hunger."
"I would strongly urge the Committee to fully fund WIC at $3.36 billion."
"I urge the Committee to fully fund the storage and distribution account at $100 million."