"Moving down a pathway to reduce the benefit, or somehow re-imagine this whole program is not a good idea."
"Food safety is a big issue, and my experience has been is that small and medium-sized farms get it."
"There is an agricultural renaissance occurring, which is really exciting."
"We ought to have a Veterans Farmer Market Nutrition Program to better connect veterans and healthy foods at VA clinics."
"I speak to high schools, and usually at the end I always ask people what do you want to do? How many want to be in Congress? Nobody."
"opening statement"
"Well, Speaker Ryan and Republican presidential candidates gave us the answer last Saturday at their so-called forum on poverty in South Carolina, and I have to say that I am deeply troubled."
"We have known for a long time that Speaker Ryan supports block-granting SNAP. We have seen it year after year in his budgets."
"But if that is where all of this is going, that is bad news for poor people, and it is bad news for the vulnerable populations that our witnesses here today represent."
"Simply put, SNAP is working."
"Block-granting SNAP is a bad idea, period."
"If we have any function in this Congress, it ought to be to making sure that the least among us are not forgotten."