"We live in the richest country in the history of the world, and we have a big chunk of our population that doesn't know whether they can put food on the table."
"This reflects a failure of government to respond adequately."
"Charities can't do this alone."
"these so-called reforms have been put into place. But, no one in Congress is on food stamps, no one is on SNAP."
"many of these poor individuals who will be cut off are veterans, they have honorably served our country, and some of them are now deeply struggling."
"there would be 60,000 veterans, is the best estimates that we have been able to gather, that would lose their benefits."
"These people are not lazy."
"It is not a boon, it is, in fact, a very limited existence."
"SNAP is one of the most efficiently and effectively run programs in our Federal Government, with one of the lowest error rates of any program."
"The notion that we are going to impose more requirements, more hoops for people to jump through... is cruel."
"I think that would be a disaster. I think it would be catastrophic."
"Maybe we ought to be talking about raising the minimum wage to a livable wage, because the majority of people on SNAP who are able to work, work."