"The fact is that the benefit, as Mr. Weill pointed out, is inadequate."
"I think of SNAP as providing medicine for people, because I do think food is medicine."
"I can tell you when we took back that food stamp generosity, when the Recovery Act monies ran out, all of us heard from constituents who complained that food prices didn't go down."
"I think that is an area we should be focusing attention on."
"But the problem is there are a lot of Members of Congress who are instinctively against SNAP because they think it creates dependency, when the evidence is the opposite."
"Well, thank you very much. And I want to thank the witnesses for being here."
"We need to get this right. We need to do this better."
"This is a program to make sure people do not go hungry in this country, and the benefit is inadequate."
"I think every single person in this Congress should be ashamed of that fact."
"We need to make sure that SNAP works and provides a benefit that is adequate to feed children and to feed families."
"hunger is essentially a political condition because we know what we need to do to solve it, but we, for whatever reason, don't muster the political will to do it."
"Promoting Food Security for All Children"