"Thank you very much, Chairwoman Walorski, and congratulations on chairing your first hearing of this Subcommittee."
"SNAP eligibility requirements are tough, even if you are poor, and the program has one of the lowest error rates of any Federal program. The bottom line is that SNAP works."
"Thank you, Chairwoman Jackie Walorski, Ranking Member Jim McGovern, and Members of the Subcommittee on Nutrition for the opportunity to testify on the characteristics of the population served by the S..."
"I would like to think that we all can agree that everybody who is eligible for this benefit should be able to get it, that we shouldn't be going out of our way to make it more difficult for eligible p..."
"Millionaires on SNAP. It is not a problem. We fixed it in the farm bill."
"To put it in perspective, I have a FAQ sheet here from Bread for the World, these are 2013 figures so it is probably a little bit different in 2015."
"Nobody here is arguing that we should cut SNAP, am I correct?"
"Everybody likes to get up and talk about how wonderful all you guys are, but then, what we have seen over the last few years, is Congress has shirked its responsibility."
"As a Member of Congress, I am ashamed of that fact. So I would say hunger is a political condition."
"The SNAP benefit is too low."
"If we want to talk about a reform, we ought to be talking about a benefit that actually meets the need."
"I would like to have a discussion about how we could put food banks out of business."