I am a big fan of the McGovern-Dole Program, which has been in operation now for slightly over a decade.
I appreciate the innovation as well as the willingness to make the necessary adjustments to make the program as effectiv...
It is one of the great success stories in our foreign aid programs, especially with regard to food assistance, and we ou...
We need White House leadership to convene all the agencies and the departments together.
opening statement
I still have a lot of questions as to where all this is headed.
Improvement is code for cuts. It makes me nervous that we are going down a path that I worry could actually make hunger ...
SNAP is working, and my hope is that this Committee will look for ways to strengthen it so that we can continue to give ...
The fact is that the benefit, as Mr. Weill pointed out, is inadequate.
I can tell you when we took back that food stamp generosity, when the Recovery Act monies ran out, all of us heard from ...
But the problem is there are a lot of Members of Congress who are instinctively against SNAP because they think it creat...