Jim McGovern

SNAP is an important program that deserves our support.

It will be a missed opportunity on our part if we do not reauthorize them before they expire.

Access to SNAP helps people move their lives forward faster.

I will not support any farm bill that guts the nutrition safety net for millions of Americans.

The fact of the matter is, is that 3/4 of SNAP households with at least one working-age, non-disabled adult work while receiving SNAP.

The reality is that the stigma starts with the rhetoric that comes out of this place, out of the Capitol.

The USDA's Economic Research Service put out a report in March predicting an up to five percent increase in food prices this year.

I would fight that tooth and nail. I mean, that is just inappropriate.

The majority of people who are eligible to work who are on SNAP actually do work.

The average SNAP benefit before all of these adjustments was about $1.40 per person per meal.

I find that, to be honest with you, offensive.

Thank you to Secretary Vilsack, thank you to President Biden for stepping up during this pandemic and providing additional assistance

It is an indication--and I want to close on this note--on what we can do in this incredible country of ours when we work together on a bipartisan basis.

I think, while we have not discussed it too much this morning, tapping into the Bill Emerson Humanitarian Trust is one step that could have an immediate impact.

We have discussed this morning how the catastrophic events that have taken place as a result of Russia's invasion of Ukraine without reason.

I want to close by thanking the panelists on both halves of the panel for so clearly articulating the key issues.

The past 2 years have made clear that our globally integrated food system has some cracks.

I believe it is a moral obligation of leading nations to provide assistance to countries in need, and there are certainly many people who need help.

The past 2 years have made it clear that our global integrated food system has some cracks.

I think a concomitant view, I believe, that we share is a moral obligation to provide assistance to countries in need.

I believe that--and I have had conversations and I suspect many of my colleagues have with the Secretary of Agriculture and folks in the USDA.

I've been known to say that food security is national security and that linkage has never seemed stronger that it is today.

Americans still lead global donations and share a bounty through the farm bill programs.

We are going to have to look at other resources with the Commodity Credit Corporation and others to provide funding to optimize American farmers and ranchers.

I have signed on to a letter with many of my agricultural colleagues requesting that the USDA and the USAID use resources available in Bill Emerson's Humanitarian Trust to help address food insecurity.