Jim McGovern

It should have been a unanimous vote.

The American people deserve the truth.

Clearly, Kevin McCarthy is afraid to death of Donald Trump, and that’s pathetic.

He’s either a worse negotiator than Donald Trump, getting everything he wants and then walking away, or he’s a coward.

Kevin McCarthy got basically everything he wanted.

We need to proceed anyway.

It’s insulting to the American people who expect us, you know, to respect our democratic institutions and to respect elections.

We have some Members of Congress who are basically saying that what happened, what we all experienced, what we saw didn't really happen. I mean, enough. And I've had it.

We need this White House conference to look at this issue holistically to be able to address the challenges that Jean just outlined and we can do this. We can end hunger in our country.

Thank God that we have a president who recognizes we have a hunger problem in this country.

But the bottom line is if government is not there to help solve this problem then, you know, I don`t know what good government is.

This crisis is much more serious than people who don’t go hungry believe it to be.

The people who are hungry, who are dealing with hunger, deserve respect. They deserve dignity.

We can end hunger in this country. So please join me in this effort.

Hunger is real, but it is also a solvable problem. That is what makes it so frustrating.

We have a hunger problem in this country. There is not a congressional district in America that is hunger-free.

Ending hunger is something that we as Americans can do, and it absolutely should be a bipartisan effort.

I consider both of them incredible partners in the fight to end hunger, and I appreciate their advocacy for policies that will help alleviate and ultimately end hunger once and for all.

There is a cost to hunger. There is a cost to the status quo.

I am proud to say that I have worked with this coalition since day one.

The majority of those who are able-bodied who can work are working, and they still earn so little they qualify for SNAP.

If you are hungry, you can't focus. A worker who is hungry, they are not productive in the workforce.

I appreciate, too, the fact that everybody is always reminding us that a lot of the people who are hungry in this country work.

There is no one committee that deals with hunger here, and there is no one committee that deals with nutrition here in Congress.

I think if we are going to move forward, we need to hear from those with lived experiences.