Continuing to fund this program at at least $5 million a year would allow awardees to continue this all important work.

The bottom line is, we learned that SNAP works.

the State Department, USAID, Millennium Challenge Corporation, Peace Corps and other development agencies are critical to preventing conflict and reducing the need to put our men and women in uniform in harm's way.

We shouldn't change its entitlement structure. We shouldn't cut it.

As a Member of Congress, I am ashamed of that fact, and I think it has to become a bigger priority.

Just a $30 increase in monthly SNAP benefits for households leads to healthier eating and lower rates of food insecurity.

I opposed the Republican budget resolution because it was not a serious document, it targeted American families and their healthcare.

Hunger is a political condition. We can solve this problem if we had the political will.

Efforts to convert SNAP into a block grant program would be catastrophic.

We must invest in both defense and domestic priorities and reject the Faustian bargain that would fund one and not the other to the ultimate detriment of both.

National security should mean the quality of life for our citizens.

Listen to the representatives of the Veterans of Foreign Wars who have spent the week visiting Members' Capitol Hill offices to deliver the message that sequestration 'is the most significant readiness and national security threat of the…

Do not balance the budget on the backs of America's poor and struggling working families.

After a media campaign by me and some strong action by the State Department and my Congressman Al Green, the Chinese Consulate legalized our evidence so that it could be used at trial.

Feedback to me from the China Consulate in Houston has been that they don't think Sandy is a spy, but they can't help in a case involving State Security.

I have asked the China Foreign Ministry, the Municipal Government of Shenzhen, and Shenzhen Public Security to provide evidence of Sandy's substantial meritorious service to China.

We seek to work with this Committee to ensure expeditious and effective implementation of the additional funding, especially the resources directly appropriated to Food for Peace.

This population doesn't fit into a stereotype or a neat generalization. It is a complicated population.

Yes. I have to tell you, I just want to say it is important that we not only talk the talk, but walk the walk. This research is incredibly important, and we need to make sure it is funded.

Oftentimes work doesn't pay in our country, and we need to make work pay in our country.

Well, that is a problem. And so what happened to those shoppers in Louisiana who went with their SNAP cards and were told that they couldn't purchase their food?

Finding $10 billion worth of cuts in SNAP is a terrible thing to do, and it is going to make people's lives more difficult.

We need to maintain the structure of SNAP, increase SNAP benefits, and boost our anti-hunger safety net.

I would just, again, I end as I began, to caution this Committee and this Congress from doing anything that would make it more difficult for this population.

Our members understand the importance of border security, and enforcement, and support that, but along with that has to come a system of legal status for workers on our farms.