Of those who are not working, the population is very complicated, and it includes returning veterans, it includes people who are chronically homeless, people who have undiagnosed mental illnesses.

Yes, all this is very, very interesting too, but not everybody has access to the technology that we are talking about here today.

The notion that we would even entertain cutting SNAP by $10 billion, to me, goes against everything that I heard today in terms of how we ought to be approaching this issue.

The challenge is to make sure the resources are there so that they can be widespread.

I believe we ought to be asking the question how do you end hunger in this country.

I just hope the budget that we enact reflects our rhetoric; because, as you are pointing out, the research that goes on at your institutions is incredibly important, but we need to do more than talk the talk, I mean we need to make sure…

Extreme poverty and hunger leads to chaos and war and conflict. This is where terrorists go to find recruits.

So the McGovern-Dole Program is a really smart and important program.

I want to say that whatever you do in reauthorization, that essential responsiveness of the program needs to be preserved.

Too much rhetoric has been focused on criticizing the SNAP program and impugning the character of SNAP recipients.

the potential for job growth over the next decade in the U.S. agribusiness and farm growth is very clear.

System integration with Medicaid and multiple other programs is absolutely critical.

Yes, that is obviously unacceptable. Typically we have people who are on SNAP who are working, who have families, who are trying to juggle a million different things.

SNAP cannot be an ATM machine for other priorities.

A group of homeless men and women receive meals from volunteers on May 18 in Morgantown, West Virginia.

I commend Chairman Conaway and Ranking Member Peterson in their recent communication to the House Budget Committee, requesting that the Committee consider the current economic conditions within rural communities and the significant…

I just have this kind of radical idea that that kind of stuff is good for us.

We need to be very careful in this Committee before we start going down a road that may end up adversely impacting many Americans.

$990 million in emergency famine relief, including $300 million for Food for Peace in war-torn South Sudan, Somalia, Yemen and Nigeria, was recently included in the FY17 omnibus bill.

It is heartless. It is reckless. It is self-defeating, and it is stupid.

What baffles me about the White House proposal is it attempts to gut a program that is working.

Helping farmers feed their families and have enough to sell on the local market will help their communities thrive.

We are the richest country in the history of the world, and 42 million of our fellow citizens are hungry or food-insecure.

don't even think of separating the nutrition title from the farm bill. That would be a huge mistake, and if it is done, I guarantee you there will be no farm bill.

There should be no shame in using taxpayer dollars to buy American food from American farmers to send overseas.