I don't think that these innovations would have been possible without investment from the USDA, and without a very large budget to invest.

We are strongly in favor of work rules for able-bodied adults, but... we have to make sure that we provide real opportunity and don't use the enforcement of those rules simply as a sanction policy.

We owe them a debt of gratitude for their service, not the casual slander we often see in food aid reform debates.

These jobs are paying $40,000, $60,000 a year that are going unfilled.

Kicking vulnerable people off of food assistance does nothing to help them find work. It just makes them hungry.

I will just say one final thing. If this is the budget and this is what we are going to see in the farm bill; a cut of $10 billion, and I think that may be a floor, not even a ceiling, then I will predict right here and now we will not…

President Trump's budget is reckless, and in my opinion, if it ever gets enacted, is heartless.

if they are able to work, why would they have 90 days?

Fully 51 percent of the employees on America's dairy farms are immigrant workers.

Being poor in this country is hard work, and I would like to think that we would recognize that, and this budget that has been unveiled today does not.

67 percent of the people on this program are not expected to work or cannot work; they are children, they are senior citizens, they are people who are disabled.

I support Ms. Pingree's efforts to promote and support organic agriculture, and especially her efforts to deal with the issue of food waste.

I find it unconscionable that 42 million Americans live food-insecure and hungry.

I would strongly urge the Committee to fully fund WIC at $3.36 billion.

I urge the Committee to fully fund the storage and distribution account at $100 million.

I am the primary House author of the George McGovern-Robert Dole International Food for Education and Child Nutrition Program.

I would urge the Committee, at a minimum, please do not cut this funding, continue it at the 2017 levels...

please do not do anything that will make hunger worse in our country.

I tell people all the time that hunger is a political condition. We can eliminate it.

I just read the Republican budget where there is a proposal out there for a $10 billion cut in SNAP: $10 billion.

the answer to that is yes. And there are lots of stories, but again, I will go back to this Washington Post story that I referenced in the beginning.

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it projects soft power around the world for the United States.

this negative rhetoric has real consequences, and it really needs to stop.

I think we can all agree that more needs to be done to address hunger in our country.