Jim McGovern

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

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

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

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

The Biofuel Infrastructure Program as referred to, BIP, has been a critical aid to retailers moving higher blends of biofuels to the market.

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Strong conviction that elevating and strengthening diplomacy and development alongside defence are critical to keeping America safe.

I was a big supporter of the Double Bucks Program in the last farm bill.

I think that is something that we ought not to be doing here in Washington.

We have really good evidence from the Summer Feeding Program, the Summer EBT Program that says, additional resources improve nutrition outcomes.

It is safe to say that we all can make better choices and healthier choices, SNAP recipients and non-SNAP recipients.

I applaud your commitment to creating this comprehensive body of evidence on SNAP but as the summary report was completed without input from the Minority Members, I am writing to emphasize some of the most powerful testimony given before…

What we have been doing for close to 6 decades has been a miserable failure by every measure.

I am a believer that American farmers, the American people, American businesses can do more to open up political space in Cuba than all the saber-rattling and tough talking speeches that come out of the United States Congress.

I see ending restrictions on U.S. agricultural trade as a step in the right direction.

I believe we should lift the travel sanctions we imposed on our own citizens, and I believe we should end our unilateral trade embargo.

I strongly support normal trade relations with all countries, unless there are internationally recognized and approved sanctions against them.

Congresswoman Schakowsky, who couldn't be here, had a proposal that the committee chairs should consult with ranking members before issuing a subpoena.

Every time somebody talks about trying to overthrow the Speaker, I think: Better you than us.

I would argue with you that I am all for moments of silence, but that we have done so many moments of silence followed by nothing that they have become empty gestures.

The reason why I think you feel compelled to bring this idea to the committee is because in the greatest deliberative body in the world, we don't deliberate very much.

I think if there was a secret vote of both Democrats and Republicans who maybe are not in the Republican leadership right now, I think we would reinstate earmarks.

The idea that people here complain about that the executive has too much power, and we have just handed over to the executive the ability to determine where some of these Federal funds that we all allocate go, it never made any sense to me.

Tens of thousands of veterans might lose their benefits if Congress goes down this road.

Over 1.5 million veterans receive SNAP benefits annually, and post-9/11 veterans experience food insecurity at a rate almost double the average.