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Jim McGovern is a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives, representing Massachusetts's 2nd congressional district since 1997. He has been a strong advocate for issues such as hunger, human rights, and healthcare. Throughout his tenure, McGovern has focused on policies aimed at reducing food insecurity and promoting social justice. He has also been involved in various legislative efforts to improve access to healthcare for all Americans.
We want to see people eating more fresh fruits, fresh vegetables, healthy proteins, which is why we should be talking more today about the GusNIP program, about produce prescriptions, about all things that we could do to get more healthy…
I will not support any policies that result in food being taken away from Kathy, James, Don, and the many other older adults in my district who depend on SNAP to put food on their tables for their families.
I will not support legislation that takes food away from low-income households.
Leaving people hungry will not help our economy, it will not create jobs, or balance the budget.
I remain outraged that the Republicans demanded more older Americans be subject to SNAP's harsh time limits on benefits as part of the debt limit agreement.
If there is no grocery store around you, and you are buying your meals from a bodega, and you are homeless, and don't have access to hot foods, you buy what is available.
Hungry kids don't learn, and hunger and poverty are a significant driver to poor learning outcomes.
SNAP is one of the largest anti-hunger, anti-poverty initiatives in this nation.
Taking away SNAP doesn't help anyone find work. It just makes them go hungry.
Cuts to SNAP harm our nation's most vulnerable, including children, and families, and older Americans, and disabled people.
We are taking food from the poorest of the poor, we are blaming them for the debt, and we are asking nothing of the richest of the rich.
We are going to fight like hell against any cuts to this program that will increase hunger in this country.
You cut SNAP, you make more people in this country hungry, then we are against this farm bill.
The benefit is inadequate, and maybe we ought to be talking about expanding GusNIP as a way to deal with that.
My ask today for the Committee on Agriculture is simple, continue providing programs and support that are open and inclusive for all food banks to help put food on the table for the nearly 35 million Americans who live in food-insecure…
Food insecurity is real. It is besieging our urban and rural poor, grandparents on Social Security caring for grandchildren, struggling single parents, and the underemployed.
We are too big of a country, we are too great a country, to let anybody go hungry who needs help.
We Democrats stand united against any efforts to take food away from veterans, from children, or any families that are vulnerable in America.
I want to say a big thank you to President Biden's leadership, because the recent debt limit agreement included a new exemption from the time limits for our precious military veterans, for homeless people, and for children of the foster…
I think we really are plagued by this failure to recognize that we have made progress on these issues, and that we are a good and generous country to people who struggle.
The benefit is inadequate, and maybe we ought to be talking about expanding GusNIP as a way to deal with that.
This will require both Houses affirmatively to approve of an emergency, flipping the current default
I think it is important that we do more in this Subcommittee quickly, because we all want a farm bill.
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