Taking away SNAP doesn't help anyone find work. It just makes them go hungry.

we are going to fight like hell against any cuts to this program that will increase hunger in this country.

Let me just share with you why I oppose moving from the 49 years of age that we have the work requirements.

Let me be clear, my colleagues and I stand united against efforts to take food away from veterans, children, families, or any vulnerable American in the farm bill, or in any other legislation.

We are not against people going out--able-bodied going to work.

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.

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…

SNAP is one of the largest anti-hunger, anti-poverty initiatives in this nation.

Supporting food assistance for college students is an investment in opportunity, and in human potential.

That age is so important, and that is why we Democrats feel strongly in holding this age at this pattern.

I think we need to encourage opportunity, and I think we need to do that with all of our government programs.

I did need to interject that we felt like that was really where all the fat was, with trying to feed hungry people in this country to the tune of $6 a day.

Clearly, I am going to use up all of my time ranting about this, but the fact is we are here today to talk about making more cuts, to making it more restrictive, to making it more difficult, and I can't say it enough, this is the…

Despite the importance of nutrition to student success, and what I would consider increased opportunity, recent surveys estimate that as many as 30 to 40 percent of college students are impacted by food insecurity.

You cut SNAP, you make more people in this country hungry, then we are against this farm bill.

Leaving people hungry will not help our economy, it will not create jobs, or balance the budget.

Dr. Rachidi, you note in your testimony SNAP must accomplish its core goal of supporting Americans in their path out of poverty.

This will require both Houses affirmatively to approve of an emergency, flipping the current default

I ask that the United States Government continue to do all it can to secure my father's freedom.

there's no more egregious violator of human rights today than Xi Jinping.

We've shown there's bipartisan support for this cause, bicameral support. We can't let politics or the objections of a few stop us from doing what's right.

We in Congress and on this Commission will continue to call out the use of the National Security Law to criminalize the exercise of rights, and we will continue to champion the cases of political prisoners in Hong Kong.

Nothing could be further from the truth. They'll get more powerful and more dictatorial, and they'll have the means to carry it out with more impunity.

I think a big part of it is China's power, particularly its economic power.

Don't allow the Hong Kong government to whitewash its image in the international community.