Katherine Clark actually said...

"It is really in our best interest. In a country like ours where we have so much, it is just wrong for students to be hungry, for children to be hungry."

"We are removing a barrier for many of them."

"I am really looking forward to working with all my colleagues to take ambitious steps to ensure that fewer children have to worry about where they are going to get their next meal."

"I wondered if you could tell me a little bit about your thinking behind that and what some of the alternatives for those programs might be."