On the recordMay 9, 2018
Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman from Minnesota (Mr. Ellison) very much. He makes an excellent point which is, more than two-thirds of SNAP participants are in families with children, and in the majority of those, you have at least one working adult in the house. {time} 1700 So despite efforts to portray this as some kind of welfare, we are talking about millions of Americans who are working but still can't afford to feed their families. That is what the SNAP program is about. It is about helping working families meet the basic nutritional standards of our people. We are the richest society in the history of the world, and we can certainly support working families, through the SNAP program, to benefit from the great bounty that is the agricultural output of the United States of America, which is the breadbasket of the world. Mr. Speaker, I yield now to our colleague from California, Nanette Barragan. I thank Ms. Barragan very much for joining us.
