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On the recordMay 9, 2018
Three-quarters of SNAP benefits go to families: households with children in them. That should be what people think of when they think of the SNAP program. We heard a lot today in the Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing that was referenced earlier, basically about lazy people sitting around. I tried to alter the image a little bit. I said: You can have lazy people who get a paycheck in public housing and they spend all day watching TV, tweeting, and filing for bankruptcy. You have lazy people in the middle class. You have rich lazy people and you have poor lazy people.
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Jamie Raskin
Democratic · Maryland
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govinfo.gov
May 9, 2018

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