I thank Mrs. Coleman for her strong voice and for participating in tonight's Special Order hour. Mr. Speaker, I am delighted to yield to our distinguished colleague from Connecticut, Rosa DeLauro, who has been one of Congress' leading…

I thank Mrs. Coleman for her comments. She has made some very important points, and I wonder if I would pursue a couple with her before she goes, perhaps have a moment for colloquy. The first is the point she was making about the growing…

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…

I thank Congresswoman Jayapal for her terrific leadership on the SNAP program and for defending the ability of all of our families to not send their kids to bed at night hungry. That is really what this is all about. People on the SNAP…

I thank Ms. Adams for participating. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentlewoman from Texas (Ms. Jackson Lee), my distinguished colleague.

I think it's wrong that there are people who are working full time who can't support their families without SNAP benefits.

Why would someone need SNAP benefits if they're working, and they're playing by the rules, and they're going to work every day?

SNAP is, of course, America's most important antihunger program. It reduces poverty and food insecurity, and improves health and economic outcomes for more than 42 million Americans, especially children.

Were there any work requirements imposed on the big tax bill that gave hundreds of billions of dollars to wealthy investors?

How many people lost their jobs after the 2008 mortgage meltdown crisis, which accounted for a large part of the dramatic increase in people on SNAP after President Obama took office?

I agree that all able-bodied Americans should be engaged in productive work and not sitting around all day tweeting or filing bankruptcy or watching TV.

This is a program that, I think, matters to every Member of Congress. Americans in every single congressional district benefit from SNAP.

We are a people that's committed to supporting our families, but we are also a people committed to supporting one another through the ups and downs of the economy.

I have always been a champion for the right of people to organize and to have collective bargaining in the workplace.

But it is misguided for us to think of the collection of SNAP benefits as somehow opposed to work.

Americans really shouldn't care that much about this Duncan amendment if they don't go on the highway; but if you go on the highway, like hundreds of millions of Americans do, you better watch out, because this amendment makes it far more…

I am a little bit astonished that we have descended to the level of political theater and spectacle in this committee.

The totality of what the Trump administration is doing here is denying information to the American people, denying it to Congress...

I would love to see the follow through on that.

Medicaid provides comprehensive, affordable care to more than 70 million Americans regardless of their preexisting health conditions.

Mr. Chairman, thank you very much.

One dollar of an improper payment is a dollar too much, whether it is a dollar at Medicaid, or the VA, or the Pentagon.

Would you please reassure the Marylanders in St. Mary's County, and Americans generally, that you are doing everything that you can to try to tighten up the system...

97 percent of the American people want to enact a universal criminal and mental background check.

66 percent of the people want to ban military style assault weapons.