Under the Obama administration, SNAP recipients went from 28 million to 44 million. That is a 64 percent increase.

This is about hope, not judgment. This is about being able to help families and people find a way to fulfill their God-given gifts and skills and talents, with which we are all uniquely created.

When we put up roadblocks--to me, that is a travesty--to be able to encourage and to motivate people back into the work force.

This legislation would save taxpayer money and bring needed accountability to the Federal agencies.

Let's use this hearing to ensure IT modernization across the Federal Government continues, even with more force and strength, in 2018.

Families are the building blocks of communities. It is hard to imagine anything more disruptive to a family than losing a parent or a spouse to incarceration.

Thank you and Mr. Heyer and all those who have just bulldogged this thing where you refuse to allow injustice to continue to permeate, even in the halls of this government.

If that's accurate, I don't have any reason right now that it's not, I'm just hearing it from one of our staff people. To say that we would have some concern would be accurate. That would be Trump. For me to act like it's not a concern…

We stand for synagogues, temples, churches.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

I am not sure we have arrived at that.