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William Helms: “I say this as a Senator who has been here for almost 23 years, as a Senator who has served as chairman of the Senate…”

On the recordSeptember 11, 1995
I say this as a Senator who has been here for almost 23 years, as a Senator who has served as chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee, during which time I did my best to crack down on the abuse of the Food Stamp Program. I recall getting the inspectors general to conduct a pilot program in a number of States, and I specified that my State be first, the State of North Carolina. The inspectors went to cities like Fayetteville and Wilmington, Laurel Hill and Durham, Charlotte and High Point, Winston-Salem, Greensboro and Asheville. Everywhere they went, they found terrific fraud in the Food Stamp Program. That is the reason I am offering this amendment today.
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William Helms
Republican · New Jersey
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Addressing concerns about fraud in the Food Stamp Program during Senate floor debate.

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