06/16/2015
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"It is still deplorable that my constituents face hunger every single day."
"Those kinds of incentives can be very counter-productive, and create exactly the opposite intent, of innovation and productive reform."
"SNAP benefits processing has fallen by 23 percent, and this is a design as part of reforming the program: 20,000 lost their food benefits."
"What we need is a clearinghouse to be able to highlight best practices, but we also need to talk very candidly about ways that we can sew up some of the holes in the social safety net."