On the recordJune 3, 2013
And so a lot of times when these programs get talked about, the various acronyms, billions of dollars here and billions of dollars there--waste, fraud, and abuse I know gets brought up oftentimes as kind of the red herring in the room in a lot of our committee hearings--but really the reality is there's a face behind each one of these programs. There's real people depending on them--as you indicate, the 250,000 children who would lose free and reduced-cost lunches. How is a child supposed to learn if they're hungry? How are they supposed to focus if they haven't been able to see a doctor or see a dentist? These are real issues that are facing this Congress. And I know a lot of times, again, those on the other side somehow want to make this out to be more than what it is on people, and how it affects people.
