Political Quotes

“Thank you to the gentleman from New York, the co-anchor for this Special Order hour, Representative Jeffries. I look forward to a dialogue on this, but let me just underscore what it is we are faced with in this House of Representatives. Our colleagues on the other side, the House Republicans, proposed $40 billion in food assistance cuts to low-income families over 10 years. This would affect 210,000 children who currently receive free school meals and would affect some 170,000 veterans--yes, veterans--who also depend on SNAP benefits in our country, and would cost an estimated 55,000 job cuts in just the first year of cuts alone. At a time when we should be growing the economy, adding jobs, helping our veterans, helping the poor, and those who are striving to be part of the middle class, the bill that was passed in October has these devastating cuts to children, to seniors and, yes, even to our veterans. Now, I have said before, and I will say it again, we should not be cutting the safety net for our most vulnerable while maintaining costly government subsidies for the well-off industries. That is what my colleague from New York just talked about. Littered in this farm bill are subsidies for Big Ag, some of which they themselves didn't even ask for and they know should be expiring in order for us to preserve funding for children, seniors, and veterans.…”