John J. Faso

Nobody--nobody--should ever, ever go to work and not come home.

It is with great respect that I rise today to recognize the distinguished career of Mr. Sam Pollak on the occasion of his retirement. Mr. Pollak is retiring after 20 years of dedicated service to the Oneonta and Otsego County community as…

This is the critical ingredient that we need to drive home to the American consumer as to the importance of modernization of these rules, because it provides more predictability and stability to prices here for our consumers, our…

I thank Chairman Simpson for this confirmation. I urge my colleagues to support this important bill.

Today I rise to congratulate the Sergeant Andrew Brucher Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 5419, located in Kauneonga Lake, New York, which will soon be celebrating its 50th anniversary. At the anniversary dinner, the post will honor two very…

And what is the consequence if New York doesn't comply with the regulations?

It is vitally important that we stand up on this Fourth of July, not just for democracy here in the United States, but for democracy in other parts of the world as people are struggling. Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleagues, and Happy Fourth…

I appreciate Mr. Collins' strong support. As a former county executive in Erie County, you had that experience of having to write the check every month to Albany for a program and services that you had no control over. I very much…

I encourage my colleagues to support this bipartisan legislation so that we can help improve outcomes for some of our Nation's most vulnerable individuals. {time} 1545

I hope you will take this back to the Administration and to the President and tell them it is vitally important that we have a stream of workers who can come into the country and perform these seasonal tasks.

I have always thought it is unusual that the same USDA that says you can't sell whole milk or flavored milk, or have it in a lunch program, allows us to purchase $3 billion of soda in the SNAP program.

The issue to me is U.S. manufacturing. We have clearly a skills gap in our country.

We never want that sickening scenario to occur in this country.

We strongly support the Organic Farmer and Consumer Protection Act introduced by Representative Faso.

Here is the crux of the matter, it seems to me, that the public is oftentimes very frustrated by what they perceive to be the abuse of the system.

Maybe a means by which we could perhaps bridge some of the Republican-Democrat philosophical divide would be to actually take savings, if they accrue, and plow them into those kind of efforts.

There is no doubt that I hear from food pantries and others that the need and the demand for their services are more significant now than they have been in recent years.

It is really important that we nourish and allow to prosper this thriving agricultural sector, these small processors, new processors, a lot of young farmers coming in.

SNAP is an efficient and effective program. It alleviates hunger and poverty and has positive impacts on the long-term outcomes of those who receive its benefits.

My point would be that we have these wonderful academic researchers and experts. Perhaps we could design a study that was statistically valid and which would consider the difficulty that the food merchants have, but also get to the core of…

I represent a district in the Catskills in Mid-Hudson Valley in Upstate New York, and I can tell you I have talked to dozens of dairy farmers and not a single one of them thinks the Margin Protection Program works.

Well, I look forward to working with the gentleman from Georgia, and I look forward to working with all of my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to try to fix what is wrong with our country today, to improve on what we already have, and…