I just want to say to my friend that able- bodied work has always been in the farm bill. What has changed by this bill is that it takes away the opportunities for Governors to request a waiver when their unemployment rate is very high. Madam Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman from New Mexico (Ms. Lujan Grisham), another member of the Agriculture Committee.
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We are requesting more funding for senior housing as well as we are asking communities, mayors and cities in particular, to use their--it is called section 108, but it is a loan function that they can use to also assist.
We estimate that just from the reduction in the mortgage insurance premium, we are going to help 850,000 people over the next year.
I will not support taking food assistance away from low-income households, period.
If the proposed Republican cuts go into effect, Madam Secretary, they will impact my district that is composed of thousands of hard working class families that are in that same scale where one paycheck away from being homeless.
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