Political Quotes

“I appreciate the gentleman's leadership on the Agriculture Committee. Really, I think sometimes we take for granted basic essentials, such as food. Normally, these programs are for people who are, for temporary reasons or economic reasons, unemployed, underemployed. We are trying to help give people a pathway to greater opportunity through job training and those types of things. But when disaster occurs, your life changes overnight. So I am very proud of the work that we do, of the fact that we are there for all of our neighbors in both rural and urban America; when they find themselves in a situation where they are dealing with loss of a home, or the loss of a place of employment, or delays of going to work, or schools being closed, that we really are in a position to be able--they shouldn't have to worry about that next warm meal. Natural disasters do come in all--we just talked a little bit about the wildfires. Certainly, Oregon also is a State that has been the scene of wildfires and, specifically, received FNS, disaster and nutrition assistance in the form of child nutrition programs, not just from the flames, but from the smoke, with advisories due to smoke advisories, qualifying air quality alerts, allowing for what we call non-congregate meal service, normally, through a summer food program, basically getting food out to those families, to those kids so that they are--you don't want to be traveling through that heavy smoke.…”