Political Quotes

“This is a shameful day. The House Republican leadership has decided again to abandon all efforts to come to a bipartisan agreement on the farm bill. Instead, they've launched an attack--on the working poor, veterans, children and seniors who rely on the nutrition program--in a desperate attempt to win political points with their conservative base. After an embarrassing, chaotic defeat of their last proposal, they've decided to make a bad situation even worse. This proposal strips out the entire nutrition title, putting families and children at risk of going hungry. They made a clear choice to protect generous subsidies for agriculture corporations at the expense of the hungry and the working poor. Make no mistake: today, House Republicans are telling hungry children, food banks struggling to meet the needs of their communities, and low-income seniors who depend on food assistance that their needs don't matter. And I urge my colleagues to understand that for 180,000 Rhode Islanders who benefit from this nutrition program, they are not extraneous. This is disgraceful, it's immoral, and it's contrary to our values as a Nation. I strongly urge my colleagues to oppose this shameful proposal.”