Dusty Johnson

I don't have a problem with whistleblowers. I really don't.

We have to find a way to make sure that hungry people can eat all of the time.

I take hunger very seriously, because I know what hunger does to children.

We need this program, and we need this program to be effective.

This gentleman told the truth. He didn't commit a single act of fraud. All he did was tell the truth in the application.

Now, there are allegations seemingly every day on the floor of the House that my party doesn't authentically care about poor people.

I am interested in working with you to root out waste, fraud, and abuse wherever it is.

Let's be honest. We all know that most people are really honest and that some people, a minority, will take advantage of any program.

Ninety-nine percent of them will continue to qualify or be eligible for that program.

We need the SNAP program, and we need it to be effective.

There are times when broad-based categorical eligibility is, frankly, an embarrassment.

First off, we should be clear that it is the law of the land in my understanding since the 1996 Welfare Act that able-bodied SNAP recipients should work.

I am introducing the Farm and Ranch to School bill, which would allow for a greater portion of that budget to be used on locally sourced beef, bison, and other meats.

I don't think that holding people accountable is punishment. I think it is a hallmark of a responsible society.

I know I am not lazy. I know I grew up as a poor boy in South Dakota, I know my life is better because I was held accountable by parents, by teachers, by the laws and regulations and rules of a society.

Evidence is powerful and data can light our way forward.

Work does that, and if a couple of things came out loud and clear that there is basis for agreement, it is first off that people who can work, should work.

No, absolutely, and I think that is what is concerning about the way the waivers operate right now...

That is not leadership. And so, let's work with SNAP recipients. Let's work with this Subcommittee. Let's work with the Administration to move even more people from welfare to work.

The term able-bodied, as we have talked about, is so key to this discussion, and I want to make sure that we are working to empower and not stigmatize the ABAWD population.

Third, that work and education are a critically important, a necessary part of helping people realize opportunities to move out of poverty.

Second, that SNAP is an important poverty program. That is something worth maintaining, something worth holding up.

For me, an important foundation of all of this Subcommittee's work on nutrition is, first, that we all want to improve the lives of Americans who are facing hard times.

I rise this evening to request unanimous consent that the Committee on the Judiciary be discharged from any further consideration of H.R. 962, the Born-Alive Abortion Survivor Protection Act, and I ask that it be taken up for immediate…

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