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

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

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

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

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

It is wet in farm country. In fact, our corn planting is so far behind that many South Dakota producers aren't quite sure how they are going to feed the 5 million cattle that are in our State. Now, these producers don't want a new…

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

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

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 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.

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

In the 1960s, South Dakota's Ben Reifel became the first Lakota Indian to represent our country in Congress. He grew up dirt poor in a log cabin. He dropped out after the eighth grade, later going on to graduate from South Dakota State and…

In 1961, South Dakota's Ben Reifel became our Nation's first Lakota Indian in Congress. He grew up dirt poor in a log cabin in rural Todd County. He dropped out after eighth grade but later graduated from South Dakota State and from…

I am honored to be a part of this Special Order tonight. I want to highlight the dire situation in my home State of South Dakota. Our State is just barely beginning to recover from dramatic flooding while, simultaneously, we are trying to…

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

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.

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.

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

Evidence is powerful and data can light our way forward.

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.

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

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.

If the unanimous consent cannot be entertained, I would then urge the Speaker and the majority leader to immediately---- The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman has not been recognized for debate. ____________________

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…