"We can't come to the end of this and have so many more people of color falling into the--not even into the ranks of the poor but into the ranks of those who are hungry."
"We have got to figure out how we can sustain this and keep people from--keep more people from going hungry through this period."
"We had a problem, a hunger problem in America before COVID. We have a hunger problem now."
"I think one of the issues, there may be areas of low unemployment. But with people of color, you have high unemployment."
"I really applaud your administration--our administration for continuing to suspend the 3-month time limit on SNAP benefits for unemployed adults without dependents."
"Thank you for this hearing, very important hearing to get this information out to the public; so many layers to unpeel with this."
"Are there challenges that you have identified? And just how are we doing in meeting the goals of that assessment?"
"Here we have, again, the COVID crisis, which has killed 210,000 people, 30 million people are unemployed, seven million have contracted the virus. And so the Biden Paris plan is very clear. It's very ..."
"I think Senator Harris is going to directly talk to the American people. She's going to talk about how the Biden-Harris team will first of all take on this pandemic day one. Secondly, how she's going ..."
"Barbara Lee, still serving, gave an incredible speech."
"We're going to pass the Delivering for America Act. And we're going to put $25 billion -- at least the House is going to do this, which the Board of Governors -- the poster Board of Governors asked fo..."