I am a former food stamp recipient. So personally, I am deeply disturbed by these proposals, because I know what this means for people who are living on the edge.

What is worse, many of these children are forced to go hungry for unpaid school meals, which is just plain wrong.

I am concerned and I worry that this will disproportionately impact working families with children trying to climb out of poverty.

What this witness just said, I don't understand then why, by your own analysis, 1 million children are going to lose their automatic benefits to free meals based on your presentation.

I want to recognize my appreciation for the Senator from Georgia, who has expressed a good-faith, earnest desire to work with me on this legislation. I want very badly to get this passed. It needs to pass. I want to talk for a few minutes…

I ask unanimous consent that the Judiciary Committee be discharged from further consideration of H.R. 1044 and that the Senate proceed to its immediate consideration. I ask unanimous consent that the Lee amendment, No. 939, be agreed to…

I care deeply about rising income inequality in our country and have been working on it for many years.

So giving a tax cut like we just did has a racially disparate impact because of the huge tax cut we gave from which people of color did not benefit when you look at who got that huge part of the tax cut.

Since the 70s, economic growth for middle class and low income workers has only risen actually by one-third while income for the top 1 percent has tripled.

This is why we cannot have a regional minimum wage. A regional minimum wage would have such a huge racial disparate impact it would border on being just outright racist because it singles out black women and women of color to not be…

So analyzing policies in that way, the decline in union density has been most dramatic among black workers, and the lack of access to union membership has been most detrimental to black workers who disproportionately live in right-to-work…

The moment, I think, has come to study and look at what reparations mean.

And I am going to suggest to this Committee that the next time we have a hearing on economic inequality we add 'racial.' We have to say economic and racial inequality. Otherwise we are missing it.

It is vitally important because at the root it is being blind when we make policies across the board on many issues, and the effect of many policies that on the face appear race neutral. They are not.

We cannot talk about income inequality without talking about racial inequality.

I reserve the right to object after raising a couple of observations. It is important to know that this bill was passed by the House of Representatives Thursday night. We just received the paperwork from the House of Representatives…

there is a quote that has long been attributed to St. Augustine, who, during his conversion to Christianity, famously uttered a prayer: Lord, help me be chaste. Grant me chastity, but not yet. The idea behind this is as old as human nature…

I foresee some very difficult issues that these children are going to face as a result of the trauma that they have experienced.

I have witnessed at least my mother and other senior citizens, the health benefits of cannabis.

One hundred percent do.

But you can recommend.

the harm that we are inflicting on them and on these families may be irreparable, and that we have a role in that as the U.S. Government.

But you don't have mental health professionals that have an expertise in trauma-related psychotherapy to help 100 percent of these children.

So it is time for you all to speak out and say something, that they should be banned for the list of reasons you just enunciated.

Can you get back to us in writing who has the authority to rescind the MOA?