Mike Conaway

The United States has long been the leader in the fight against global hunger.

America's farmers are the most productive in the world, and without question, generate the safest and highest-quality food available.

We already have a case study of what block granting SNAP looks like. It is in the Northern Mariana Islands.

If I have one critique of the program, it is that the benefit is not adequate to meet a family's needs.

Whatever our political stripes may be, we have shared responsibilities.

I thank the gentleman for yielding. The gentleman is correct. This is a perfect example of why passage of this legislation is so important.

I thank the gentleman for yielding. It certainly is our understanding that products--and sugar is a good example of those--may come from a GE crop, but the finished product has no genetic material in it.

The American people demand that we hold government accountable for the responsible stewardship of their taxpayer dollars.

Ultimately, hunger is a political condition.

At the heart of that plan would be strengthening SNAP, and other anti-hunger programs, helping families put food on the table.

What we really need is a national conversation about how we can better tackle hunger in this country.

Throughout this process, we have had an eye towards strengthening SNAP so that it doesn't become a trap, but rather a tool to help individuals move up the economic ladder.

Under his leadership, THI thinks outside the box to develop and implement true public-private partnerships with all levels of government and types of community-based organizations to reduce hunger in Texas and beyond.

How do we make sure that the folks who perpetrated that problem... are not dealing with those folks again 2 years later?

We know that work is the best way to help individuals climb the economic ladder, and we must ensure that our policies reward that work.

We need another round of welfare reform so that we can actually have a safety net pulling people from poverty, from welfare, into work, into a better life.

I fear it is shortsighted to charge ahead with efforts to transition Title II into a program virtually indistinguishable from the cash assistance programs already provided for by the Foreign Assistance Act.

It is now my pleasure to yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Yoho).

It is now my pleasure to yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Iowa (Mr. King), who has worked really hard on this particular piece of legislation.

It is my pleasure to yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. David Scott), the ranking member on the Commodity Exchanges, Energy, and Credit Subcommittee.

I would like to clarify. We do not import chicken from China, period. And the economic impact estimated for the State of Maine will be something on the order of $74 million every single year in imports that won't happen. Mr. Speaker, I…

I don't oppose the amendment. It does improve the bill. We appreciate that. I am looking forward to supporting the amendment. I would also expect support on the underlying bill itself. We have had a good discussion on why this bill is the…

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Throughout this process we have had an eye toward strengthening SNAP so that it doesn't become a trap, but rather a tool to help individuals move up the economic ladder.

The WTO must now work to right that wrong by being vigilant and wary in regard to Brazil's latest saber rattling.