Mike Conaway

You know, the freest country in the world with the most opportunity, and we are talking about poverty.

We applaud the Congress for upholding SNAP in the 2014 Farm Bill and for investing in new, innovative demonstration projects on both childhood hunger and SNAP employment and training.

Understanding SNAP's interaction with these organizations will help to maximize the effectiveness of all organizations involved.

We need to demand more of ourselves to get this right. It is a daunting task.

I believe there is a role for SNAP, but we need to have a complete, clear understanding of its mission and purpose.

Nothing could be further from the truth. We wouldn't have asked you here today to ask for your solutions and your insights if that were the case.

This government is ill suited to do what you do, to try to even remotely do it.

SNAP does not operate in a vacuum. It should not be expected to carry the entire load and provide all solutions for the most vulnerable.

We can all agree that no one ought to go hungry in America, and SNAP is essential in protecting the most vulnerable citizens during tough times. For many it is a vital lifeline to keeping food on the table.

Encouraging work is good for both recipients and taxpayers.

While we may not see eye-to-eye on all of the details, the proposals meaningfully move the needle in the right direction.

This House tomorrow will consider H.R. 36, the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, and I will support that bill because it protects most of the children in these circumstances. But I will do so with a heavy heart because it does not…

I rise again today in support of H.R. 37, the Promoting Job Creation and Reducing Small Business Burdens Act. I am especially proud of, and would like to highlight, the work of the Agriculture Committee on the titles of this bill under its…

This legislation funds the Department of Homeland Security for the remainder of the current fiscal year at $39.7 billion, an increase of $400 million compared to the FY2014 enacted level. Mr. Chair, I rise today in strong support of H.R…

I thank Mr. Neugebauer for yielding. I rise today in support of H.R. 26, a bill to extend the expiration date of the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act. I want to thank my good friend and vice chairman of the Agriculture Committee, Randy…

Yesterday, from these microphones, there was more than one occasion when my colleagues would argue that somehow giving a bonus of $1 million to the business owner or a chief executive officer of a company would somehow go untaxed; that…

I thank my colleague from Pennsylvania for allowing me to speak on his bill. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of H.R. 37, the Promoting Job Creation and Reducing Small Business Burdens Act. I am especially proud of and would like to…

I am not recorded on today's votes because I was absent to attend a funeral. Had I been present: on rollcall No. 510 on ordering the previous question, I would have voted ``aye;'' on rollcall No. 511 on H. Res. 727, I would have voted…

I thank the chairman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, first of all, I want to thank the leadership for this extended debate. This is an important conversation we should be having, and to have an unprecedented almost 6 hours of debate just…

Fully implementing the farm bill in a timely way not only fulfills a pledge to farmers and ranchers, but it honors the work that the Secretary did to help the farm bill happen.

This provision as interpreted by the Department, along with the EPA's new waters of the U.S. regulation, are just two examples of why farmers and ranchers are scared to death about the regulatory overreach of this Administration.

I maintain that farmers are our best conservationists.

Farmers were not meant to have to ask permission to exclude qualifying yields. The right is the producer's and it became the producer's right on the day the farm bill became law.

To administratively unravel what was agreed to in the legislative process would be a breach of the agreement we all worked hard together to reach.

I maintain that farmers are the best conservationists. They know their land and they know better than you or I how to keep it productive.