Political Quotes

“Last year, in Hurricane Harvey, many in my community became food insecure. I cannot tell you how important maintaining the current SNAP benefits are. I thank the chairman from Texas and my good friend, to-be chairman from Minnesota, for their coming together. The importance of funding going to my land grant colleges is enormous in training new farmers. The work that is being added--as a member of the Homeland Security Committee--on adding broadband in the rural communities is something that is so dearly needed and has been promised for many, many years. The fact that we are expanding access to FSA farm loans for veterans, but, more importantly, for beginning farmers, creates a new pathway for those who are providing for us as the breadbasket of the world. And then, in the rural areas of my district, rural economic development is crucial, and the rural development funds are vital. So many things have been able to occur because of this funding. I ask my colleagues to support this bill because this is a perfect coming together. As former Congresswoman Shirley Chisolm said: A tree grows in Brooklyn. It is a good coming together of urban and rural supporting a dynamic bill and providing so that Americans are not food insecure and our children have the nutrition that they need. Let us vote for this bill.”