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Sean Reyes: “I would ask him, since when is hunger a good thing? Since when is the fact that there are children going to bed hungry…”

On the recordApril 18, 2002
I would ask him, since when is hunger a good thing? Since when is the fact that there are children going to bed hungry and going to school hungry a good thing for this country? It goes contrary to everything that we stand for. But today, Mr. Speaker, I rise in strong support of the Baca motion that instructs conferees on the Farm Security Act. The House has passed the Farm Security Act without any protection in the nutrition title for vulnerable populations, and any farm bill reauthorization would be incomplete without a well-founded nutrition title that includes a clean and simple restoration of the food stamp eligibility for legal residents; again, legal residents. I am pleased that we have united in a very bipartisan manner in an effort to restore food stamp benefits to legal residents.
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Sean Reyes
Utah
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Addressing the need for food stamp eligibility for legal residents during discussion of the Farm Security Act.

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