We should use the farm bill to direct USDA to be a better partner to farmers practicing perennial agriculture.

I encourage the Committee to protect the much needed adjustments that were made to the Thrifty Food Plan.

It is really wonderful to be able to talk about key priorities.

As all the Members of Congress, I hear lots and lots of negative feedback on our constituent service.

Even--I have one of the wealthiest districts in the country, Northern Virginia, and yet there are huge pockets of poverty.

The money is there, the resources are there, we are an extraordinarily wealthy nation, but they tend to be concentrated in a few places.

What if you didn't have to have transfer payments because we paid people a living wage?

I think we have to recognize that there is a balance there between the enormous advantages to having a mother stay home.

There have been a number of Republican amendments already to make SNAP benefits ever harder to access.

This lack of sovereignty--the sovereignty thing is the emptiest issue I have ever seen.

This is the greatest misunderstanding of what this legislation does that I have ever seen.