Bernie Sanders

The United States of America cannot be complicit in this mass slaughter of children.

Thank you, Senator Sanders.

No senior in America should be left hungry or isolated.

As Senator Sanders likes to say, Meals on Wheels for an entire year for the equivalent of roughly 1 day in the hospital or 10 days in a nursing home.

Importantly, and this is maybe the main point of today, about 45 percent of funding from the Older Americans Act is used to provide meals to millions of frail and isolated seniors.

In my view, both from a moral and from an economic perspective, we cannot turn our backs on the millions and millions of seniors who are hurting and who desperately need our help today.

The Older Americans Act provides Federal funding for many essential services for our Nation's seniors.

Thank you, Senator Sanders.

I would like to extend a special thanks to Chairman Sanders for his leadership on the OAA.

I appreciate the chance to share how the OAA improves the lives of senior citizens.

No senior in America should be left hungry or isolated.

As Senator Sanders likes to say, Meals on Wheels for an entire year for the equivalent of roughly 1 day in the hospital or 10 days in a nursing home.

Importantly, and this is maybe the main point of today, about 45 percent of funding from the Older Americans Act is used to provide meals to millions of frail and isolated seniors.

In my view, both from a moral and from an economic perspective, we cannot turn our backs on the millions and millions of seniors who are hurting and who desperately need our help today.

The Older Americans Act provides Federal funding for many essential services for our Nation's seniors.

What would increase funding for the Older Americans Act mean in terms of keeping seniors well nourished, keeping them in better mental health?

No senior in America should be left hungry or isolated.

As Senator Sanders likes to say, Meals on Wheels for an entire year for the equivalent of roughly 1 day in the hospital or 10 days in a nursing home.

The Older Americans Act: Supporting Efforts to Meet the Needs of Seniors.

In my view, both from a moral and from an economic perspective, we cannot turn our backs on the millions and millions of seniors who are hurting and who desperately need our help today.

Importantly, and this is maybe the main point of today, about 45 percent of funding from the Older Americans Act is used to provide meals to millions of frail and isolated seniors.

We pay ten times more for the same products that people in other countries pay.

The Older Americans Act provides Federal funding for many essential services for our Nation's seniors.

The system is completely broken.

These are not insignificant steps forward.