Kim Schrier

How is it fair for folks in Massachusetts to make 200 percent of poverty and folks from Texas make only 160?

The cost of that is that kids and low-income working families may not get the food that they need in school, at home, or over the summer.

Broad-based categorical eligibility helps more than 38,000 families in Washington meet eligibility requirements for SNAP.

The cost of closing this so-called loophole, which isn't really a loophole--this is just eliminating paperwork--we already know, because we heard in this Committee, that the fraud rate in this program is less than one percent.

If you don't close those loopholes, then people can get a hold of a gun who could do our children harm or do themselves harm.

I challenge some of my colleagues who are so reluctant to close loopholes in a Tax Code that gives tremendous benefit to the wealthiest and to corporations.

I would think that having conversations about the specifics of the test, if those were bad, if those were wrong, let's have that conversation.

For somebody who agrees with my amendment, that was a lot of commentary about our situation at the border. I am not here to discuss our situation at the border or how we treat refugees. I am not here to discuss the fact that families can…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: On page 109, line 23, after ``medical goods and services,'', insert ``which may include early childhood…

Farmers really could save our planet. With soil health and with cover crops and crop rotation, farmers can decrease our greenhouse gas emissions and sequester carbon and take 20 percent out of our atmosphere.

Sounds like this is a place where we could help, with helping with financing that.

I think most farmers, probably a hundred percent of farmers should understand the climate is changing.

I got the impression that overall there was a ton of skepticism and feet dragging.

I am excited to hear from you this morning and hear your thoughts about how low- and no-till farming, regenerative farming, crop rotation, and carbon sequestration can really show us that farmers could literally save our planet.

The 2010 Healthy Hunger Free Kids Act provided an additional $.06 per meal in reimbursement for schools that were meeting updated standards.

If we give kids like a salt tooth or a sweet tooth, that lasts forever and will affect their ultimate outcomes.

I am concerned about the rolling back of a lot of the targets, for example, the sodium reduction target.

I would just like to reiterate that it is so important that we all step up. When I hear my colleagues talking about jobs, needing to do other things, waiting, this is too advanced. It is frustrating to see that 2 years passed and we saw…

My amendment would support farmers and ranchers who employ agricultural practices that help us meet the goals and ambitions of the Paris Agreement. In order to combat climate change, we are all going to have to work together. Ours is a…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 8, after line 20, insert the following new subsection: (d) Rule of Construction.--Nothing in this…

I'm speaking today as a pediatrician, healthcare professional, about protecting our frontline healthcare workers from what seem to be more and more threats to our health and safety.

There's a certain degree of, of a need to protect doctors, because if doctors die then we can't protect everybody else.

Giftedness does not know the color of your skin but what does make a difference in your ultimate outcome is whether you can use that giftedness.

Integrating our schools is also part of that, and your testimonies were incredibly compelling in laying out what a difference that makes.

I consider it my job here to make sure that every child gets his or her best chance.