Derrick Van Orden: “I remind my Democrat colleagues that I was raised in abject, rural poverty by a single mother on food stamps when you…”

“I remind my Democrat colleagues that I was raised in abject, rural poverty by a single mother on food stamps when you had a stamp that you stuck on a card. I had subsidized government lunches and government cheese. We do have to know that there is a tremendous amount of fraud that takes place in SNAP, and we want to make sure that every single dollar that is allocated to go to a hungry child or a veteran or one of our senior citizens goes to them. I would like to say this to my colleagues. It is a quote. "It will not be doubted that with reference either to individual or national welfare, agriculture is of primary importance. In proportion as nations advance in population and other circumstances of maturity this truth becomes more apparent, and renders the cultivation of the soil more and more an object of public patronage." That was the original MAG President--make America great--because that was George Washington, and that quote comes from 1796. So when my colleagues say that we don't have enough money to spend to feed our people and grow our lands, they are simply wrong. This is a very, very good bill, and there are things for every single American in the one industry that should touch every American at least two times a day. I strongly support this bill, and I encourage my colleagues to do so.”