[Congressional Record Volume 158, Number 120 (Monday, September 10, 2012)]
[House]
[Page H5749]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




              DON'T CUT THE SUPPLEMENTAL NUTRITION PROGRAM

  (Ms. JACKSON LEE of Texas asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute.)
  Ms. JACKSON LEE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, just recently it was announced 
that 50 million Americans experience food insecurity--and experienced 
it in the last year. What that means is that families in the United 
States suffer without food. A predominant number of those are single 
parents and children.
  What are we as a country if we allow children to go hungry in this 
particular great land?
  I just came back from Africa, and saw children who are hungry. But 
yet we were there to encourage better technology to promote 
agricultural development. But today, this Congress, this House, 
Republican Congress, is cutting $16 billion from the Supplemental 
Nutrition Program. We can do better.
  I want to work with this Congress to ensure that 50 million Americans 
are not hungry in this great land. Let us revisit the cutting of the 
Supplemental Nutrition Program because our children are begging, 
they're asking us: Do we care?
  We do care. We cannot cut $15 billion, $16 billion from the 
Supplemental Nutrition Program with 50 million Americans experiencing 
food insecurity--working Americans, Americans with children. The time 
to stop is now and support those families.

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