[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 4 (Wednesday, January 8, 2014)]
[House]
[Page H45]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                 SNAP CUTS AND FARM MANAGEMENT LOOPHOLE

  (Ms. DeLAURO asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. DeLAURO. Mr. Speaker, I rise to voice my objection to the 
misguided priorities that are taking shape in the conference farm bill. 
More and more, and despite payment reforms that were included in both 
the House and Senate legislation, it sounds like this farm bill plans 
to steal food from the poor to help pay crop subsidies to the rich.
  Unbelievably, on the 50th anniversary of the war on poverty, it is 
being reported that the farm bill currently being negotiated in 
conference will include cuts of roughly $8.5 billion to food stamps, 
denying critical food aid to over 800,000 households.
  Some of the same conferees who support these cuts are looking to 
strip out payment limits that are designed to stop the subsidizing of 
millionaire and billionaire farmers, a loophole they are reopening that 
was closed already.
  They are going to take food from the hungry: children, seniors, 
veterans, and workers. They are going to go out of their way to ensure 
that the wealthiest agribusinesses in America are getting handouts.
  Allowing poor Americans to starve so that we can subsidize rich 
corporations is not why we are here. It is cruel, it is corrupt, it is 
immoral, and we have to do better for the people that we represent.

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