[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 126 (Thursday, July 25, 2019)]
[House]
[Page H7444]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         REJECT ATTACKS ON SNAP

  (Ms. WILD asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. WILD. Madam Speaker, 2 days ago, I received an email from a 
constituent, a professor at a community college in Allentown, 
Pennsylvania. Many of her students depend on SNAP benefits, and she 
reached out to me, deeply worried after hearing reports of the 
administration's plans to further undermine SNAP through extreme new 
executive actions.
  These changes would cut assistance to over 3 million people across 
our country, including children, veterans, disabled Americans, and 
seniors.
  I wish I could send her a reassuring response. It is truly a shameful 
time in America when we give tax cuts to billionaires and huge 
corporations, but we can't help folks falling on hard times put food on 
their tables.
  Around 44 percent of SNAP beneficiaries, nationally, are children, 
and research shows that SNAP not only reduces hunger and malnutrition, 
but also improves American people's lives in a whole range of other 
ways, including improving children's education outcomes.
  We cannot turn our backs on those we were sent here to serve. Let's 
stand together, Democrats and Republicans, alike, just as when we 
worked together to protect SNAP benefits in the farm bill, and reject 
these deeply immoral attacks on our most vulnerable fellow citizens.

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