[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 10]
[House]
[Page 13802]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




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             CUTTING $40 BILLION FROM THE NUTRITION PROGRAM

  (Ms. KUSTER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Ms. KUSTER. Mr. Speaker, I rise today with a heavy heart because this 
body will soon consider a bill that will cut 4 million children from 
their nutrition benefits. Americans will go hungry. In my district and 
across this country, these are our friends, our neighbors, our fellow 
parishioners. They are children and veterans and seniors.
  One of my constituents wrote to me recently about how Federal 
nutrition assistance is essential to feeding her family. She is 28 
years old, disabled, and an orphan, so she has no family to fall back 
upon. And she is the mother of a toddler. On top of all that, she's in 
college, working to get her undergraduate degree, and has a double 
major, no less. But right now, she depends on the Supplemental 
Nutrition Assistance Program to feed her toddler, and that assistance 
doesn't even go far enough. She still has to rely on our local food 
bank and other community assistance.
  This is who we are talking about when we debate cutting $40 billion 
from the nutrition program. We can and should do better.

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