[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 10]
[House]
[Page 13950]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                       A VICTORY FOR COMMON SENSE

  (Mr. STUTZMAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. STUTZMAN. Mr. Speaker, today we have an opportunity to win a 
victory for common sense. For decades, business as usual has fostered 
an unholy alliance between food stamps and farm policy. Year after 
year, Washington spent money that it never had. This summer, when the 
House considered a trillion-dollar welfare bill that was a farm bill in 
name only, taxpayers had seen enough.
  The American people were able to defeat business as usual by 
insisting that both food stamps and farm policy be considered 
individually and on their own merits. It's just common sense. Finally, 
we passed a farm-only farm bill that ended direct payments. Today, we 
can continue that work by passing a food stamp bill that doubles the 
savings that the House originally considered.
  Mr. Speaker, this bill eliminates loopholes, ensures work 
requirements, and puts us on a fiscally responsible path. In the real 
world, we measure success by results. It's time for Washington to 
measure success by how many families are lifted out of poverty and 
helped back on their feet, not by how much Washington bureaucrats spend 
year after year.

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