[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 10]
[House]
[Page 13951]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                                SNAP ONE

  (Ms. KAPTUR asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Ms. KAPTUR. Mr. Speaker, the majority leader and the Tea Party Caucus 
have been railing against providing sufficient SNAP funding that 
provides food to the hungry. This is certainly not something to be 
proud of. I have never understood making scapegoats out of the most 
vulnerable Americans.
  The majority has been holding up passing bills to keep our country 
afloat in 2014 because they want to demonize ordinary Americans who are 
struggling to make ends meet. The Republican majority seems to enjoy 
the company of the very wealthy who are eating cake, while casting 
aside those who have really been scraping by economically. Some have 
lost their jobs due to outsourcing overseas, their homes to Wall Street 
greed, and for too many can barely maintain a foothold in the middle 
class.
  So let me propose a deal. Let's transfer out three of the massive 
government buildings in Virginia that employ thousands of people in the 
majority leader's Seventh Congressional District of Virginia and let's 
move those jobs to Ohio's Ninth Congressional District. Culpeper's loss 
would be Cleveland's gain.
  After we strike this deal, we in Ohio will enjoy the guaranteed jobs 
and income flows to which the Seventh District of Virginia has grown 
accustomed. We can cash in on the regular flow of funds to the majority 
leader's district that he takes for granted, including being the number 
one State for Federal procurement in the whole country. Let's harmonize 
Ohio's unemployment rate with Virginia's.
  I urge my colleagues to vote ``no'' on the majority leader's harsh 
let-them-eat-dirt proposal. He lives in an insulated economy. Ohio does 
not. We want responsible government that values every citizen. Let no 
one in America go hungry.

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