[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 5]
[House]
[Page 6938]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                  IN OPPOSITION TO PROPOSED SNAP CUTS

  (Ms. McCOLLUM asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. McCOLLUM. Mr. Speaker, today the Agriculture Committee marks up a 
farm bill, cutting $20 billion from food support for the poorest, most 
vulnerable Americans. The Republican SNAP cuts will cut 210,000 
children off the school lunch program and deny 2 million Americans 
food.
  The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, SNAP, is a lifeline 
for nearly 50 million Americans to have access to healthy, affordable 
food and avoid hunger. More than half of SNAP recipients live in deep 
poverty. That's an income of less than $10,000 a year for a family of 
three. Right now, the daily SNAP benefit is $3.78.
  Two out of three SNAP recipients in Minnesota are poor children, 
seniors and adults with disabilities. To reduce the budget deficit by 
inflicting hunger on children, seniors and people with disabilities is 
simply immoral.
  I urge my colleagues to reject this cruel and harmful proposal to 
increase hunger in America.

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