[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 5]
[House]
[Pages 6940-6941]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




               SUPPLEMENTAL NUTRITION ASSISTANCE PROGRAM

  (Ms. SCHAKOWSKY asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. SCHAKOWSKY. Madam Speaker, are you kidding me? Taking food out of 
the mouths of hungry children--is that the reason that any of us would 
come to Congress? But that is exactly what the farm bill that's being 
considered today does. It takes food out of the mouths of hungry 
children.
  Not only will 1 million children lose their SNAP funding--the money 
that puts food on the table--but 200,000 of them will also lose their 
school lunches. This in the richest country in the world? This in the 
name of deficit reduction? This in a country where already tens of 
millions of children go to sleep hungry?
  There's not a district in this Nation, there's not a Member of 
Congress who doesn't have constituents who have to line up at a food 
pantry because otherwise they and their children would go

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to sleep hungry. This is the most incredibly mean-spirited piece of 
legislation.
  I urge a ``no'' vote on the $20 billion cut in SNAP.

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