[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 5]
[House]
[Page 7048]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




               SUPPLEMENTAL NUTRITION ASSISTANCE PROGRAM

  (Ms. SEWELL of Alabama asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute.)
  Ms. SEWELL of Alabama. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of 
struggling families and low-income women and children across this 
Nation and oppose the dangerously high cuts in the farm bill to SNAP 
programs. The current House version of the 2013 farm bill will have 
devastating effects on so many working families, especially in Alabama. 
It threatens over 900,000 participants in my home State of Alabama 
alone.
  These proposed cuts are unacceptable. While I understand that our 
Nation faces a serious debt and deficit problem, we also face fragile 
economic recovery, and families and children depend upon these 
government assistance programs, especially the children in the State of 
Alabama. I think that we are encroaching upon a dangerous trend of cuts 
on the backs of the people who can least afford to have those cuts.
  Now is not the time to turn our backs on these struggling American 
families. We must work together and take action to protect all 
Americans who depend upon these vital programs.

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