[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 8]
[House]
[Page 11314]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                    SHAME ON THE REPUBLICAN MAJORITY

  (Mr. BUTTERFIELD asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. BUTTERFIELD. Mr. Speaker, shame on the Republican majority. Shame 
on you.
  The Rules Committee met last night and is sending us a rule today 
that has attached to it a bill that we have not seen and have not been 
able to read. They call it the farm bill. But it appears that, in this 
farm bill, they have stripped away the nutrition title from the bill.
  Mr. Speaker, for years and years we have combined nutrition 
assistance with support for farmers and ranchers, but this is a rush 
job. Democrats and the Congressional Black Caucus are appalled that the 
Republicans are determined to defund food stamps and place vulnerable 
Americans in a position of not being able to feed their families.
  Shame on you. You have removed food stamps, the SNAP program, from 
this legislation. I don't know where it's going to go. It looks like 
it's going to die a slow death. It is despicable.
  What is it about poor people that you don't like? What is it? Tell us 
today.
  What is it about poor people that you don't like and you don't want 
to feed their families?
  I have the fourth poorest district in the Nation. We do not like it.

                          ____________________