[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 8]
[House]
[Page 11315]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




             INCLUDE NUTRITION ASSISTANCE IN THE FARM BILL

  (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 to express great 
disappointment in my Republican colleagues for bringing a version of 
the farm bill that does not include nutrition assistance.
  When I joined this great, august body, I was a member of the 
Agriculture Committee. The Agriculture Committee, time and time again, 
reauthorized the farm bill. Bipartisanship was always the hallmark. And 
this is not the hallmark of what we as Americans stand for.
  Our minister today just stood up here with us in prayer and said that 
we would walk justly, that we would do and love mercifully, and that we 
would be humbled before God. If we are to truly have those words mean 
something in America, we must take care of our working families, our 
needy families, our children, in addition to our farmers.
  The farmers that I represent in Alabama do not want a farm bill that 
does not include nutrition assistance. We cannot provide government 
subsidies to farmers without providing government assistance to people 
in poverty. It is not what we as Americans stand for.
  If we have no further business in this august body this week, we 
should go home.

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