[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 4]
[House]
[Page 5566]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           NO MORE SNAP CUTS

  (Mr. McGOVERN asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. McGOVERN. Madam Speaker, over the past 6 months, this Nation's 
premier antihunger safety net program, SNAP, has been cut by nearly $20 
billion. Forty-six million Americans saw a cut of about $30 a month for 
a family of three, and hundreds of thousands more will see a cut of 
about $90 because of two separate cuts that took effect in November and 
in February.
  But those pale in comparison to the Ryan budget. This budget, which 
will be voted on by this House next week, cuts at least $137 billion 
from SNAP--$137 billion. That is simply devastating.
  Budgets are moral documents, and the Ryan budget is immoral. What 
kind of nation are we if all we do is continue to take food from the 
mouths of the hungry?
  We can't keep balancing our budgets on the backs of poor. It is time 
to say enough is enough, no more cuts to SNAP. We should protect the 
vulnerable and the least well off in this country instead of punishing 
them simply for being poor.

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