[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 162 (2016), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 11931]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                     A BETTER WAY TO FIGHT POVERTY

  (Mrs. WALORSKI asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. WALORSKI. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to applaud the important 
work being done in Indiana's Second Congressional District to fight 
poverty and end hunger. This August I visited the Food Bank of Northern 
Indiana, which serves six counties and church community services in 
Elkhart. Both have been doing incredible work fighting poverty for 
decades.
  I also toured the Washington Discovery Academy in Plymouth, where 
they have a garden to teach kids about nutrition and grow produce for a 
local food pantry, and the Marshall County Neighborhood Center, whose 
food pantry serves 400 families each month.
  Mr. Speaker, hearing from those on the front lines of the fight 
against poverty is the best way to learn what works and what doesn't. 
That idea is central to our House Republicans' A Better Way agenda. Too 
many people are getting trapped in a cycle of poverty. That is why A 
Better Way calls for innovative and evidence-based solutions.
  By listening to people in our communities and testing new ideas, we 
can build a bridge out of poverty.

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