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Up with an all democratic congress. i stood on the house floor when we were talking about the s.n.a.p. program. and i said did you really come here to take food out of the mouths of hungry children? who are you? that is not the way the american people are. were a generous people, we care for each other. this will as melissa said, really show that government is about the things that people need if they shut it down. that would be maybe the one bright side. but for a lot of people, it would be pai...

Thinking about all i can do for my company, you know, we just started getting health care for my company, that will be in place, and knowing we have the cushion. >> three years ago you were on the snap program. tell me about the circumstances that led you to go onto food stamps. >> sure, for me it was a really hard time. you know, i was actually touring a good deal, but mostly as a solo artist and doing a lot of commission work. so dance companies or colleges might call me and ask me to make a d...

About paying my rent, a and thinking about all i can do for my company, you know, we just started getting health care for my company, that will be in place, and knowing we have the cushion. >> three years ago you were on the snap program. tell me about the circumstances that led you to go onto food stamps. >> sure, for me it was a really hard time. you know, i was actually touring a good deal, but mostly as a solo artist and doing a lot of commission work. so dance companies or colleges might ca...

From graduate school and under-graduate school, thinking about paying my rent, a and thinking about all i can do for my company, you know, we just started getting health care for my company, that will be in place, and knowing we have the cushion. >> three years ago you were on the snap program. tell me about the circumstances that led you to go onto food stamps. >> sure, for me it was a really hard time. you know, i was actually touring a good deal, but mostly as a solo artist and doing a lot of...

You made the point to him over and over again. were talking about 1% of fraud. the snap program is at the lowest amount of fraud ever. we heard a loot about that last week when they talked about the snap program. if youre going to go look for waste, fraud and abuse, how about we look at places where theres real waste fraud and abuse when we look at the defense spends. how much we miss spend on contractors just between the iraq and afghanistan wars. if that was what you were really tries to do, i...

>> well, we cant afford not to. i think the conversation needs to change. we need to look at programs like food stamps and wic and other social programs as an investment in the future. when kids are going to school hungry, they cant learn. we know education is the key to getting people the key to upper mobility. right now when kids are showing up to school, theyre hungry and cant work. its not theyre missing breakfast, theyre missing dinner the night before. its that drastic raight now. >> its s...

Talking about violence in our communities, because violence in our communities comes from that structural inequality, the economic inequality. you take $4 billion a year, literally saying some of our elderly, some children are going to become not just impoverished but theyre going to have food insecurity as a part of their everyday livelihood. i dont think the politicians in washington, d.c., think about that. $40 billion over ten years is a tremendous amount to take out of the s.n.a.p. program....

Caviar on the house floor. we heard tatiana talking about children, about her children and how this affects them. your group deals primarily with childhood hunger. a report you put out earlier this year says, households with children are nearly twice as likely to be food insecure as households without children. over 3.9 million american families have children that have not had access to adequate, nutritious foods. what kind of impact could this have on our children? >> lets set the context. this...

Youre absolutely right. theres not a single congressional district in the country where there isnt a problem with hunger and where people are not utilizing food stamps. were coming out of a terrible economy. hopefully it will be getting better soon if the republicans dont shut the government down. in the meantime we need to make sure people in this country have enough to eat. what was sad about the vote. ending hunger used to be a bipartisan issue. think of bob doll and mcgovern came together an...

Waste, fraud and abuse. weve got to stop the waste, fraud and abuse. its setting up something we saw with wide southern strategy last time which was to convince white voters to vote against self-interest because at least youre better than those people. i think thats more than insidious than they dont care, they dont understand. i think theres something far more nefarious going on here. >> congressman, i think one of the huge pieces of misinformation, more people on the food stamp roles because i...