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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. we're 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 pain. >> and for people that have taken the oath to serve this country, for people that have said to t...

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 dance for them. but there is definitely a lot of time when i'm trying to spend money on the company a...

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 call me and ask me to make a dance for them. but there is definitely a lot of time when i'm trying to ...

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 commission work. so dance companies or colleges might call me and ask me to make a dance for them. ...

You made the point to him over and over again. we're 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 you're going to go look for waste, fraud and abuse, how about we look at places where there's 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 don't think you start by taking food off the table for children. >> stay with us. we'll have mor...