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Food Insecurity Relief
23 statements about Food Insecurity Relief from 20 members since Jan 3, 2025.
Statements about Food Insecurity Relief, last 12 weeks
DemRep● = 1 statement
Statements per week mentioning Food Insecurity Relief, all members, split by party. Democrats stacked first, Republicans after, four to a row. Hover a dot for the member and headline; click a dot to search for that headline. Click a week to set the dates below. Aug 17, 2026 – Nov 4, 2026.
Most active on Food Insecurity Relief · Aug 17 – Nov 4
- 1RDarin LaHoodIL-161
- 2DChristopher MurphyCT1
- 3DAdam B. SchiffCA1
- 4DJames P. McGovernMA-021
- 5RAshley MoodyFL1
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7 statements
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Introduced two bills to expand access to affordable meals for college students facing food insecurity.
“College students should never have to worry about where their next meal will come from or have to drop out because they can’t afford food and tuition. These bills are a commonsense approach to addressing student hunger and strengthening higher education”
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Mr. Speaker, over the August recess, I had the pleasure of visiting the incredible work being done by Verde Vida at their La Casita site and popup market at an elementary school in the Washington Heights neighborhood of New York City. Across multiple school-based sites in the city, Verde Vida and…
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Called for House passage of three bills to combat food deserts and expand grocery access in underserved communities.
“When a grocery store closes in a neighborhood like Schiller Park, for families with limited access to transportation, it can mean the difference between fresh food and processed food, and between affordable groceries and expensive, unhealthy options from a corner store”
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Welch, Merkley, Wyden Champion FORK Act, Bipartisan, Bicameral Legislation to Keep Rural Kids Fed
Reintroduced bipartisan FORK Act to fund rural summer meal program vehicles.
“Vermont has the highest percentage of rural students in the nation—that means food-insecure students in our state have a harder time participating in summer meal programs. Investing in food delivery programs that transport students to and from summer meal sites has to be part of the solution”
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Merkley, Salinas, Lawler, Hoyle Champion Bipartisan Bill to Expand Summer Meal Access for Rural Kids
Introduced bipartisan bill to expand summer meal access for rural children through vehicle funding.
“No child should go hungry because school is out for the summer”
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Co-introduced legislation to provide free universal school meals to all U.S. students regardless of income.
“No child should have to sit in a classroom hungry or worried about where their next meal will come from”
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Questioned USDA Inspector General nominee on Trump administration's SNAP reapplication plan.
“Mr. Walk, we were talking, or you were talking to the Chairman about the SNAP program. And we understand, or we’ve heard, that the Secretary of Agriculture has said that there has to be reapplication on the part of all current SNAP recipients now.”
Sources: members’ press releases from their official websites (since the 119th Congress began (Jan 3, 2025)) and the Congressional Record (since Aug 2026). Statements are tagged to Food Insecurity Relief by AI reading of the full text. Quotes are shown only when they match the archived source text word for word.