The Rev. Diane Riley, a deacon in the Diocese of Newark, is quoted in this article.
[The Star-Ledger] After the passage by the House of Representatives last week of a farm bill that does not include funding for the federal food stamp program, Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) visited the state's largest food bank this morning to highlight his support for the program, which he cast in stark and unambiguous moral terms.
Menendez, speaking in the cavernous warehouse of the Community FoodBank in Hillside and with cases of soup cans and cereal boxes stacked behind him, chastised the House for passing an aid package he said would benefit industrial farmers while neglecting the nation's needy.
“How is it possible that you can provide hundreds of millions of dollars for subsidies for big agri-farmers and provide nothing for an average American?” he asked.
