“This isn’t about politics at all in the end. It’s about who we are,” Hawley wrote in “No American Should Go to Bed Hungry,” a guest essay in this newspaper:
America is a great and wealthy nation, and our most important wealth is our generosity of spirit. We help those in need. We provide for the widow and the orphan. Love of neighbor is part of who we are. The Scripture’s injunction to “remember the poor” is a principle Americans have lived by. It’s time Congress does the same.
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