What kind of force presence do we have in place today in the Baltics, and do you believe it is enough to reassure our allies?

And the question focusing on my migration, how could that best be used in order...

I could not agree with you, and Senator Menendez, and Senator Cardin in terms of democracy and human rights.

I think we are trying to do that at the Federal executive level.

And I know she mentioned this because my staff told me.

I have real heartburn over the fact that, while we're dedicating enormous resources to the border in New Mexico, we are not even in the top half, and yet we have 179 miles of border.

finding the balances so that we are innovative and thinking about ways, particularly, to garner better access, not just to food in general but healthy food that has the educational components and choice in areas where we have significant…

We want to make sure beneficiaries and families, individuals in the community aren't doing things--and providers and contractors, that here I have a state that is falsifying records to deny access to some of the hungriest families in the…

Striking these balances are very important, and making sure that we don't end up in an environment where we just create more hunger.

I also want these benefits to be targeted in a meaningful way, and I want real opportunity, so that we don't have persistent poverty.

the support from Congress to see that happen is probably essential.

In New Mexico, we have permanent SNAP lines at the commissary on the Air Force base, because we have such high poverty rates...

I have no doubt that this is going to further exacerbate the problem that you have testified about.

It is an issue we have to address.

the governor has unilaterally re-imposed very restrictive work requirements on SNAP recipients, even though there are no jobs

the intent of Congress to allow states to have more flexibility in how they operate SNAP and related programs is to really ensure that those states can target the constituents, and those families, in a meaningful way

I get very concerned when that flexibility... can be utilized in a way that does exactly the opposite of the intent of the core program

we are also looking at getting folks into a situation where they are not dependent on these benefits