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I am concerned that DOD is ineffectively assessing how many providers we do need.

I would rather have a nominee disagree with me than to simply nod, say yes, and then do the exact opposite a few days later.

We appreciate your service in taking on this mission. We wish you Godspeed.

We cannot make a peach an orange.

If it is 10,000 that is needed to be effective, then tell us it is 10,000.

What is the goal, as you see it, when you go there?

Do you support putting in place a no-fly zone or a safe zone?

While we have our differences, we share the common goal of working together against poverty and hunger in this country.

I will be honest with you, there is less Washington and there is more state and local level, closer to the people who have the need, in terms of authority and decision-making.

This change provides a workforce alignment. It actually brings business and industry to the table so that when we provide training, at the end of the day it is not just completing education, it is a family-sustaining job that is there.

Many of our poverty programs have almost been like anesthesia; it is meant to make you feel more comfortable living in poverty versus providing an off ramp.

While we know that a job is the surest way to get out of poverty, it can be difficult for individuals to find a job that matches their skills.

I have to stop you there because I am out of time, but I appreciate it.

I chair the Committee's Nutrition Subcommittee, which has been heavily involved in this review.

I don't look at this as just the issue of throwing more money into a situation just by saying, 'Hey, if we throw more money at this, it is going to be better.' Statistics in this country prove that is not true.

But what about the issue that SNAP recipients are watching the same TV programs everybody else is, they are going to the same apps online everybody else, they are doing the same thing, I mean they are people in our country, they are in our…

I feel like we are pushing upstream because the whole country is eating and doing the things that we are trying to tell a very small group of people not to do.

We want to make sure that those benefits go to what they are supposed to be used for, which is nutrition, not alcohol, and cigarettes, and lottery tickets.