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When you are partnering you are sending, then, all those resources down to the front line

We are all in this together. Everybody is a shareholder.

Thank you for holding a hearing on the very important topic of 'Past, Present, and Future of SNAP: Addressing Special Populations.'

We recommend a simple resolution of this problem: excluding BAH benefits as countable income in the SNAP determination process.

Under SNAP, they're treated under a one-size-fits-all model.

Seniors, veterans, and active-duty military families each have unique needs.

The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, is by far the nation's largest Federal food assistance program.

I also want to bring to your attention today's orange juice, compliments of Representative Ted Yoho of Florida.

Everyone; the Federal Government, state governments, not-for-profits, the private sector, researchers, and recipients themselves, have a role to play in lifting Americans out of poverty and up the economic ladder.

I thank the gentleman from Georgia and appreciate his comments tremendously. I think he made some very good points. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Nebraska (Mr. Smith).

I thank the gentleman for the reminder from one of our Founding Fathers, and I appreciate your service to the citizens in Georgia. I yield to another Member from the great State of Georgia (Mr. Loudermilk).

I thank the gentleman from Florida. I yield to the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Jody B. Hice).

As always, it is an honor to follow my good friend, the President pro tempore, Senator Hatch from Utah, who has done such an extraordinary job representing his State and our country for so many years. ____________________

We need to break loose from the stranglehold, not only for our patients, but for our patients and the costs they pay and for the costs the whole system pays.

We have a responsibility to taxpayers to not pay $750 for a pill that should actually cost a dollar

Just like this hearing today is doing the same thing, and that is why I mentioned the importance of getting some sort of list or registry that you keep of these off-patent brands that are going to be subject to this kind of acquisition.

Thank you, Madam Chair, and thank you so much for hosting this and having this hearing. I think it is critically important.

I would argue that better plans than that were available before the Affordable Care Act.