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No one should go hungry, and highlighting the value of helping to get people out of poverty.

If we can't fulfill this promise, we should provide seniors with SNAP benefits sufficient to be healthy.

I urge you and your Congressional colleagues to continue the bipartisan support of the SNAP program.

Government can't and should not be expected to deal with this significant issue on its own.

We need your support and the bipartisan support of the Congress to pass The America Gives More Act this year.

Cutting funding for SNAP... would not only harm millions of our neediest citizens but also would overwhelm states and charities.

If this Committee could do one thing, just one, if there was one thing we could do that would allow you to better connect with our program as it is right now, what would you suggest?

I am absolutely thrilled that you are here. This makes my entire week.

It can't be one or the other. It has to be two trains running.

I think what we saw here today is exactly why we need to have this discussion.

Food ought to be a right, and this is a program that works.

But you guys had visited my office not too long ago, some of your colleagues, talking about actually talking to the USDA and being contacted by the USDA to say, 'Hey. You are the professional food feeders.'

That is awesome. That is so great.

Everybody needs help some time.

Thank you, Chairwoman Jackie Walorski, Ranking Member Jim McGovern, and Members of the Subcommittee on Nutrition for the opportunity to testify on the characteristics of the population served by the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance…

This hearing of the Committee on Agriculture, Subcommittee on Nutrition, to review SNAP characteristics and dynamics, will come to order.

How do we ensure that, and what does this program do?

I have been involved in international feeding programs.