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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.

I appreciate your expertise in looking at this process.

Funding for these programs is wholly inadequate.

I appreciate it. I look forward to the continued dialogue.

Do we mandate---- Does the Federal Government mandate--have we ever mandated that somebody seriously track these families...

Is there any sense of stewardship on the government's--from the government's perspective once somebody is on SNAP...

Today is about understanding those families in need. Who they are, what has brought them to the program, and how long they have remained in the program so we better understand how to serve them.