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It's so important that this Committee focus our efforts on understanding how SNAP can best serve families and children across the United States.

The program lacks a clear mission and the data reveals that it is not helping lift people out of poverty.

It's imperative that we first understand what works and doesn't within SNAP.

When I read that one in six Americans is hungry, it reaffirmed my commitment to ensure no child or adult endures what I've seen others go through.

I know what starvation looks like and how it affects families and communities.

What is very clear to me, and what I hope becomes clear to you in the coming months, are the many layers of bureaucracy that does exist inside of SNAP.

It is my hope and expectation that this Subcommittee... will explore and gain a better understanding of the entire program.

Taxpayers and recipients deserve a thoughtful and thorough review of SNAP.

I agree with Dr. Boskin's point that we need to, in tandem, address the runaway entitlement spending along with comprehensive tax reform.

When I graduated from college, you could basically work an entire summer and wind up paying off about half what your tuition was.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. And, Madam Chair, thanks for your service.

Those dollars are dollars that are never used to go to a restaurant, never used to maybe buy a car, never used to travel somewhere.

I just want to try to make sure that we can get that wonderful opportunity without basically saddling yourself for years and years as you look ahead.

If I cannot win a fair game, that is on me. But if I wind up in a situation where it is being manipulated against my company, it makes it awful tough to keep those workers working and to keep our economy growing.

If it is a fair field, we will do fine. But if the game is rigged, I do not know how we win that kind of game.

It is important here that we protect student privacy. But it is also important that we make--ensure that any new laws intended to create student privacy don't create--that are intended to create a student privacy floor do not also create a…

I have believed all along that the pledge alone wouldn't be enough, and that we ought to look at other ways that we can legally protect parents' rights to protect their child's privacy.

We can't be putting parents in the position where their choice is their kids gets an education or they have privacy, they can't have both.