I would think that we would need to match benefits proportionately and inversely proportionate to your income.

One of the concerns we had is we didn't have Committee hearings as we were determining $70 billion in new spending.

Again, it does show where SNAP provides a very valuable and important role in this time where people need this.

Diets cannot be improved without sufficient access to healthy foods.

I remind you that many of the people that we are talking about who participate in this program are children.

The friendliness and charity of our countrymen can always be relied upon to relieve their fellow-citizens in misfortune.

I have to remember the SNAP Program is a supplementary program, and it is serving well.

Federal aid in such cases encourages the expectation of paternal care on the part of the government and weakens the sturdiness of our national character.

The more the government grows in its unmerited transfer of wealth to the poor, the less the poor person will find the flourishing life and freedom for which he or she was created.

I appreciate your personal experiences with that.

SNAP is a program that stimulates the economy, helping to turn the tide from contraction to expansion.

But we do have to have an eye on the fact that 43 percent of our employers are looking to hire, and they are having a hard time of this.

I believe more justified than any government program is the expectation that the Federal Government should restrain itself to that list of 'few and defined' powers.

I really appreciate the thoughtful conversation. I really appreciate the panelists today, especially those who have their personal stories to share, and I thought it was just very well done.

A prevalent tendency to disregard the limited mission of this [government] power and duty should be steadfastly resisted, to the end that the lesson should be constantly enforced that, though the people support the Government, the…

I only hope you'll consider that the involvement of the Federal Government in helping people in my community has also brought its share of hurt.

the challenges posed by the [COVID]-19 pandemic to the nation's nutrition safety net have put into stark relief the need to modernize the country's nutrition assistance programs

One thing is clear from the testimony today. SNAP has absolutely been an essential support throughout this pandemic, and will continue to be crucial for economic recovery as we climb our way out of it.