Ann Kirkpatrick: “I would like to thank everyone for joining us and I would like to thank our witnesses for taking time to testify and…”

I come from a multi-generational family of ranchers in northern Arizona.

SNAP and our Federal safety net programs are a hand-up, not a hand-out, and many of us on this Committee once utilized the program.

Ranching is hard enough as it is, in the best of circumstances, so thank you for staying with it, and for what you do.

It is incumbent upon Congress and the USDA to reverse this trend.