Ann Kirkpatrick: “I was absent today due to a medical emergency. Had I been present, I would have voted: ``yea'' on rollcall No. 25…”

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.

The current benefit level is not simply inadequate.

I appreciate my colleague, Mr. Crawford's, comments about how we can work to develop a better system where we don't penalize people.

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