Ann Kirkpatrick: “We know Arizona and the West are headed toward a drought.”

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

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

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.