Ann Kirkpatrick: “I think that the days of asking the veterans to drive 200 miles or 150 miles to come to the mother ship... has to be a…”

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.

The average benefit is only $1.40 per person per meal.