Ann Kirkpatrick: “I appreciate your answer, but I do not think you completely answered my question which is, why not use an alternate…”

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

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.

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 is a hand-up, not a hand-out, for Americans striving to achieve self-sufficiency.