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

I depended on SNAP to put food on my table.

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

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.

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