Ann Kirkpatrick: “Your testimony notes a total of 6.9 million that the VA has budgeted for the center from fiscal year 2010 to fiscal year…”

This can't continue. We have to ensure that our workforce has access to good-paying union jobs here in the United States, and we must prioritize clean energy solutions at the same time.

the current benefit level is not simply inadequate.

I depended on SNAP to put food on my table.

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.