Ann Kirkpatrick: “I come from a multi-generational family of ranchers in northern Arizona.”

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.

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

I have seen firsthand the challenges these communities, tribal communities face on a daily basis.