Ann Kirkpatrick: “I was absent today due to a medical emergency. Had I been present, I would have voted: ``yea'' on rollcall No. 5…”

I come from a multi-generational family of ranchers in northern Arizona.

The current benefit level is not simply inadequate.

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.