Jackie Walorski

I have been involved in international feeding programs.

It's so important that this Committee focus our efforts on understanding how SNAP can best serve families and children across the United States.

We need your support and the bipartisan support of the Congress to pass The America Gives More Act this year.

Do you think right up front a work requirement... turns people off into getting involved in something like case management?

What is very clear to me, and what I hope becomes clear to you in the coming months, are the many layers of bureaucracy that does exist inside of SNAP.

Thank you, Chairwoman Jackie Walorski, Ranking Member Jim McGovern, and Members of the Subcommittee on Nutrition for the opportunity to testify on the characteristics of the population served by the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance…

It is so refreshing for me to sit here, because I do believe that partnering with other organizations that are on the front line, bringing in 501s, and bringing in programs that really are addressing more than just the need of just simply…

No one should go hungry, and highlighting the value of helping to get people out of poverty.

But you guys had visited my office not too long ago, some of your colleagues, talking about actually talking to the USDA and being contacted by the USDA to say, 'Hey. You are the professional food feeders.'

This hearing of the Committee on Agriculture, Subcommittee on Nutrition, to review SNAP characteristics and dynamics, will come to order.

On February 12, 2015, I missed two votes because I had the honor to be at the White House for the bill signing ceremony of H.R. 203, the Clay Hunt SAV Act. I missed recorded votes No. 77-78. I would like the Record to reflect how I would…

I want to ensure that we protect the most vulnerable populations.

As legislators, we are accountable to the taxpayers who fund the program.

We are going to take on a full scale review of the SNAP program.

They don't feel like they are being heard by this Administration.

I think there is a difference when you are a Secretary, and you have the opportunity to speak to another Secretary.

I just want to make sure that you are on board.

I think I am directing this to you but it could be to the doctor as well, but we heard today from the American Legion about a recent article published that explains how a mentally disabled homeless veteran in West L.A. was arrested by VA…

it seems to most Americans that are going to hear this story, it is an atrocity that veterans are sleeping outside in the cold

I thank the distinguished gentleman from Florida for yielding, and I am grateful to be here today to support the Clay Hunt SAV Act. Every day, 22 veterans take their own lives. We have all experienced this in our districts; I have as well…

I thank the chairman. Mr. Speaker, I, too, am pleased to stand here today to support the Save American Workers Act. I also want to thank my colleague and fellow Hoosier, Representative Todd Young, for sponsoring this bill. This bipartisan…

I thank the gentleman and Representative Rodney Davis. Today I honor the 54,000 veterans in my district and 20 million veterans across America who deserve the opportunity to have a job with the Hire More Heroes Act. The bill makes a change…

On January 3, Los Angeles Neighborhood Council Coalition unanimously voted in favor of a motion that declared Los Angeles in a state of emergency for homeless veterans.

I can't commend them enough for what they do. And they have the same heart and passion as well.

There is measured success when local programs are tailored to meet the needs of veterans.