Jackie Walorski

Everyone; the Federal Government, state governments, not-for-profits, the private sector, researchers, and recipients themselves, have a role to play in lifting Americans out of poverty and up the economic ladder.

Many of our poverty programs have almost been like anesthesia; it is meant to make you feel more comfortable living in poverty versus providing an off ramp.

Under SNAP, they're treated under a one-size-fits-all model.

I chair the Committee's Nutrition Subcommittee, which has been heavily involved in this review.

But what about the issue that SNAP recipients are watching the same TV programs everybody else is, they are going to the same apps online everybody else, they are doing the same thing, I mean they are people in our country, they are in our…

I feel like we are pushing upstream because the whole country is eating and doing the things that we are trying to tell a very small group of people not to do.

We are all in this together. Everybody is a shareholder.

Seniors, veterans, and active-duty military families each have unique needs.

While we have our differences, we share the common goal of working together against poverty and hunger in this country.

This change provides a workforce alignment. It actually brings business and industry to the table so that when we provide training, at the end of the day it is not just completing education, it is a family-sustaining job that is there.

We want to make sure that those benefits go to what they are supposed to be used for, which is nutrition, not alcohol, and cigarettes, and lottery tickets.

While we know that a job is the surest way to get out of poverty, it can be difficult for individuals to find a job that matches their skills.

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We all want to ensure access to credit for our farmers.

I am and still very, very concerned. When you are looking at areas that have rural places which are the hardest sometimes to get care to, that is why this evolved in the first place.

I want the VA to be healthy. I want the VA to work for my constituents in northern Indiana.

If we are going to look at broadening that radius, it is going to cost a whole lot of money.

That is my goal is to continue--to work as closely as we can to get the VA healthy.

Telehealth is working in my district, I will tell you that. But for specialized care, and for things like cancer and those kinds of--it is so hard.

I just had a phone call with my district staff that works on all of our VA case work in the district.