We need to get this right. We need to do this better.
opening statement
Well, thank you very much. And I want to thank the witnesses for being here.
I think that is an area we should be focusing attention on.
I think of SNAP as providing medicine for people, because I do think food is medicine.
It is a program that is actually run pretty well.
I am all for evidence-based evaluation, but we are talking about a program, in SNAP, that has one of the lowest error rates of any Federal p...
That is one of the reasons why I have been urging the White House to do a White House conference on food, nutrition, and hunger to try to br...
I wish, within the Federal Government, all the relevant agencies that deal with issues of hunger and poverty were better coordinated, would ...
But the problem is there are a lot of Members of Congress who are instinctively against SNAP because they think it creates dependency, when ...
I can tell you when we took back that food stamp generosity, when the Recovery Act monies ran out, all of us heard from constituents who com...