I wish, within the Federal Government, all the relevant agencies that deal with issues of hunger and poverty were better coordinated, would meet on a regular basis, and talk about ...
That is one of the reasons why I have been urging the White House to do a White House conference on food, nutrition, and...
I am all for evidence-based evaluation, but we are talking about a program, in SNAP, that has one of the lowest error ra...
It is a program that is actually run pretty well.
I think of SNAP as providing medicine for people, because I do think food is medicine.
I think that is an area we should be focusing attention on.
Well, thank you very much. And I want to thank the witnesses for being here.
We need to get this right. We need to do this better.
This is a program to make sure people do not go hungry in this country, and the benefit is inadequate.
I think every single person in this Congress should be ashamed of that fact.
We need to make sure that SNAP works and provides a benefit that is adequate to feed children and to feed families.