It is a vulnerable population, and I am worried that if we go forward with what you are proposing, a lot of people are going to be hurt.

I urge this subcommittee to provide at least $54 million for tree and wood pests under USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service.

Charities alone cannot solve hunger. It takes a strong federal commitment as well.

I urge this committee to continue to provide robust funding for nutrition programs administration.

I would be interested in hearing your views on what you plan for SNAP.

This is a very complicated population, and I want to know what the research is and what the data is that the Department is using to basically justify this rule change.

Able-bodied adults without dependents, as I said, are a complex, already vulnerable demographic.

I believe that hunger is a political condition. I think we have the power and the resources to end hunger in the United States.

The average person on SNAP is on the benefit for less than a year.

I am just trying to understand the benefit of throwing these people off of a food benefit, how that helps them get a job?

We have a modest request for $230,000. We appreciate the subcommittee's report language and your recognition of the incredible work that the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission does.

We strongly support the Law Library's digitization strategy, which will provide access to public domain U.S. legal and legislative materials.

We need to keep them. We can't just run this on a volunteer basis. Quite frankly, this is a full-time job.

We are looking for some certainty so we can hire professional staff and we can keep them and we can continue our work.

I am deeply grateful for this opportunity to speak with you today, and I want to thank you so much for your consideration of this request and the progress that has already been made on this.

Our job is to tell Congress the truth and the facts as best we can discern them.

We provide Members who are traveling with, you know, information on human rights defenders, on the human rights situation in countries.

It is like Reagan said, trust but verify, and we would be happy to help you with ensuring that happens.

You, in the last fiscal year, raised the amount for this program from $5 million to $10 million, and we are here to ask that we continue the $10 million.

They were never recognized at the time for their service to our country, and many of us thought that they deserve some sort of recognition.

All it is is a recognition, a medal or whatever is deemed appropriate, but something that would honor their service and recognize their service.

I want to thank you, Madam Chair and Ranking Member Visclosky, for allowing me the opportunity to testify in support of the Wounded Warrior Service Dog Program.

I just--I don't get it.

I think they deserve to be recognized, and I think that is the will of the House.

I want to thank this committee in particular because this would not be in existence without Chairwoman Granger and Ranking Member Visclosky and the members of this committee.