SNAP works. SNAP is helping millions of struggling families around the county put food on the table.

The majority of SNAP recipients, who are able to work, do work.

What we need is a clearinghouse to be able to highlight best practices, but we also need to talk very candidly about ways that we can sew up some of the holes in the social safety net.

I spend a lot of time, really, talking about the conditions in New Mexico, which, given your research, and some of your--particularly, Dr. Chilton, some references that there are concerns about states like New Mexico, who have had waivers…

SNAP in and of itself is not a jobs program; it is a food program.

I encourage this Committee to remember that there are states who--even without waivers, and exceptions, and changes have not done the jobs that we intend.

SNAP is not a jobs program. It is a food program.

We should be looking at the evidence that shows that more and more seniors are experiencing hunger.

I fear that we can make lots of adjustments to the criminal justice system, but we are still going to have it as a de facto environment for institutional care for this population.

SNAP is a food program, not a jobs program.

I don't think we should lessen our commitment to food and nutrition programs, and divert those monies to someplace else.

Cutting them off from SNAP only makes hunger worse.

Those kinds of incentives can be very counter-productive, and create exactly the opposite intent, of innovation and productive reform.

I hope this is a stepping off place to do that.

SNAP can't do it all, but what it is supposed to do, which is to make sure that people don't go hungry in this country, I think it needs to do it better.

we have to be clear, and that is why I want the data. So it isn't politically driven, it is data driven.

I really care about and believe in, as effective as possible in meeting its goals--and doing what it ought to do, which is help this country eradicate hunger.

SNAP benefits processing has fallen by 23 percent, and this is a design as part of reforming the program: 20,000 lost their food benefits.

We need to make a significant investment in child care to make sure it reaches more people who need it.

I would love to see Congress and my State legislature declare a war on poverty and assure that no child in my home State ever goes hungry ever, ever again.

A disincentive to work is poverty. A disincentive to work is hunger.

I want to know that you are going to be responsible and supportive of these employees.

I don't think that these consequences are just 18 months.

What we all ought to be doing is assuring that we are protecting not only the thousands of Federal employees in my district.

I would really strongly encourage you that there ought to be a phone number that I can call to OPM.