When I first came here--I got elected in '12--that first session, a number of us lived on SNAP for a week.
The benefits at that time were about $31.50 a week.
I have done the home visits of people, the new mothers, and seen the despair and the conditions.
I am really concerned--and I saw the President had a directive for military personnel especially about buying American.
Since then, the benefit now, only because we gave it a boost in the last appropriations process, is around a little over...
I feel like I would be doing legislative malpractice, however, if I didn't talk about the coronavirus.
I think it just shows how much we all value everything you do.
The purpose of my accepting your invitation to testify falls under the lessons learned category.
I have been a big believer in lethal aid to Ukraine to get Russia's attention.
I can see there are some things that there are no cultural differences about.
Give us the stuff that you think has been in the hopper for however long.