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House Agriculture Committee reviews the National Commission on Hunger progress in developing recommendations to address domestic hunger
Washington,
November 18, 2015
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SNAP
Washington, D.C. - Today, the House Agriculture Committee held its tenth hearing in its top-to-bottom review of SNAP, The Past, Present, and Future of SNAP, by reviewing the progress of the National Commission on Hunger in developing policy recommendations to more effectively address domestic hunger.
Committee members heard from the two Commission-selected co-chairs who shared their year-long process in developing their final report, which is scheduled to be released in the coming weeks. Commission members held field hearings and site visits in nine different cities to hear from nutrition experts and hunger advocates on what works and what doesn’t work within federal hunger programs like SNAP. “Throughout our review of SNAP, we have made it a priority to hear a wide range of perspectives – from recipients to program administrators to faith-based organizations. I appreciate the Hunger Commission’s insight on how to best use current resources to make nutrition programs, like SNAP, more efficiently serve recipients and taxpayers as well as the benefits of public-private partnerships, which we have examined in previous hearings. I commend the Commission for their efforts and for staying within their charge to not propose policies that increase costs or require additional resources. I look forward to reviewing their recommendations once the report is released,” said Chairman K. Michael Conaway. The Hunger Commission is a 10-member bipartisan panel selected by the House and Senate Leadership. It was established as part of the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2014 with the purpose of providing policy recommendations to Congress and the Agriculture Secretary on how to more effectively use Agriculture Department programs and funds to combat domestic hunger and food insecurity in the United States, within existing programs and resources. |