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House panel okays $33 billion in food stamp cuts
Source: Reuters
House panel okays 33 billion in food stamp cuts
By Emily Stephenson
Wed Apr 18, 2012 2:39pm EDT
(Reuters) - A congressional panel approved about $33 billion in cuts over 10 years from food assistance programs in a partisan vote that signaled Republican members' preference to trim social programs instead of farm programs or defense spending this year.
The cuts advanced by the House of Representatives Agriculture Committee on Wednesday are expected to die in the Democratic-controlled Senate.
But the vote done by voice, in which several Democrats uttered irritable 'nays', showed that Republicans will push domestic spending cuts over defense cuts or tax hikes as they try to replace automatic cuts that take effect in January.
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By Emily Stephenson
Wed Apr 18, 2012 2:39pm EDT
(Reuters) - A congressional panel approved about $33 billion in cuts over 10 years from food assistance programs in a partisan vote that signaled Republican members' preference to trim social programs instead of farm programs or defense spending this year.
The cuts advanced by the House of Representatives Agriculture Committee on Wednesday are expected to die in the Democratic-controlled Senate.
But the vote done by voice, in which several Democrats uttered irritable 'nays', showed that Republicans will push domestic spending cuts over defense cuts or tax hikes as they try to replace automatic cuts that take effect in January.
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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/04/18/us-usa-agriculture-stamps-idUSBRE83H16320120418
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shaking my head about how the Republicans are weaseling out of the debt deal they finally cut with President Obama and the Dems to avoid default (and yet still damaging our credit rating in the process) and they seem to basically be getting away with it. Hopefully, President Obama will bring this up at some point.
