Senate Rejects Effort To Cut Food Stamp Program
Source: Associated Press
The Senate has turned back an effort by Kentucky Republican Rand Paul to drastically cut food stamp spending and replace the food aid program with block grants to the states.
The 65-33 vote to defeat the Paul amendment was part of debate on a five-year, half-trillion-dollar farm and food bill.
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The farm bill would reduce food stamp spending by $4 billion over the next decade by eliminating abuses. Pauls amendment would have saved $322 billion over the same period by capping spending at $45 billion a year and turning over funding decisions to the states.
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HowHasItComeToThis
(3,566 posts)RAND, YOU ARE A JOKE. GO BACK TO YOUR SLOP STATE
Kablooie
(18,648 posts)azurnoir
(45,850 posts)freshwest
(53,661 posts)azurnoir
(45,850 posts)LiberalAndProud
(12,799 posts)We need to keep the Senate and regain the house, else the presidential election will be moot.
cstanleytech
(26,368 posts)If we dont then the republicans will be able to gerrymander the districts more and more until there isnt a democrat left in office.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)Zoeisright
(8,339 posts)That's the Paul version of Amerikkka.
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TalkingDog
(9,001 posts)I worked in Eastern KY for a year; one of the most impoverished areas in the country. We called it Botswana Ya'll and wondered if we were violating the Prime Directive by being there.
People there were literally living in a 3rd world country.
coalition_unwilling
(14,180 posts)'literally' living in a first-world country (unless eastern KY is no longer part of the United State , a discrepancy which arguably renders the pathos all the more intense.
TalkingDog
(9,001 posts)*sigh*
chknltl
(10,558 posts)My kids are 'paulites' because of alex jones... I am left to wonder (because I refuse to even look) what their source of info, alex jones has to say about this legislation sponsored by rand paul being defeated. This should make for an interesting bit of conversation with my kids later today....
Great Caesars Ghost
(532 posts)Cut all ties.
chknltl
(10,558 posts)....they may come to their senses on their own. One can always hope huh?
Mojorabbit
(16,020 posts)and I wonder where that number came from.
Rain Mcloud
(812 posts)of being wrong?
On every issue?
Ever?
Yo,Ayn Rand Paul,Where are the Jobs?