date:Jul 12, 2012
has become fashionable to blame the poor for our budgetary problems and diminish their struggles, McGovern said.
Representative Joe Baca (D-CA), who at one time in his life had to use food stamps to feed his own family, said This debate is about much more than the dollar figures. There is a very human cost to the action we take today...This farm bill will turn back the clock on the progress we have made. Two to three million people would loose SNAP eligibility.
Republicans on the committee said