GOP controlled US House voted to eliminate the Food Stamp Program today. A few talk about a

[AlinPA]

separate bill to restore Food Stamps, but the program is gone. The teabagger controlled House will never approve a Food Stamp Bill.
http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2013/07/11/house-passes-agricultural-bill-without-food-stamps?s_cid=rss:house-passes-agricultural-bill-without-food-stamps

[Cha]

1. One more reason to GOTV in 2014

thanks AlinPA

[demwing]

2. simply not true

The House passes all varieties of shit bills which then die in the Senate or through Presidential veto.

Why are you lighting fires??

[AlinPA]

7. It's a fire for sure.The Senate could kill this, but the fact remains, the House stopped Food Stamps

today. If the House won't provide a Food Stamp Program in a bill or approve something the Senate assembles, it's gone. The republicans do not want the Food Stamp Program to exist.

[Rex]

8. 'House Passes Agricultural Bill Without Food Stamps'

Why the obvious lie? Just missed that part?

[former9thward]

9. Faux outrage of the day.

The House failed to bring up a farm bill last year. As a result, both food stamps and farm programs are operating under a temporary extension that expires on Sept. 30. If the House and Senate are unable to reach an agreement by then, another extension would be required. Otherwise, farm policy would revert to those first instituted in the 1930s that many lawmakers say are outdated.

Funding for food stamps, on the other hand, would continue at current levels after Sept. 30, unless Congress were to change them.

The OP is BS. The Senate passed a food stamp bill with a $4 billion cut. The House wants a $20 billion cut. So if no bill passes then food stamps will go on at current levels which is an improvement over both bills.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323740804578600044099228364.html

[PDJane]

3. I sincerely hope that the president vetoes the damn thing.

That is a truly obscene piece of work.

[djean111]

4. So this doesn't just cut funding, or not increase funding, but eliminates the program

altogether?

[Enrique]

5. I don't think so

this is the first I've heard of that

[AlinPA]

6. It was removed from the Farm Bill that has had it from day one.

[former9thward]

10. Nonsense.

The House failed to bring up a farm bill last year. As a result, both food stamps and farm programs are operating under a temporary extension that expires on Sept. 30. If the House and Senate are unable to reach an agreement by then, another extension would be required. Otherwise, farm policy would revert to those first instituted in the 1930s that many lawmakers say are outdated.

Funding for food stamps, on the other hand, would continue at current levels after Sept. 30, unless Congress were to change them.

The program goes on despite the bs in your OP.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323740804578600044099228364.html

[AlinPA]

11. RE: "If the House and Senate are unable to reach an agreement by then, another extension would be

required"...and where would this come from? The US House would have to be involved in an extension of the program.

[former9thward]

12. That is for the FARM BILL.

Read the next sentence. The food stamp program will continue. That does not need an extension.

[AlinPA]

13. Thanks for your patience, but if the Food Stamp Program is operating under an extension that expires

Sept 30, what mechanism continues it as that sentence states? Further, IMO there is zero chance of a stand-alone Food Stamp Bill in the teabagger controlled House despite what their "leaders" say. Again, thanks for going over this with me.