date:May 10, 2013
les apart, said a farm lobbyist.
Democrat Debbie Stabenow of Michigan, who chairs the Senate Agriculture Committee, is aiming for $4 billion in food stamp cuts over 10 years.
That is a far cry from the $20 billion in savings targeted by Oklahoma Republican Frank Lucas, the House Agriculture chairman, up $4 billion from the proposal in last year's bill, which House Republican leaders never put to a floor vote.
Republicans such as Senators Pat Roberts of Kansas and John Thune of South Dakota, a