date:May 21, 2013
ong bipartisan support but exposed a division among committee members over the size of cuts to the food stamp program, which has long been a target of conservatives. Hoping to get more Republicans to support the bill, the cuts were increased by $4 billion from $16 billion in last years bill.
A report by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a nonpartisan Washington research group, said the cuts in the food stamp program would eliminate two million people from the program, most of them chi