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Close vote looms in US House on big Republican food-stamp cutsReutersFood stamps are overriding issue in farm bill. * Republican plan restricts food stamp eligibility. WASHINGTON, Sept 17 (Reuters) – Food-stamp defenders appealed for two dozen Republican defectors to help kill their party's proposed $40 billion cut in … More: …

NPR (blog) House GOP Works for Votes on Food Stamp MeasureABC NewsRepublican House leaders are working to line up votes for nearly $4 billion in annual food stamp cuts, but some GOP moderates are questioning if that is too much. The savings would be achieved by allowing states to put …

Fight over food stamps shows the sharp division in CongressThe Connecticut MirrorWashington – To many House Republicans, especially its tea party members, the food stamp program must shrink because it has become bloated and too expensive. They assert that the states have expanded eligibility to those who are not needy. …

House GOP seeks to deeply slash food stamp programBuffalo NewsWASHINGTON – Buffalo and other poorer cities will soon experience the sharpest cuts ever in the food stamp program if House Republicans get their way – and upstate food producers and advocates for the poor are equally upset about it. They …

Food stamp funding has long been part of the farm bill, but after a disagreement over food stamp cuts sank a version of the farm bill, House Republicans in June decided to vote on the issue separately. More: continued here

Food stamp funding has long been part of the farm bill, but after a disagreement over food stamp cuts sank a version of the farm bill, House Republicans in June decided to vote on the issue separately. More: continued here

9 Store Owners In Baltimore City Indicted For Food Stamp FraudCBS LocalBALTIMORE (WJZ) — Food stamp fraud. Baltimore businesses are accused of swiping millions in taxpayer money. Now the feds are stepping in. Meghan McCorkell has more on how the scheme worked. The owners of eight stores were indicted by …

Convert Food Stamps to a Work Activation ProgramHeritage.org (blog)Earlier this summer, the House took an important step in separating the bloated farm bill into an agriculture-only bill and a food stamp bill, which was introduced yesterday. To make a stand-alone food stamp bill a truly worthwhile reform, it should … …

House Republicans plan a vote this week on a bill that would save billions of dollars by taking away food stamps from millions of poor Americans. More: continued here

WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republican leaders say food stamps serve too many Americans and the almost $80 billion-a-year program needs to be slimmed down. More: continued here