Pushback is the only thing these bullies who passed these bills understand. The amendment to cut food stamps, was authored by Senator David Vitter. He proposed eliminating food stamps for felons and people who had otherwise paid their debt to society for sex crimes. Of course, those who allegedly consort with prostitutes and actually publically beg forgiveness for crimes like he did are exempted---even if the prostitutes eventually hang themselves from the shame and publicity caused by being linked to Vitter.

They should have titled the bill "The Farm Bill and Hypocrite Amendments"

he keeps his word on this.

he needs to actually stand up to the bullies

I voted for Mr. Obama hoping for so much...now, I'm just overjoyed when he shows a little spine on anything important.

More plesantly surprised. Am reserving "overjoyed" for if he actually follows through. It's been a long drought with him...let it RAIN all in here!

Lady next door to me, 92-year old widow of a WW II vet who was at Pearl Harbor, lives on about $800 a month SS, and gets $14 a month in food stamps. Now the Republicans want to kick her under the bus and take her freakin food stamps from her. If that's what Republicans call "family values" then I got news for them: Jesus gonna set up a roadblock on their pathway to heaven and divert them to the freakin underworld where they belong filled with fearful, greedy, shrunken souls.

Take a stand Obama. Better to go down fighting for decency, than to choose greed and degeneracy like the Fallen RepuliBaggers.

Wow, like that's really going to help her. Is the food stamp program really that stingy?

Snap (food stamps) helped my kids 6-7 years ago. I'll never forget that. I found myself without a job (thanks bush) supporting 2 lil girls. We got $275 per month for 5 months till I got back on track. It allowed me to keep our house. I now have a solid job with great benefits. Where would We be without a little help from government? Scary thought...

I wonder if those in the same boat now are being helped as generously.

The whole SNAP program is stingy by design because it's meant to be a supplemental source of grocery money. For seniors this pittance is still better than nothing.

Good!

Of course, it's the nutcase GOP House, so what do you expect?

Besides assistance for small farmers, what the farm bill was originally set up for, the food stamp part of the bill is the primary issue in the bill. Assistance to wealthy farm owners who don't know what a kernel of corn looks like so that we can cut aid to the poor and hungry. Shameful.

This has been a big one for me. I haven't the mental strength to deal with Snowden and all the other issues, but a possible cut to food stamps has my focus.

Obama doesn't veto. He has used the veto less than any president since garfield

houses, I'm sure most of the negotiations happen before they hit his desk.

I'll hurry back here with it. But just in case the cupboard's bare, anyone feel free to beat me to it.

Word direct from the agencies involved suggests there may be no electric bill help for the poor this summer, perhaps no heating help next winter either, or at least severely delayed and restricted. Maybe when we start finding starving people frozen to death in their homes or by the bunches under bridges and woodland Hoovervilles, maybe then people will rise up and make their voices heard.

in between The House and Senate cuts, no cuts are good and will cause hunger.

I fear this is the beginning of a bipartisan Food assistance cuts bill that will be marketed as, "see! We starve your children a little less than they would. Whoo hoo!"

There is some history to warrant such a fear based on his past negotiations.

This is a very large, comprehensive Bill,
and the Food Assistance Cuts are a very small part of it.

Are we going to face another contrived Hostage Situation where Obama saves the little children but gives away the store on the backside?

I haven't had the time to find out what else is in there,
but Farm Bills are traditionally pork laden monstrosities with huge gifts to Big Ag
and Chem Corporations like Monsanto.

The Food Stamps Program is IMPORTANT,
but it makes a very attractive "Hostage" to misdirect attention,
TOO attractive at first look.

I have earned my cynicism.
After the last 20 years, it is wise to ask,
"OK. What are they hiding?"

Now THERE is my president!!!!

soooooooooooooooo Christian like, NOT.

FN good!

Republicans are greedy douch bags. And the rich need tax breaks. who better to take from besides low income families?

I wish our president would fight these a&& hats a little harder

so we can keep the GOP in control of the House and flip the Senate over to the Republicans in 2014

to see a vote on record with the cuts. That way, we'd have a record for the 2014 elections. Additional proof that the gop could care less about the 99%.

If a big part of this bill is giving gifts back to the likes of ADM, etc. in the form of farm subsidies that THEY DON'T NEED, and they only use to help them DUMP exports in south America below cost to put farmers down there out of work that turns them either in to outsourced labor down there, or illegal immigrants if they have to find work up here instead WITH OUR TAXPAYER MONEY paying for this to happen!

The Immigration bill is so loaded with CRAP that works against us with things like expanding the H-1B Visa program, etc.

If we can get back to having reasonably priced farm exports down there so that their farmers can go back to farming again and living close to their own families, then I think vetoing this bill might have even more benefits than just negotiating for food stamps passage.

i wish i was the one

Literally.

He should be increasing spending on food stamps.

...and not before....

Fool me once and all that...

i have doubts that he will actually follow through when it comes to the brink.

Stop spying on Americans unconstitutionally and then we'll talk.

Is that like Reid and his 'strongly worded' letters?







"Do or do not. There is no try"
Yoda

but it's the right thing to do.

WE HAVE TO HAVE HIS BACK (to the extent that he follows through).

Republicans want to cut food stamps and at the same time want to prevent abortions after the 20th week, or sooner!

In other words, Republicans want children to be born so that they can die of hunger...how does that make sense?

That's how it makes sense.

New subsidies for agribusiness and government paid crop insurance while piling cuts above and beyond the sequester for hungry Americans. Recently some members of Congress have attempted to live on the $4.50 a day for food. Good luck to them. And they want to cut this by 3%.

to cut food stamps in their version of the bill, too?

be devastated if they lost them.

Not just fake scandals and other shiny things aimed at distracting people from real concerns.

Change!