14 Republican Lawmakers who got $7.2 million in farm subsidies voted to cut food stamps.
“Fourteen GOP lawmakers have received a total of $7.2 million in farm subsidies, according to the available data since 2004, but all voted for an amendment that would have decreased the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program according to a report Rep. George Miller (D-Calif.) is releasing Monday … Rep. Stephen Fincher (R-Tenn.) has received a total of $3.5 million in farm subsidies, according to numbers tracked by the lobbying firm Environmental Working Group. The company points out that according to his congressional filings, his net worth is between $204,995 and $1.1 million. And 22 percent of the residents of Fincher’s home county receive food stamps.”
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Only one of the 14 members listed in the report, Rep. Marlin Stutzman (R-Ind.), voted against the bill when it included SNAP benefits but for it once SNAP was removed.
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Rep. Doug LaMalfa (R-Calif.) received $1.7 million in farm subsidies and resides in a county in which 11 percent of the population receives SNAP benefits.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2013/07/republicans-who-got-farm-subsidies-targeted-94532.html#ixzz2ZmOa0vn3
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Bottom line "they" have no shame ..... overtime pay no way, sticking their noses into women's
health care matters, and now taking away food stamps but taking Fed $s for their farms. 
This is not the party of Dwight Eisenhower or Abe Lincoln.
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