Mcgovern Amendment News Today

Going through the food stamp challenge again. really reminds me of what it takes, the -- the weariness, the hassle. how do you do this on 450 a day. im off of it tomorrow morning. think of the millions of people who see no end in sight, that is the tragedy about this. >> what is your understanding of what the motivation is of your colleagues who are trying to cut the program and have any been receptive across the aisle to your arguments for just how vital and necessary this is for the people tha...

Growing concern. i mean, that there are people who care and that we need some answers. >> reporter: now, theres another more liberal amendment that will be up for a vote that would completely strike all money for the war in afghanistan. that is not expected to pass. its still expected to get a significant amount of votes, not as much as mcgovern amendment, but the point here, suzanne, is that this is a message that these anti-war democrats are sending to the white house. this is really their fir...

More resources, more lives, on a policy that quite frankly is going to lead us nowhere. we need to let karzai know were not a cheap date, not a blank check and wont be here forever and ever. we expect him to clean up his government. this is not a guy we should be sacrificing our young men and women in the field of battle for. >> reporter: president obama and general petraeus have left the door open to if conditions change, they may change that july 2011 plan. that amendment puts you directly at ...

Over his policy for the war in afghanistan. what were going to be seeing tonight is a vote to add 33 bill monior dollars for the par to pay in afghanistan, and keeping in mind, sources are telling us that they expect that this will be passion, albeit narrowly, but what were watching are some other votes were seeing. anti-war democrats are going to be given at least a couple of chances to add timetables maybe or conditions to this money, so thats what were keeping an eye on here, and one of the d...