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Speech you gave to the naacp in georgia which they misconstrued and edited in a misleading way, how ironic is it to you, ms. sherrod, you have real silence from the tea party world on the idea of essentially providing welfare to federal farmers because of something this administration did to them with the tariffs? >> thats exactly what it is, its welfare for people who are well off. you can talk about taking away s.n.a.p. benefits and so forth for the poor, but this is welfare, and no one is thi...

Final stretch in congress, so this has sort of complicated that issue. whats going on? >> separate but related. farm bill comes up every five years, usually a couple of hundred billion dollars. mix is always calculated in part to get political support. so you see a lot of subsidies for various types of farmers, ranchers, things of that nature, but also mixed in is the snap program. thats the food stamp program. you have elms thements from the different districts. what happened this year is you h...

This later in month to put it in place. make no doubt about it, congress will have their say on some of these items as well. >> i like the hot dog capable. i had no idea they were governed by two agencies. what is the reaction? >> betsy devos gave up the thumbs up. she said this proposal will make the federal government more responsive to the needs faced by american students and schools. she said i urge congress to work with the administration to make this proposal a reality. the dnc has given t...

Conservative immigration plan first. house leadership is signaling a willingness to hold votes on immigration next month. >> were working in earnest with our members to try and address all of their concerns about immigration reforms. so those are ongoing conversations. the question is can we get legislation to the floor that has a chance of making it into law. >> on the house floor now lawmakers are debating a five year farm bill extension. it includes work requirements for able-bodied food stam...

S.n.a.p. program, supplemental nutrition assistance program. food stamp usage has now expanded from 17 million people in the year 2000 to 41 million people presently. and now that the economy is roaring, and that the unemployment rate is at a two-decade low, they say its time to impose this work requirement on some recipients. democrats say that this is a heartless requirement. >> this is a bill that is simply mean-spirited and hurts the most vulnerable among us. it cuts s.n.a.p. benefits by $23...

Bill goes to the sup lemental nutrition program. every year republicans try to take an ax to the snap program. last year they succeeded in signing off on cuts of $800 million a year. this time republicans are not seeking cuts to the funding program but instead are hoping to shrink the roles of the americans who receive snap benefits by imposing work requirements. if a family fell short a month, even if they had problem with a paperwork, their hours got cut, that family would lose their benefits ...

Bill goes to the supplemental nutrition program. every year republicans try to take an ax to the snap program. last year they succeeded in signing off on cuts of $800 million a year. this time republicans are not seeking cuts to the funding program but instead are hoping to shrink the roles of the americans who receive snap benefits by imposing work requirements. if a family fell short a month, even if they had problem with a paperwork, their hours got cut, or they needed to care for a sick chil...

Brian: neil ferguson predicted that he wrote a book about it. im in silicon valley they are looking to correct things in the mid terms and they are doing it. ainsley: congressman long said go back and look what conservative sites have you taken down and compare them to the number of liberal sites have you taken down i think you will see a discrepancy there. let us know what you think. brian: if they tried to shut down jillian meles website there would have been outrage. jillian: i would have. no...

Economy. there are great programs where if you are a snap recipient and you are shopping athe a farmer market, you are getting double the amount of your benefit and it goes directly to farmers. there us a multiplier effect. it creates $1.75 of economic activity for every $1 spent through the snap program. we need nutrition. thats really the crux of this here. children, when they go to school, if they have proper breakfast, they actually can learn. we are talking about seniors and people with dis...

Plan. >> i think this plan is absurd. its absurd for so many reasons. number one, a couple years ago when new york city made the move to sort of ban big gulp. now the right is picking winners and loser what is type of foods we eat. they want to get rid of the big government and creating big government. thats number one, number the two other problem with this doesnt also take into consideration what states will have to pay. so who will ship these boxes? how will they get mailed? how will they be ...