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Keep the $20.5 billion from going away. >> let me ask you this, congressman. you unpacked your bags last night. very little food showing dramatically what you can do with $31.50 a week. explain to the audience what you were able to buy. >> well, for -- i focused on breakfast first. i bought two packs of bacon, because i could get two packs for one. and that's going to basically be my meat for the day. i did bring -- i did buy some hot dogs also, maybe about eight of those hot dogs. then i've got some waffles in the morning, some syrup in the morning. some oatmeal in the evenings. and also some...

From those and the country and give it to others in the country. >> it appears to me that the goal of this administration is to expand the roles of people that are on s.n.a.p. benefits. another purpose for that is just to expand the dependency class. >> why don't we just pay for your clothes, pay for your shoes, pay for your housing? >> these republicans are shameless. they have no idea what it's like to wonder where your next meal is coming from. why don't they try to live on the average food stamp benefit of just $31.50 a week? that's exactly what 26 house democrats are doing, starting today...

>> it's going to be a challenge. i certainly will not be eating three meals a day. i will eat in the morning, and then i will eat in the evening. >> three meals a day. that hardly seems like too much to ask in the greatest and most powerful nation on earth. joining me now is that lawmaker you just saw, congressman hank johnson from georgia, and richard wolffe, executive editor of msnbc.com. thank you both for being here tonight. >> thank you, reverend. >> congressman, do you think republicans would pass these food stamp cuts if they had to live on $31.50 a week? >> no, i really don't. and the ...

Can eat for the period of time that they have the finances to pay for it. . >> you know, richard, when the congressman says that let me give you the facts, the numbers, that food stamp recipients versus lawmakers, weekly food stamps benefit, $31.50, as i said, $31.50 a week. the medium net worth of a member of congress is $966,000 a year. you talking about almost a million dollars a year, medium income. you're talking about net worth here, not a year, of about a million dollars median income for members of congress. and you're talking about these are the people that are going to vote to cut $3...

-- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com i'm erin burnett. vultures dive bombing the carcass. just an image. makes me think of the field growing up, dead deer, entrails everywhere, that's what it looks like for facebook. at least three lawsuits filed in connection to the ipo. and plus investigations by the securities and exchange commission and the massachusetts secretary of the commonwealth and of course headlines like these on the front pages. the best went to cnn money. oh, zuck. inside facebook's fumble and "the washington post" called it a debacle. here's where the stock closed t...