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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. i'm 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 that it helps? >> well, today we debated the mcgovern amendment for example, and congressman mcgovern ...

Growing concern. i mean, that there are people who care and that we need some answers. >> reporter: now, there's 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. it's 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 first chance since the surge in afghanistan to send that message to president obama about how they wa...

More resources, more lives, on a policy that quite frankly is going to lead us nowhere. we need to let karzai know we're not a cheap date, not a blank check and won't 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 odds with that. >> and congress, if we wanted to, could make a necessary adjustment if it was the ...

Over his policy for the war in afghanistan. what we're 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 we're watching are some other votes we're 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 that's what we're keeping an eye on here, and one of the democrats who is pushing an amendment here would be massachusetts congressman jim mcgovern. what...