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Have the security you need to get you there. call us. we can show you how at&t solutions can help you do what you do... even better. ♪ thanks for disrupting your afternoon, i'm karen finney. don't worry, mr. boehner. if that job as speaker doesn't work out, i heard there's an opening at the food network. >> what is happening on the floor today is a demonstration of major amateur hour. >> never an intention for our side to say we want to take away the safety net of the food stamp program. >> by requiring work for abled body snap recipients. >> this amendment would increase the snap cuts by ...

And security. joining us is jim mcgovern who voted against the farm bill and those snap cuts. nice to have you, congressman. >> happy to be with you. >> i actually challenged any member of congress seeking to cut snap to first take what they call the food stamp challenge. this is something you and your wife actually took several years ago. what did you learn from that experience? >> we learned it's awfully hard to be poor. you can't afford healthy food. you can't afford very much of food. i mean, the average food stamp benefit today is about $4.50 a day. $1.50 per meal. it's not a lot. i wan...

Democrats in the senate. now, just a reminder. down at the bottom of the screen, we're running the names and twitter handles of the 36 members of the house ago cult rat committee who voted for the farm bill and the $20 billion in snap cuts out of committee. just in case any of y'all want to, you know, tweet them or e-mail them or contact them. so the senate, too, is playing this game. it feels to me particularly when you go after ex-felons, there's no money in this. this is really just about demonizing the need for help. >> it's unrealistic. in our state in virginia, governor mcdonnell, a repu...

Know that s.n.a.p. cuts are come and kids are starving. that should be the war on christmas. >> and you would think o'reilly might want to revisit or attend the play or watch the movie "a christmas story" by charles dickens. there's the message. you remember the line of e ebeneezer scrooge. maybe that's what we should call him, scrooge o'reilly. remember the line there, well, don't they have poor houses, poor prisons, prisons for those people who are -- debtor prisons, that's the word. that's the attitude. charles dickens wrote that story because of what england was going through at the time r...