28 Senate Democrats vote with Republicans to cut Food Stamps.

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74. Thanks. That link provides more specific info. Looks like this was doubly bad

since a vote for Gillibrand's amendment would also have reduced corporate farm subsidies as an offset to restoring food stamp funding. Glad to see Murray and Cantwell voted for the amendment.



http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/05/21/1210783/-Which-Democrats-Just-Voted-against-Food-Stamps

However, the amendment on which I would like to focus attention here is that of Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY). Gillibrand proposed to restore the $4 billion that the current farm bill--designed by Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) and Thad Cochran (R-MS)--cuts from SNAP (Supplemental Food Assistance, known as food stamps--as I indicated above) and to offset this restored funding with a limitation on crop insurance reimbursements. Our current crop insurance subsidies benefit large farms at the expense of smaller ones and are one of the many glaring manifestations of corporate welfare that Congress never fixes. Gillibrand's amendment would, in essence, cut corporate welfare spending to restore social welfare spending. Did this progressive proposal pass? Not even close. It failed 26-70: not even a majority of Democrats voted for it.