Lucas,
When I think of children hurting from the pangs of not having enough to eat, looking into a parent's eyes and saying, "Mommy, I'm hungry" – I can't help but imagine how I would feel if my children ever said that to me
This week, the Senate Agriculture Committee approved the Farm Bill with $4.1 billion in cuts to SNAP Benefits – more commonly known as food stamps. I voted against it.
Nearly three out of four families on food stamps have children. This bill would eliminate food stamps for 500,000 of them. It takes food from families led by single parents, families hit hardest by the economic collapse and military veterans and their families, 1.5 million of which were on SNAP in 2011.
I've offered an amendment to restore this funding, but I need your voice behind it before next week's vote before the full Senate. VoteVets.org is with me on this. Can we count on you?
No child should have to go to bed hungry. No parent should have to know the pain of sending a child to bed without enough food, because there isn't any.
My amendment restores these funds without adding even a penny to the national debt, asking any sacrifice of our hardworking farmers or raising taxes on anybody. These cuts are unnecessarily deep and unnecessarily cruel.
We have to stop them. Help by adding your support now.
Tell the Senate: Draconian cuts to food stamps must be reversed in the final Farm Bill.
Thank you for your support on this critical issue,
Kirsten