Lawmakers “Representing” Most of the Hungriest Counties Voted to Cut SNAP
By: Mary Ellen Kustin, Legislative/Policy Analyst
Friday, September 20, 2013
If you live in one of America’s 100 hungriest counties, there is a one-in-three chance that you rely on food stamps.
There is also a pretty good chance that your member of Congress just voted to kick you off food stamps.
And, if you live in Haywood County, Tennessee, or Shannon County, South Dakota, you can be sure your representative not only voted to kick you off food stamps but also voted to give him- or herself more farm subsidies.
Sadly, two-thirds of the 39 legislators who represent America’s 100 hungriest counties voted yesterday to cut funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly known as food stamps, by $40 billion over the next ten years.
What’s more, the same legislators voted last month to increase unlimited subsidies for the largest farm businesses at a time of record farm income.
Two of the members with the hungriest counties in their districts not only voted to increase farm subsidies for their wealthy neighbors. They also voted to increase subsidies for themselves.
As EWG has reported, at least 15 members of Congress or their spouses received a total of $237,921 in farm subsidies in 2012. Ten of the 11 representatives who personally received farm subsidies voted yesterday (Sept. 19) to cut food stamps after voting to extend farm subsidies earlier this summer.
Members of Congress with one or more of the 100 hungriest counties in their districts
Vote on “SNAP only” H.R. 3102
(passed 217-210)
Vote on “farm only” H.R. 2642
(passed 216-208)
Vote on crop insurance reform amendment to H.R. 1947
(failed 208-217)
Rep. Rodney Alexander (R-La.)
Yea
Yea
Nay
Rep. Andy Barr (R-Ky.)
Yea
Yea
Nay
Rep. John Barrow (D-Ga.)
Nay
Nay
Nay
Rep. Sanford Bishop, Jr. (D-Ga.)
Nay
Nay
Nay
Rep. Diane Black (R-Tenn.)
Yea
Yea
Yea
Rep. Paul Broun (R-Ga.)
Yea
no vote
Yea
Rep. G.K. Butterfield (D-N.C.)
Nay
Nay
Nay
Rep. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.V.)
Nay
Yea
Nay
Rep. William “Lacy” Clay, Jr. (D-Mo.)
Nay
Nay
Yea
Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-S.C.)
Nay
Nay
Nay
Rep. Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.)
Yea
Yea
Nay
Rep. Rick Crawford (R-Ark.)
Yea
Yea
Nay
Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-Texas)
Nay
Nay
Nay
Rep. Steve Daines (R-Mont.)
Yea
Yea
Nay
Rep. Scott DesJarlais (R-Tenn.)
Yea
Yea
Nay
Rep. William Enyart (D-Ill.)
Nay
Nay
Nay
Rep. Stephen Fincher (R-Tenn.)
Yea
Yea
Nay
Rep. Chuck Fleischmann (R-Tenn.)
Yea
Yea
Yea
Rep. Jeff Fortenberry (R-Neb.)
Nay
Yea
Nay
Rep. Pete Gallego (D-Texas)
Nay
Nay
Nay
Rep. Michelle Lujan Grisham (D-N.M.)
Nay
Nay
Nay
Rep. Gregg Harper (R-Miss.)
Yea
Yea
Nay
Rep. Rubén Hinojosa (D-Texas)
Nay
Nay
Nay
Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick (D-Ariz.)
Nay
Nay
Nay
Rep. Ben Lujan (D-N.M.)
Nay
Nay
Yea
Rep. Mick Mulvaney (R-S.C.)
Yea
Yea
Nay
Rep. Kristi Noem (R-S.D.)
Yea
Yea
Nay
Rep. Nick Rahall (D-W.V.)
Nay
Nay
Nay
Rep. Reid Ribble (R-Wis.)
Yea
Yea
Nay
Rep. Martha Roby (R-Ala.)
Yea
Yea
Nay
Rep. Phil Roe (R-Tenn.)
Yea
Yea
Nay
Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Ala.)
Yea
Yea
Nay
Rep. Harold Rogers (R-Ky.)
Yea
Yea
Nay
Rep. Austin Scott (R-Ga.)
Yea
Yea
Nay
Rep. Terri Sewell (D-Ala.)
Nay
Nay
Nay
Rep. Jason Smith (R-Mo.)
Yea
Yea
Nay
Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.)
Nay
Nay
Nay
Rep. Filemon Vela (D-Texas)
Nay
Nay
Nay
Rep. Don Young (R-Alaska)
Nay
Yea
Nay
via Lawmakers “Representing” Most of the Hungriest Counties Voted to Cut SNAP | Environmental Working Group.
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