states, montana, connecticut, massachusetts, new york, oregon, pen, rhode island, and vermont expanded their heating aid in order to maintain food stamp benefits for their poorer citizens. this move did not sit well with house speaker john boehner. since the passage of the farm bill, states have found ways to cheat once again on signing up people for food stamps. i would hope that the house would act to try to stop this cheating and this fraud from continuing. for governors this wasn t about cheating. it was about maintaining a lifeline for poor people who desperately needed the assistance. and it wasn t just democrats. pennsylvania s republican governor tom corbett, a tea party ally, is one of the governors who moved to preserve food stamp benefits for his state. now let s take another look at that map. most of the states that made the move to maintain food stamp benefits are concentrated in one region, the northeast. but there is one state in that region, a state that a governor
congress figured the states wouldn t pony up the extra money. but then a funny thing happened. many of the states whose poor residents are still poor and are losing out as a result of the cuts, they rebelled. the governors of at least eight states, montana, connecticut, massachusetts, new york, oregon, pen, rhode island, and vermont expanded their heating aid in order to maintain food stamp benefits for their poorer citizens. this move did not sit well with house speaker john boehner. since the passage of the farm bill, states have found ways to cheat once again on signing up people for food stamps. i would hope that the house would act to try to stop this cheating and this fraud from continuing. for governors this wasn t about cheating. it was about maintaining a lifeline for poor people who desperately needed the assistance. and it wasn t just democrats. pennsylvania s republican governor tom corbett, a tea party ally, is one of the governors who moved to preserve food stamp bene
residents are still poor and are losing out as a result of the cuts, they rebelled. the governors of at least eight states, montana, connecticut, massachusetts, new york, oregon, pen, rhode island, and vermont expanded their heating aid in order to maintain food stamp benefits for their poorer citizens. this move did not sit well with house speaker john boehner. since the passage of the farm bill, states have found ways to cheat once again on signing up people for food stamps. i would hope that the house would act to try to stop this cheating and this fraud from continuing. for governors this wasn t about cheating. it was about maintaining a lifeline for poor people who desperately needed the assistance. and it wasn t just democrats. pennsylvania s republican governor tom corbett, a tea party ally, is one of the governors who moved to preserve food stamp benefits for his state.
perry criticized president obama s backing of a now defunct and wildly known energy company while trying to recall exactly how much federal funding that company received, perry said, i m quoting here, i want to say it was over $500 million that went to the country solyda. solyndra received $535 million in federal loan guarantees before going bankrupt earlier this year. meanwhile, the budget battle in washington could hit home in a bitter reality for thousands of northeast residents as they consider drastic cuts for home heating aid for those that can least afford it. due to rising energy costs, several northeast states have cut back on heating aid to the poor and congress is considering slashing $1 billion from the federal budget. families in new england where the winters are long and cold and people rely heavily on costly oil heat are expected to be especially hard hit.