overpaid $20 million. they had no major overpayments in food stamps or school national lunch programs. so nia-malika, when we start hearing republicans complain about the waste in farm aid? unlikely. there are some republicans who do look at the farm assistance and feel like there are too many subsidies involved in that. but primarily, they have been looking at food stamps, wanting to cut, some want to cut them more. in fact, it s hard to imagine that a bill like this would pass the senate. it will be debated this month. the current bill expires on september 30. so i think we re at the beginning of a conversation about food stamps. and hopefully, it will reflect the reality. if you look at a map of where people actually receive food stamps, it s primarily the majority of folks or the highest incidents of people who receive food stamps are in states in the south, states like mississippi, kentucky so what s the politics of that, nia-malika? how does that play out
especially pay $12.50 per hour. but right now we re sitting on $1.5 billion on our rainy day fund and coming off $800 million in surpluses over the last four fiscal years. our ceo projected surpluses in the next four fiscal years. still, it could be nice to have such an employer in the washington area to create all of these jobs. just take a look at the bigger picture. if washington, d.c., controls the amount of money that private companies pay their employees, you know, big picture here, might it keep other companies out? well, the big picture here is that walmart provides poverty wages. folks cannot live off of poverty wages. those poverty wages causes employees to seek government assistance. the use of food stamps program, the school and breakfast lunch programs, the section 8 housing programs. so, at the end of the day, the citizens, the taxpayers wind up
secret wiretaps approved. cops claim it is part of their ongoing efforts to track down terror cells. critics say it means innocent muslims are being targeted. new york mayor and police commissioner ray kelly says they only follow leads to fight terrorism. in a few hours closing arguments will begin in a penalty case for nadal hassan. he gave up his last plans to defend himself yesterday resting his case during his sentencing without speaking. ma family members of the victims took the stand describing their days since the deadly shooting. the trial resumes at 10:00 a.m. eastern time today. the pizza is coming off the menus at a lot of schools across the country. several districts requeare quit the healthy lunch programs. the reason students say they don t want it. a lot of districts say their
associate director of the center for educational freedom at the caddo institute. is this overreach now? it is. it epitomizes the nanny state. states said we ll take federal money for subsidized lunches. over time they have to be more and more nutritious. now they say if you want the money, you have to change what s in the vending machine. the problem is kids aren t eating healthy oceans. they say, we re like your parents, you listen to us. i would imagine most kids get most of their calories a day outside the home, wouldn t you think? quite possibly. there are breakfast programs in school, lunch programs and maybe they get dinner somewhere else, breakfast somewhere else. what we are likely to see is they are going to supplement a lot of the food they are supposed to be getting in school with food they want to eat,
it happens all the time, but because it s so rare that we see congress working the way it s supposed to work. this is how they re supposed to work every day. find common ground, get things done, work out reasonable solutions and we re practically having a party because they did it once. but i guess i m asking you, do you think they could do it again? are we going to see some other cuts be restored in this kind of a way, whether it s cuts to the pentagon or whether it s cuts to school lunch programs, stuff like that? is this a model where all of a sudden, congress comes together and says, you know what? let s go back and let s get that money to the people so that they can do what they need to do? i don t know. i mean, i think i keep coming back to the point of, you know, what hits harder not only on congress people but on their most important constituents. by most important, i just mean, you know, money, voting than