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11/17/06 - FRAC Alert: Vote Now for Food Stamps to Be a National Coalition Priority
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11/09/06 - FRAC Alert: Post Election Appropriations Outlook » more

8/03/06 - FRAC Alert: Senate to Vote on Minimum Wage Increase and Estate Taxes
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7/28/06 - FRAC Alert: Oppose Sunset Commission
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5/26/06 - FRAC Alert: FRAC's FY 2007 Appropriations Update: Action Needed during the Memorial Day Recess to Support Critical Nutrition Program Funding
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5/04/06 - FRAC Alert: House Subcommittee Passes FY 2007 Funding for Nutrition Programs
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3/17/06 - FRAC’s FY 2007 Program Priorities for the Agriculture Appropriations Subcommittees
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3/03/06 - FRAC Alert: FY 2007 Budget Message: Protect Food and Nutrition Programs
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2/01/06 - FRAC Alert: Congress Passes Budget Reconciliation for FY 2006 – Presidential Signature Expected Shortly
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1/26/06 - FRAC Alert: Vote Scheduled for February 1 to Cut Human Needs Programs to Fund Tax Cuts for the Wealthy; House Gets Another Shot at Defeating FY 2006 Budget Reconciliation Bill » more

12/19/05 - FRAC Alert: Budget-Cutting Reconciliation Bill Passes the House – Senate to Take Up Today. Action Needed Immediately! » more

12/07/05 - FRAC Alert: Urge your members of Congress to tell conferees that they oppose any food stamp cuts. Use FRAC’s new resource containing columns, editorials, and op-eds opposing cuts to the Food Stamp Program. » more

12/02/05 - FRAC Alert: Support the Senate position of “zero” cuts in food stamps. Urge Members of Congress (both Senators and Representatives) to oppose any food stamp cuts in the budget reconciliation conference report. » more

11/15/05 - FRAC Alert: TAKE ACTION – House Budget Reconciliation Bill still slashes food stamps for 300,000 people. Urge your U.S. Representative to “VOTE NO” on budget reconciliation and speak out against any food stamp cuts. » more

11/10/05 - FRAC Alert: House Rules Budget Bill Still Contains Large and Damaging Food Stamp Cuts

10/27/05 - View Letter to Representatives Bob Goodlatte and Collin Peterson in Support of Federal Nutrition Programs. Members of the House urge Chairman Goodlatte and Ranking Member Peterson “to keep any cuts to federal food programs as close to zero as possible and oppose changes in eligibility requirements that would jeopardize the integrity and character of these assistance programs.”

9/7/05 - View the Food Stamp Support Letter which will be delivered to key House & Senate members throughout September.

8/15/05 - August Recess Activities in Support of Food Stamp Program (Updated)8/3/05 - House Minority Lawmakers Call for Protection of Food Stamp Program. See news release, Tri-Caucus Food Stamp Letter, signature list.

8/3/05 - August Recess Activities in Support of Food Stamp Program

5/24/05 - On Hunger Awareness Day,
June 7, 2005, Protect America's Nutrition Safety Net
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5/20/05 - Why Food Stamps Matter: Talking Points
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5/12/05 - FRAC's Agriculture Appropriations (Discretionary Program) Priorities for FY2006
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4/29/05 - Congressional Negotiators Brokered a Conference Agreement on the FY 2006 Budget Resolution
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3/18/05 - Senate amendment to protect ag and nutrition programs from $2.8 billion in cuts fails.
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3/17/05 - Senate vote expected TODAY on Baucus Amendment to strike $2.8 Billion Cuts to Agriculture and Nutrition Programs
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3/15/05 - Farm, nutrition, and conservation groups express their disappointment with Congressional cuts to nutrtition programs.
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3/10/05 - House and Senate Budget Committees Pass Deep Spending Cuts
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3/09/05 - House welfare (TANF) bill poses a threat to the Food Stamp Program’s ability to meet need. The legislation gives extraordinary authority for federal agencies to waive rules in the Food Stamp and other programs.
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3/07/05 - Our petition to the Senate and House Budget Committees was signed by 218 nutrition, farm, and conservation groups across the U.S. in opposition to cuts to the federal nutrition and other programs. » Letter to the Budget Committees

3/02/05 - The food stamp and other programs face possible cuts when the House and Senate Budget Committees are expected to review and vote on the FY 2006 Budget Resolution during the week of
March 7. » more

2/18/05 - House Ag Committee urges to "let programs operate as designed"
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2/14/05 - President's budget released with food stamp spending
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2/3/05 - More than 100 Nutrition, Farm, and Conservation Groups Say No to Food and Other Program Cuts or Restructurings
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1/13/05 - State Lawmakers Tell Congress Food Stamp Cuts 'Unacceptable'
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1/05 - The budget fight ahead in 2005

1/21/05 - With budget discussions heating up, it is critical for groups to generate letters, calls and visits to Members of Congress.

3/2/05 - The House and Senate Budget Committees are expected to review and vote on the budget during the week of March 7. Sign our petition. Join National Budget Call-in Day.

3/11/05 - House and Senate floor votes on the FY 2006 Budget Resolution are expected during the week of March 14th.

3/16/05 - Sen. Baucus (D-MT) will be offering an amendment as early as 6:00 p.m. tonight to the Senate Budget Resolution that would strike the $2.8 billion cuts to the Senate Agriculture Committee, which oversees food and nutrition programs.

3/17/05 - Urge your senators to vote "YES" on Senator Baucus' amendment that would strike the $2.8 billion cuts to the Senate Agriculture Committee.

3/23/05 - With lawmakers home for the two-week Congressional recess period (March 19th through April 4th), federal legislation threatening the national nutrition safety net will be taken up when they return and is at a critical juncture.

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