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2007
HNR: Farm Bill Movement in the Senate (9/17/07) HNR: House Enacts Long-Overdue Food Stamp Improvements (8/3/07) HNR: Farm Bill: House Committee Sends Bill With Nutrition Improvements to House Floor (7/23/07) HNR: House Takes First Step to Reauthorize Food Stamp and Other Nutrition Programs (6/15/07) HNR: Nutrition Bill Introduced in the House (05/04/07)
2005
HNR: House and Senate to Attempt Passing a Final Bill Cutting Aid to Poor (12/9/05) NYTimes Ed: Profiles in Pusillanimity (12/6/05) NYTimes: GOP Forces $50 Billion in Budget Cuts Through House (11/18/05) HNR: House Leadership Can't Dig Up Votes to Slash Medicaid, Child Support, Food Stamps, SSI, and Foster Care (11/11/05) Philadelphia Inquirer Editorial: Budget Cuts - Children and Poor Unfairly Targeted (11/9/05) Houston Chronicle Editorial: GOP Budget Will Harm Children to Finance Tax Cuts for Top Earners (11/9/05) NYTimes Editorial: Congress' Sham Budget (11/6/05) WashPost: Food Stamp and Other Cuts on Table (11/3/05) HNR: House Committees Slash Medicaid, Child Support, SSI and Foster Care; Reduce Planned Increases for Child Care (10/28/05) HNR: Senate Budget Committee Approves Nearly $40 Billion in Cuts to Entitlement Program (10/28/05) HNR: Final Conference Agreement on WIC Spending Approved In House (10/28/05) WashPost: Republicans Cut Student Aid; Foster Care; Child Support and Other Programs (10/26/05) WashPost: House GOP Leaders Postpone Vote on Reductions in Spending (10/20/05) WP: Senate Plan to Cut Food Stamps Dies (10/19/05) HNR: House Presses for Even Larger Cuts to Low-Income Services (10/14/05) HNR: Conservatives Continue to Press for Cuts to Low-Income Services and New Tax Breaks for Wealthy (9/30/05) HNR: Hurricane Victims Needing Help Encounter Red Tape, Courtesy of White House, Congress (9/30/05) HNR: Washington Focuses on Aiding Gulf Coast Victims (9/16/05) HNR: Reconciliation Delayed: Congress Puts Off Cuts to Food Stamps and Medicaid (9/16/05) NYTimes Editorial: Congress Finesses the Storm (9/14/05) Michigan, Advocacy Groups, To Fight Possible Cuts In Food Stamps (9/11/05) WashPost: Critical Votes on Budget Cuts Loom for Republicans (8/28/05) Arkansas Democrat Gazette Op-Ed: Food Stamps Threatened (8/21/05) NYT Op-Ed: Agriculture Cuts Should Not Come Out Of Food Stamps (8/17/05) Reuters: As Congress Cuts USDA Budget; Food Stamps Eyed (7/27/05) WP: Hungry Kids, Greedy Farm Lobby (7/25/05) WP Op-Ed: In Defense of Success: Government Really Can Lessen Poverty (7/19/05) HNR: Bill Funding Nutrition Programs Advances in the Senate (7/1/05) HNR: House Approves Agriculture Spending Bill (6/17/05) FRAC: Hunger Awareness Day, June 7 (press release 5/24/05) HNR: Reconciliation Instructions Put Human Needs Programs at Risk (5/20/05) NY Times: Under New Medicare Drug Plan, Food Stamps May Be Reduced (5/8/05) HNR: Congress Approves a Final Budget Resolution (4/29/05) WP: GOP Leaders Reach Budget Deal (4/28/05) WP Editorial: Worse Than No Budget (4/28/05) HNR: Budget Conference Committee to Contemplate Deep Cuts to Human Needs Programs (4/15/05) HNR: FY 2006 Budget Resolutions Clear House, Senate Floor (4/1/05) HNR: House and Senate Committees Pass Budget Resolutions for FY 2006 (3/11/05) Times and Democrat (SC): DSS Directors Weigh in Food Stamp Eligibility Rules in Bush Budget (2/28/05) HNR: Deep Cuts in the President's Budget; Committees Ready to Act (2/25/05)
2004
HNR: Congress Passes Massive Spending Bill (11/24/04) Florida: Food Stamp Recipients to Get Extra Benefit Due to Recent Hurricanes (9/17/04) WP: Food Prices Surge (5/2/04)
2003
HNR: House Subcommittee Passes Agriculture Appropriations Bill (6/23/03)
2002
HNR: Senate Committee Approves FY 2003 Agriculture Appropriations (8/2/02) HNR: President Bush Signs Farm Bill (5/24/02)
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