<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=iso-8859-1"><base href="x-msg://371/"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Our Congressional representative, Rodney Davis (IL-13) voted FOR this bill. 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font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; ">Thursday, September 19, 2013 6:29 PM EDT</span></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" id="AssetBody" width="500" style="position: static; z-index: auto; "><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: georgia, serif; "><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="position: static; z-index: auto; "><tbody><tr><td style="padding-bottom: 11px; width: 490px !important; "><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; "><tbody><tr><td><a href="http://p.nytimes.com/email/re?location=4z5Q7LhI+KVBjmEgFdYACAaZP7LuVVZVKH7pilVGwlx6QBySJtlV3nWLscYhP4mB&campaign_id=132&instance_id=32459&segment_id=50614&user_id=198124ce8b2571ff930f1d2d1d2fc881®i_id=617704" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 1); text-decoration: none; font-size: 24px; line-height: 30px; text-align: left; ">House Passes Bill Cutting $40 Billion From Food Stamps</a><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" id="summary" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; font-size: 15px; margin-top: 11px; "><tbody><tr><td style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; font-size: 15px; padding: 4px 0px 12px; ">House Republicans narrowly pushed through a bill on Thursday that slashes billions of dollars from the food stamp program, over the objections of Democrats and a veto threat from President Obama. The vote set up what promised to be a contentious fight with the Senate and dashed hopes for passage this year of a new five-year farm bill.</td></tr><tr><td style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; font-size: 15px; padding: 4px 0px 12px; ">The vote was 217 to 210.</td></tr><tr><td style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; font-size: 15px; padding: 4px 0px 12px; ">The bill would cut $40 billion from the food stamp program over the next 10 years. It would also require adults between 18 and 50 without minor children to find a job or to enroll in a work training program in order to receive benefits. It would also limit the time those recipients could get benefits to three months.</td></tr><tr><td style="color: rgb(0, 0, 1); font-family: arial, helvetica, 'sans serif'; font-size: 11px; padding: 3px 0px 11px; "><h4 style="color: rgb(0, 0, 1); font-weight: bold; margin: 5px 0px 2px; ">READ MORE »</h4><a href="http://p.nytimes.com/email/re?location=4z5Q7LhI+KVBjmEgFdYACAaZP7LuVVZVKH7pilVGwlx6QBySJtlV3nWLscYhP4mB&campaign_id=132&instance_id=32459&segment_id=50614&user_id=198124ce8b2571ff930f1d2d1d2fc881®i_id=617704" style="color: rgb(0, 66, 118); text-decoration: none; ">http://www.nytimes.com?emc=edit_na_20130919</a></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><div><div style="text-align: center; "><div style="text-align: center; "></div></div></div><img height="1" src="http://pixel.monitor1.returnpath.net/pixel.gif?r=9dbaad520ccf62ad66a806f22f1f3b4689e74e0c&s=galliher@uiuc.edu&id=617704&gender=0" width="1"><br></div></div><img src="http://p.nytimes.com/email/re?location=hdaNaYedr2/IomeWRKt0nffrak8aSGLbvtkkq/r7ihwOf5XePlpJ1w==&campaign_id=132&instance_id=32459&segment_id=50614&user_id=198124ce8b2571ff930f1d2d1d2fc881®i_id=617704"></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>