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NEW POLL OVERVIEW:<br />
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A pair of amendments proposed by a congressional tea party house member that would cut food-stamp funding from the 2013 farm bill.<br />
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Republican Representative Marlin Stutzman of Indiana proposed the amendments Monday to the five-year farm bill, splitting food-stamp policy from the rest of the bill, creating what he described as a &quot;farm-only</span><span style="font-size: large;">&quot;</span><span style="font-size: large;"> farm bill.<br />
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Congress has had the practice in the past of combining farm policy and nutrition policy into a single bill that in the current bill before congress spends $740 billion on food stamps and $200 billion on farm policy. <br />
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The amendment would overturn years of farm policy precedent by taking the non-farm components out of the bill.<br />
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Representatives from urban liberal districts vote for the bill because of its food-stamp spending, while those from conservative rural areas vote for the farm subsidies.<br />
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NEW POLL QUESTION:<br />
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Should Congress remove non-farm related appropriations from the </span><span style="font-size: large;">&quot;</span><span style="font-size: large;">Farm Bill</span><span style="font-size: large;">&quot;</span><span style="font-size: large;"> by creating a </span><span style="font-size: large;">&quot;</span><span style="font-size: large;">Farm Only</span><span style="font-size: large;">&quot;</span><span style="font-size: large;"> bill?<br />
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PREVIOUS POLL QUESTION:<br />
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Should the legislature pass a bill to allow 16 &amp; 17 year olds to preregister to vote?<br />
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Yes - 18%<br />
No - 78%<br />
Undecided - 5% <br />
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ONE COMMENT WAS MADE ON THIS POLL QUESTION:<br />
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Preregistration of people not qualified to vote<br />
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What purpose would preregistration of 16 and 17 year olds to vote serve? Is this to set a precedent for the pre-registration of others not qualified to be added to the voter rolls? Is this to create a basis for a lawsuit to attempt to gain an ability to vote by categories of individuals not qualified to vote based upon age, citizenship or incarceration in prison? Is this to make it easier for non qualified people to vote if their names are somehow placed on the voting rolls as </span><span style="font-size: large;">&quot;</span><span style="font-size: large;">preregistered</span><span style="font-size: large;">&quot;</span><span style="font-size: large;">? What knuckle heads sponsored this bill?<br />
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Shall we next consider preregistration to drive, preregistration to marry, preregistration to divorce, and most important: the preregistration of non-citizens to vote?<br />
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