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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Arial"><span style="font-size: xx-large; ">He says that the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), also known as the food stamp program, is aimed at helping people in need, and that Congress must ensure those benefits are not being diverted.</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Arial"><span style="font-size: xx-large; ">His proposed legislation would require anyone who utilizes federal food stamps to show a photo ID when they use their electronic benefit cards (EBCs) to buy groceries.</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Arial"><span style="font-size: xx-large; ">His bill would simply require the use of a photo ID of the authorized user of SNAP electronic benefit card at the point of the transaction.</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Arial"><span style="font-size: xx-large; ">A recent Government Accountability Office report found that $2.2 billion in food stamp benefits were improperly handed out in 2009. He said current law requires efforts to ensure food stamps are only given to eligible people, but said there is no requirement that recipients show their ID when buying food.</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Arial"><span style="font-size: xx-large; ">Salmon said this loophole allows unauthorized people to use EBCs to buy food, and said the illegal selling of these cards contributes to $750 million in losses each year.</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Arial"><span style="font-size: xx-large; ">The bill was introduced just days after Congress approved a farm bill that authorizes about $80 billion in spending on SNAP each year, for the next five years.&nbsp;</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Arial"><span style="font-size: xx-large; ">Currently none of the Congressional members serving in WashinGton from Michigan have asked to be named as co-sponsors of the bill.</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Arial; color: #2d2d2d"><span style="font-size: xx-large; ">62% - Require the use of the bathroom that corresponds to your birth sex.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Arial; color: #2d2d2d"><span style="font-size: xx-large; ">13% - Schools should create a common bathroom for all transgendered individuals.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Arial; color: #2d2d2d"><span style="font-size: xx-large; ">10% - Schools should make all bathrooms unisex.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Arial; color: #2d2d2d"><span style="font-size: xx-large; ">10% - Undecided</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Arial; color: #2d2d2d"><span style="font-size: xx-large; ">3% - Schools should allow transgendered students to use the bathroom opposite of their birth sex.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Arial; color: #2d2d2d"><span style="font-size: xx-large; ">3% - Schools should create separate transgendered bathrooms for each sex.</span></p>
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