2018: Fitzpatrick Voted Against Increasing Work Requirements For Food
Stamps Above The Proposed Requirements In The 2018 House GOP Farm
Bill. In May 2018, Fitzpatrick voted against an amendment that would
have, according to Congressional Quarterly, "reduce[d]
work-requirement exemptions from 15 percent to five percent of SNAP
benefit recipients; would reduce the qualifying age of children from
three-years-old to six-years-old with respect to work
requirement-exempted parents; would set the same hour-per-week work
requirement for married parents as for single parents; and would require
employment and training program participants to have their work
eligibility electronically verified through the E-verify system." The
underlying legislation was the 2018 House GOP farm bill. The House
rejected the amendment by a vote of 83 to 330. [House Vote 195,
5/17/18; Congressional
Quarterly, 5/17/18; Congressional
Actions, H. Amdt.
611;
Congressional Actions, H.R.
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