2018: Schweikert Voted To Increase Work Requirements For Food Stamps Above The Proposed Requirements In The 2018 House GOP Farm Bill. In May 2018, Schweikert voted for 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. 2]