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Buried Provision in House GOP Bill Would Cut Off Food Stamps to Entire Families if One Member Strikes
Wednesday 23 March 2011

by: Zaid Jilani | ThinkProgress | Report

All around the country, right-wing legislators are asking middle class Americans to pay for budget deficits caused mainly by a recession caused by Wall Street; they are attacking workers’ collective bargaining rights, which has provoked a huge Main Street Movement to fight back.
Now, a group of House Republicans is launching a new stealth attack against union workers. GOP Reps. Jim Jordan (OH), Tim Scott (SC), Scott Garrett (NJ), Dan Burton (IN), and Louie Gohmert (TX) have introduced H.R. 1135, which states that it is designed to “provide information on total spending on means-tested welfare programs, to provide additional work requirements, and to provide an overall spending limit on means-tested welfare programs.”
Much of the bill is based upon verifying that those who receive food stamps benefits are meeting the federal requirements for doing so. However, one section buried deep within the bill adds a startling new requirement. The bill, if passed, would actually cut off all food stamp benefits to any family where one adult member is engaging in a strike against an employer:

"(3) STRIKING WORKERS INELIGILBE. --- Not-withstanding any other provision of law, no member of a family unit shall participate in the food stamp program at any time that any able-bodied work eligible adult member of such household is on strike as defined in the Labor Management Relations Act, 1947 (29 U.S.C. 142(2)), because of a labor dispute (other than a lockout) as described in section 2(9) of the National Labor Relations Act (19 U.S.C.
( Blatant Acts on the Low and Middle Income )

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Are Wisconsin Republicans trying to usurp a court order to halt their union busting law?

Wisconsin union law published despite court order
By SCOTT BAUER, Associated Press Scott Bauer, Associated Press
2 hrs 18 mins ago

.MADISON, Wis. – Wisconsin officials couldn't agree Friday about whether an explosive law taking away nearly all public worker collective bargaining rights was about to take effect after a nonpartisan legislative bureau published it despite a court order blocking publication.

The Legislative Reference Bureau's action was noted on the state Legislature's website Friday, sending confused lawmakers and legal experts scrambling to determine what's next for the measure that has brought waves of chaos to the state since it first was proposed by Gov. Scott Walker.

Legislative Reference Bureau director Steve Miller insisted the action doesn't mean his action will result in the law taking effect Saturday. He says that won't actually happen until Secretary of State Doug La Follette orders the law published in a newspaper.

"It's not implementation of all," Miller said. "It's simply a matter of forwarding an official copy to the secretary of state."

But La Follette wasn't so sure, saying it wasn't clear what the action means.

"I think we're going to have to get some legal opinion on this," he said.

And Republican Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald said the action means the law takes effect Saturday.
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