Dems Fight Efforts to Cut Food Stamps

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: October 6, 2005

Filed at 11:56 a.m. ET

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Democrats are fighting attempts to make cuts in food stamps and conservation programs at a time when people are coping with hurricanes and drought.

''Right now the difference between life and death for many Americans is the food stamp program,'' said Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont. ''We should not, we cannot, cut the very nutritional programs that are literally saving lives.''