Bruce Poliquin tries again to win support for bill to target food stamp fraud

A proposal by a Maine Republican congressman would disqualify anyone with a felony conviction for trafficking drugs from receiving food stamps, forever.

“This will help make sure limited welfare benefits are saved to compassionately help moms and dads put food on the table for hungry kids,” U.S. Rep. Bruce Poliquin said on the House floor as he reintroduced a bill that went nowhere last year.

The congressman called it “a Maine common-sense solution to a national problem.”

Poliquin’s Food Stamp Integrity Act, which has four co-sponsors, is before the House Agriculture Committee.

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