During the longest shutdown in American history, the House held no recorded votes between September 19 and November 12, 2025. Utah's congressman said there was no reason to come back — and called the standoff a breath-holding contest.
The Let's Get to Work Act would push SNAP work rules up to age 60, cut the exemption for parents down to kids under 6, and apply the same rules to public housing and Section 8 vouchers. It is Rick Scott's bill; Kennedy filed the House version six weeks into his first term.
H.R. 8953 would let a state require a photo ID, a piece of mail, or residency papers before a pantry hands out free food — reversing a USDA rule barring identification documents as an eligibility test. Yakym is the only sponsor. The problem he describes is people going to more than one pantry.
The House passed Crawford's rotisserie chicken amendment 384-35. It adds no money and helps nobody who has already been cut off — but the National Chicken Council loved it, and Tyson is on his donor list.
The farm supports went into Trump's budget bill and passed with a simple majority. Food aid got cut $187 billion. Then Frank Lucas voted for a 'skinny' farm bill that doesn't put back a dime — while 45,277 households in his own district are on SNAP.
The Senate Agriculture Committee's farm bill died 10-11. Tuberville was present for other parts of the markup but not for the final vote. Updated August 22: all eight of Alabama's food banks asked him by name for a SNAP waiver. Britt — who isn't on the Agriculture Committee — replied. Tuberville, who is, did not.
Pillen turned down federal summer grocery money for Nebraska's low-income kids in December 2023. He reversed two months later — after a petition and after sitting down with children who were living it. The program he blocked delivered nearly $24 million in its first summer.
Valadao's Central Valley district has one of the highest SNAP rates in the country. He cast a deciding vote for the bill that cut it — the House passed it 215 to 214 — and told HuffPost the drop in enrollment doesn't worry him.
Unemployment hasn't moved. Grocery prices keep climbing. But SNAP enrollment has collapsed by 11% since Republicans passed their budget bill — and in Arizona, where all six Republicans voted yes, more than half the program is gone.