The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities has another important fact sheet up, this time on the Food Stamp program. Congress is considering leaving the program, which is up for reauthorization in the Farm Bill, unchanged. Work on the Farm Bill in the Senate has ground to a halt, and some folks in Congress are suggesting that they revisit the program the next time it comes up for reauthorization- 5 years from now. But as the paper makes clear, the increasing price of food, and eroding value of food stamp benefits, will make a straight reauthorization equivalent to a budget cut. In addition, a straight reauthorization would fail to address the emergency food crisis facing food banks and their clients, since the House-passed changes to The Emergency Food Assistance Program would be taken out of the bill, too. This is infuriating. Like the SCHIP funding increase, whether you support this bill or not is more or less a test of whether you're a human being. Well, maybe that's going a little too far, but they could have picked some other bills to make their precious political statements, but they didn't, because they think they can get away with picking on low and moderate-income people. Hold them accountable!