Back in Washington, Senate Republicans were preparing a proposal to give the Obama administration more flexibility to administer the cuts to blunt their impact.

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And it's - at least the administration's response has been, administratively, it would be absolutely impossible to administer that and to monitor in each grocery store what people are buying with their food stamps and that they think a better approach is to just have this better education.

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