State reaches out to D.C. on privatization / Lugar, Bayh could help fight bill that would stop $1B FSSA contract
Source: By Tim Evans, Indianapolis Star (IN), August 7, 2007
State officials are turning to Indiana's two U.S. senators to help eliminate a potential federal roadblock to a $1 billion welfare privatization project, Family and Social Services Administration Secretary Mitch Roob said Monday.
The impediment -- a restriction on how food stamp applications are handled -- is included in a farm bill passed last month by the House.
...... Andy Fisher, spokesman for Republican Sen. Richard Lugar, said the House version of the bill already faces many other challenges in the Senate and is unlikely to pass as written. President Bush has indicated he would veto the House version.