I view this as an important downpayment on the priorities mentioned above.
This report highlights the seriousness of the child nutrition bill that lies before us.
I will tell you, just from a USDA perspective, we are encouraged by the number of grants, loans, business activity in our rural development ...
Fortunately, the Congress had the wisdom to include in the Recovery and Reinvestment Act more resources for SNAP, more resources for food as...
The Obama administration takes this opportunity very seriously.
We need to recommit ourselves to having schools be commercial-free zones for kids.
The scale of these programs means that reforms can have a major impact on tens of millions of school children.
But it gives us, I think, an added advantage of being able to seek out the solutions to that issue.
Thank you for your leadership on this and always working together to try to move this child nutrition bill.
We do know about the extreme connection between obesity and health.
It seems to me that the essential underlying feature of having a healthy country is having healthy kids.
Senator Harkin has recommended for all school foods.
The President, the First Lady, and I are committed to combating hunger and providing healthier foods to our nation's children.
This isn't just about human services. It isn't just about the moral responsibility we have. It is actually good economics in tough times.
Chairman Harkin did a tremendous job, along with the staff, in really teeing up what we need to do on child nutrition.
We have got to be honest with ourselves and honest what that really means.
The upcoming effort to reauthorize the Child Nutrition Program is a major opportunity for us to advance a number of key priorities for our c...
If we fail to address this issue aggressively now, we will clearly, clearly pay for it in significant increases in health care expenditures ...
