One of the great opportunities that we have is the leadership of the First Lady on this particular issue.

You fund your priorities. I believe this ought to be a priority.

We have still youngsters today that don't participate in the School Lunch and School Breakfast Program that need the School Lunch and School Breakfast Program.

One of the first items that President Obama discussed with me when I was first selected for this job was that one of his top priorities for USDA was to provide children with healthier, more nutritious meals.

These grim statistics add a note of seriousness to these hearings that we hold today.

If we fail to address this issue aggressively now, we will clearly, clearly pay for it in significant increases in health care expenditures in the future.

The upcoming effort to reauthorize the Child Nutrition Program is a major opportunity for us to advance a number of key priorities for our children.

This report highlights the seriousness of the child nutrition bill that lies before us.

Thank you for your leadership on this and always working together to try to move this child nutrition bill.

Why do we have vending machines in schools?

The lack of paid sick days is a crisis for public health that will make the H1N1 outbreak worse.

Almost half of all private sector workers--including 79 percent of low-wage workers--have no paid sick days.

Lack of paid sick days is also a crisis for America's working families.

Recently President Obama declared the H1N1 outbreak to be a national emergency.

Skyrocket is the term that President Obama has used about price increases.

It is the responsibility of Congress to weigh the costs and benefits of every policy decision it makes, and the bigger the issue, the more important it becomes.

The Environment and Public Works Committee is the place for a detailed examination of the purported environmental benefits of any climate change proposal, and that is an important part of the equation.

it will reduce economic growth, and it will reduce jobs.