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Chris Ward: hearing about salt, I can only think of child nutrition. I can only think of our School Lunch Programs. I can only think…

On the recordMarch 14, 1995
hearing about salt, I can only think of child nutrition. I can only think of our School Lunch Programs. I can only think about what we have heard from the people who are supporting and who are committed to one thing and one thing only, and, that is, this Republican contract. They hate it when we stand up here, those of us who are fighting for our working families, and remind them that a cut is a cut if it does not meet the need. The need is what the goal is here, the need of our children to have a hot meal at school because that may be the only place they get it. If you raise by 4.5 percent the money that is being spent, that is still not an increase if the need has gone up by more. If you cap that increase at 4.5 percent and the need does in fact go up by more, you are taking food from the mouths of our children. That is not what the voters have sent us here to do.
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Chris Ward
Labour Party

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Addressing concerns about funding for school lunch programs and child nutrition.

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