Rosa DeLauro

Just because you eat one doughnut instead of two, that does not make it a smart choice.

We must continue to give crucial nutrition assistance programs like SNAP and WIC our strongest Federal support.

I think we have again, I'm going back to moral responsibilities.

I think that's in the IOM standards is 100 percent.

We need objective folks reviewing these lists, and then making, so that we can make appropriate recommendations.

The public has every reason to believe that there is gross ineptness here, on this issue, unlike CSP, the public health is at risk.

There is no one in charge. No one has authority. No one is responsible. There is no accountability. It is diffuse.

Not that affordable.

It's not affordable.

What changes from the Philadelphia model would you recommend and why? And what are the barriers in implementing community eligibility in other areas that have a high percentage of children living around the poverty line?

The Secretary spoke last week about, and I talked to my colleague, Allyson Schwartz, where this healthy food initiative is working to get nutritious foods into what are the food deserts.

It's a moral responsibility, in my view, what we're talking about here.

We are confronted with what at first appears to be a two-headed problem. On one hand we face a problem of access.

This is not mandated for us to do, but the issue is so critical and so important that we really wanted to get you here to address this.

I would also like to indicate I asked you and we need to talk about this not here but in another venue, to talk about what authorities you need.

Again, we continue to allow contractors who are in gross violation, not once, not twice, many times over, to continue to participate and sell a product to the school lunch program.

We continue to have these bad actors selling ground beef to the national school lunch program.

I have grave concerns, really grave concerns about how an agency can adequately determine a supplier's eligibility for a program if they do not know if all the non-conformances are in the tracking system and they are not looking at the…

I am exasperated. I am tired of this.

That sounds pretty basic to me, that if you can't find the places that are, you know, where the risk is, that once again flies in the face of risk-based inspection procedures.

I understand that. But I think you said that they sent the material out to places where they were not part--they didn't receive any of the product, or in fact, they may have been out of business, as I read your report--and there was no way…

There were some deliberate actions, did you say?

Thank you very much. And I appreciate the summary.

I am anxious to take a hard look at what happened in Pennsylvania because Pennsylvania has been working in this effort to see what it costs.

I would like to be able to show people that there is a real future in rural America.