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“I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of my good friend Mrs. McMorris Rodgers' bill, the Common Sense Nutrition Disclosure Act. This legislation would make commonsense reforms to menu labeling and help ease the burden on businesses, while providing consumers with the information that they need. The regulations, finalized by the Obama administration in 2014, presented incredible challenges to businesses and would cause some insurmountable challenges for them to be in compliance with the law. This bill would allow for a more targeted approach and provide relief, while ensuring people have the nutritional information they need to make educated decisions about their health. Let's take a second to look at how exactly this bill benefits people across the country. This directs restaurants and food establishments to disclose visible information on calorie counts, the number of calories per serving, and accounts for online ordering with remote-access labeling directions. Self-service establishments will need to place signage with nutritional information for each food item. Finally, it ensures that the nutritional disclosure of food contents would need to comply with current standards, ensuring that restaurants will adhere to a guideline that they know they can trust. While this is good for consumers, it also makes important reforms for the establishments. It sets out protections to prevent frivolous lawsuits.…”