Tom Harkin actually said...

"If we get our kids started early in eating well and getting the right nutritious foods, they are just going to have healthier lives later on."

"I think I will just go back to schools are a unique environment and a unique opportunity to offer more balanced choices to students."

"I just find it odd that because a school board decides to let kids go off the campus, that somehow we have to permit junk food to be allowed on the campus."

"As Congress and the administration move forward with health reform this year, the ADA believes that establishing nutrition standards is a part of health reform and is directly connected to prevention."