We need to recommit ourselves to having schools be commercial-free zones for kids.
We do know about the extreme connection between obesity and health.
It seems to me that the essential underlying feature of having a healthy country is having healthy kids.
Chairman Harkin did a tremendous job, along with the staff, in really teeing up what we need to do on child nutrition.
But it gives us, I think, an added advantage of being able to seek out the solutions to that issue.
Thank you for your leadership on this and always working together to try to move this child nutrition bill.
The lack of paid sick days is a crisis for public health that will make the H1N1 outbreak worse.
Recently President Obama declared the H1N1 outbreak to be a national emergency.
Lack of paid sick days is also a crisis for America's working families.
Almost half of all private sector workers--including 79 percent of low-wage workers--have no paid sick days.
They are full and welcome members of our American family, and they deserve the same civil rights protections as all othe...