John Hoeven actually said...

"I have introduced legislation with Senator King--this was bipartisan legislation, Senator King from Maine--that would both keep us at the lower sodium level, but not go to the next target level."

"But, you--so, you do not feel there needs to be any flexibility, even though you have schools that have applied for exemptions?"

"I have advanced the 50 percent whole grain enriched."

"So, last year, I included a provision that actually kept the whole grains at 50 percent rather than having 100 percent of the grain products having to be whole grain enriched."