Carolyn McCarthy: “Childhood obesity, diabetes and heart disease are all on the rise in the US.”

I cannot emphasize enough the importance of the federal government listening to what is working locally.

I came to Congress as a result of violence, and I have worked for years to try to reduce violence in our schools and in our country.

I believe that our nation is in the midst of a nutritional crisis.

One of the things that we are seeing with the charter schools, that they have the ability of not taking children with disabilities or special needs, which obviously is a burden onto our public schools because they bring down the test…