Jon Fox said "On the school lunch program, what I think is exciting about the new Congress is that in the 104th Congress, in a bipartisan fashion, we have seen the school lunch and the WIC programs, how we have expanded the amount of money for those programs, and we said in a block grant, we are going to make sure it meets National Science Foundation standards for quality of the food. Instead of spending 15 percent on administrative costs, as the Federal Government has for many, many years, we told the States and the governors who want the programs, ``You can only spend 5 percent on the administrative costs. With the extra 10 percent we are giving you, you have got to feed more kids more meals.'' That is a better way of doing it. Less bureaucracy, more direct services. That is what I think is the kind of reform that is positive." @ PoliticalQuotes.com

On the recordMarch 13, 1996

On the school lunch program, what I think is exciting about the new Congress is that in the 104th Congress, in a bipartisan fashion, we have seen the school lunch and the WIC programs, how we have expanded the amount of money for those programs, and we said in a block grant, we are going to make sure it meets National Science Foundation standards for quality of the food. Instead of spending 15 percent on administrative costs, as the Federal Government has for many, many years, we told the States and the governors who want the programs, ``You can only spend 5 percent on the administrative costs. With the extra 10 percent we are giving you, you have got to feed more kids more meals.'' That is a better way of doing it. Less bureaucracy, more direct services. That is what I think is the kind of reform that is positive.

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Jon Fox

Republican · Pennsylvania

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Editor's note · Context

Discussing reforms to the school lunch and WIC programs in the 104th Congress.

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