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On the recordMarch 7, 1995
William Billups, the Principal at the all black Jefferson Elementary School in Jefferson County, MS, rural, poor, and 85 percent black, says that school lunch programs are not just a luxury. Principal Billups is a Republican, and he says he likes a lot of the changes that are taking place in Washington these days, but ending the Federal School Lunch Program and block granting the money to the States is not his idea of making things better. Billups calls it a crapshoot. Adding that you just do not know what they will do with the money. Having watched Mississippi State politics like I have watched politics in my State of Pennsylvania, Billups knows that 'They'll take a little here and take a little there. It'll be political.' And he adds, we shouldn't be political about food. Maybe we should send our Republican friends back to Jefferson Elementary School in Jefferson County, MS, to learn that lesson.
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Ron Klink
Democratic · Pennsylvania
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Discussing the importance of the Federal School Lunch Program and its potential impact on schools.

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