31.   He also helped expand the food stamp and school lunch programs.

32.   He also advanced major expansions of the Food Stamp and school lunch programs.

33.   He has made a similar case in opposing efforts by the Republican Congress to curtail the federal school lunch program or relax environmental regulations.

34.   Here are answers to basic questions about the fight over school lunch programs, which will be debated next week to the House floor.

35.   House and Senate negotiators said they had decided that illegal immigrants would be ineligible for the national school lunch program.

36.   House Republicans wanted to give each state a lump sum of money, or block grant, to run its own school lunch program.

37.   How else would they explain that they killed the federal school lunch program one day and imposed federal control over state courts the next day?

38.   Inclusion of foreign food products in the school lunch program is illegal.

39.   It also preserves food stamps and school lunch programs and the federal guarantee for health care for children, the elderly and people on welfare.

40.   Indeed, some studies have shown that the federally subsidized school lunch program provides one-third to one-half of the nutrients that low-income children eat every day.