91.   The welfare bill has been delayed by a dispute over the future of the national school lunch program, but the two chambers have agreed on the other provisions.

92.   The White House has railed against cuts in funds for the school lunch program and warned that a balanced budget amendment must inevitably lead to diminished Social Security benefits.

93.   Their efforts to gut the school lunch program drew public outrage.

94.   The U.S. Agriculture Department, which runs the school lunch program, requires that food served be grown in the U.S.

95.   They exposed themselves to withering Democratic counterattacks by trying to do things such as lifting federal nutrition requirements from the school lunch program.

96.   They like the current school lunch program, in part because the government buys surplus commodities, keeping prices higher than they would otherwise be.

97.   They were reluctant to spend money on outside help and did not hire people who knew how to run school lunch programs and organize bus schedules, Madigan said.

98.   They want to keep the school lunch program as an entitlement, under which federal subsidies would grow automatically with the number of eligible children.

99.   Three days later, the centers notified the FDA and the Agriculture Department of a possible link between the cases and strawberries in the school lunch program.

100.   Thursday, the House Committee on Economic and Educational Opportunities voted to scrap the school lunch program and let states decide how to use Federal money to feed schoolchildren.