61. Rep. Marge Roukema, R-N.J., voted to replace the school lunch program with a block grant. 62. Republicans in the House have already won its approval for replacing the school lunch program with block grants. 63. Republicans wanted to destroy the food stamp and school lunch programs that provide basic nutrition to millions of working families and poor children. 64. Remember that when you watch Congress slash funding for the school lunch program -- to teach poor children some sense of responsibility. 65. School lunch programs, nursing homes and other places that reheat meat might benefit if the fruit theory works. 66. Senate Republicans insisted that the lunch program remain an entitlement for schoolchildren. 67. States already administer the school lunch program. 68. States were evaluated based on participation by schools and low-income students in school lunch programs. 69. Still unresolved between the House and Senate versions of the welfare bill is the treatment of the school lunch program. 70. Tainted berries from Mexico were shipped to schools as part of a federal lunch program and might have made it onto the commercial market. |