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Sat May 02, 2009 at 21:00:00 PM PDT
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| Tom Harkin just introduced S.934, a bill that will update the rules on what's allowed to be served or sold in schools. Right now, almost everything is fair game to sell in schools. You just can't sell the worst junk in the cafeteria during lunch time. Outside of the cafeteria, anything goes. In the cafeteria when it's not time for lunch, anything goes. The new bill will update that. The text of the bill is not up on the website yet, but seriously - there's no way the current laws could be made worse unless there was a new rule for mandatory soda and candy consumption in it. There's little doubt that whatever the text of the bill contains will be a needed improvement.
Here are the current co-sponsors of the bill:
Sen. Amy Klobuchar [D-MN]
Sen. Lisa Murkowski [R-AK]
Sen. Michael Bennet [D-CO]
Sen. Kent Conrad [D-ND]
Sen. Patrick Leahy [D-VT]
Sen. Robert Casey [D-PA]
Sen. Sherrod Brown [D-OH]
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand [D-NY]
If you don't see your Senator's name on that list, give them a call and ask them to sign on. The companion bill in the House is H.R.1324: The Child Nutrition Promotion and School Lunch Protection Act of 2009 by Lynn Woolsey. She's got 128 co-sponsors but could certainly use some more! |
| Jill Richardson :: ACTION: Ask Your Senator to Co-Sponsor Harkin's School Nutrition Bill |
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