Child nutrition bill awaits action as program expires Sept. 30
Sept. 28, 2010
"At a Sept. 22 Bipartisan Policy Center conference on nutrition, McGovern, D-Mass., said he is disappointed the Obama administration did not insist on its original goal of a $10 billion increase in child nutrition spending over 10 years and did not search for a different offset. 'SNAP (the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and formal name for food stamps) is being used as an ATM,' McGovern said, referring to congressional passage earlier this summer of a teachers’ pay and jobs bill that used a $12 billion reduction in food stamp benefits beginning in April 2014 as an offset. The child nutrition bill would reduce benefits on Nov. 1, 2013."
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