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Republicans question healthier eating proposals
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| Last Edited | The Sunset Provision May 31, 2011 05:17pm |
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| News Date | Tuesday, May 31, 2011 11:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | House Republicans are pushing back against Obama administration efforts to promote healthier lunches, saying the Agriculture Department should rewrite rules it issued in January that would make school meals healthier. Republicans say the rules are too costly.
The legislation is expected to be approved by the House Appropriations Committee Tuesday.
The bill also questions a government proposal to curb marketing of unhealthy foods to children and urges the Food and Drug Administration to limit rules requiring calorie counts be posted on menus.
The overall spending bill would cut billions from USDA and FDA budgets, including for domestic feeding programs and international food aid.
Chris Crawford, a spokesman for Agriculture Appropriations Subcommittee Chairman Jack Kingston, a Georgia Republican, said that Republicans are concerned with the cost of many of the Obama administration proposals and that the proposals may be overregulation. |
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