New Farm Bill Proposal Cuts Nutrition Programs
U.S. Newswire, February, 2008
To: CITY EDITORS
Contact: Shawnda Hines of Bread for the World, 1-301-960-4913
WASHINGTON, Feb. 13 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Rev. David Beckmann, president of Bread for the World, issued the following statement today in response to a new proposal sent to the Senate by Representatives Collin Peterson, chairman, and Bob Goodlatte, ranking member, of the House of Representative's Agriculture Committee:
"House Agriculture Committee Chairman Collin Peterson and Ranking Member Bob Goodlatte today sent the first proposal to the Senate in order to move the Farm Bill forward. Their outline proposes changes in the commodity title to pay for needs in other parts of the Farm Bill. Yet, significant cuts were made to the nutrition title which provides funding for the Food...
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