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(It's CSP Week on BH. Learn more here about it. Get involved, and give what you can. - promoted by Dean Barker)
Carol's efforts in Congress are many and varied and this sometimes makes it hard for people to keep track. This week's CSP posts are a great way to start and I'd like to add my two cents. Yesterday, Congresswoman Carol Shea-Porter voted with a bi-partisan majority to send the Improving Nutrition for America's Children Act, a bill she also co-sponsored, to a vote on the House floor. HR 5504 represents the first real (i.e. non-inflationary) increase in federal support for school nutrition in almost 40 years, a move applauded by First Lady Michelle Obama.
According to the Washington Post, "(i)t also provides start-up grants for school breakfast programs and year-round meal service in some states," "establish(s) a pilot program that would help selected schools to increase the quantity of organic food provided by the school lunch program," and will "expand after-school meal programs, create incentives for socially disadvantaged farmers who want to supply food to schools and require that schools receiving 'green cafeteria' grants ban Styrofoam." Congresswoman Shea-Porter successfully attached an amendment that creates competitive grants for summer food service programs to help assure that low-income kids have access to federally-supported healthy meals during the summer break.
This bill, also part of Ms. Obama's efforts to fight childhood obesity, represents a serious effort on the part of Rep. Shea-Porter and her colleagues to stop the federal government from funding the sale of the kinds of unhealthy foods that have contributed to the epidemic of childhood obesity in the US.
We have a great member of Congress in Carol Shea-Porter. I look forward to her enjoying a long - and ever more influential career - both in the House generally and specifically on the House Education & Labor Committee in particular. We need more like her.
