Food and Nutrition - Human Needs Report Archives
2008
Vote on Passage of the Farm Bill Expected This Week (5/12/08) Last Chance for Farm Bill (3/21/08) Farm Bill Stalemate Continues (3/7/08)
2007
Senate Passes Farm Bill – Still a Ways to Go (12/21/07) Food Stamps and Emergency Food Gains Move Forward in Senate Farm Bill (10/29/07) Farm Bill Movement in the Senate (9/17/07) House Enacts Long-Overdue Food Stamp Improvements (8/3/07) Farm Bill: House Committee Sends Bill With Nutrition Improvements to House Floor (7/23/07) House Takes First Step to Reauthorize Food Stamp and Other Nutrition Programs (6/15/07) Nutrition Bill Introduced in the House (5/4/07)
2006
USDA Proposes Improvements in WIC Food Package (8/7/06) House Agriculture Appropriations Bill Approved in Full Committee (5/19/06) House Subcommittee Rejects President’s Plan to Terminate Food Packages for Poor Seniors, Children and Moms (5/05/06)
2005
House and Senate to Attempt Passing a Final Bill Cutting Aid to Poor (12/9/05) Labor-HHS-Education Bill Must Clear One Last Hurdle (12/9/05) House Leadership Can't Dig Up Votes to Slash Medicaid, Child Support, Food Stamps, SSI, and Foster Care (11/11/05) House Committees Slash Medicaid, Child Support, SSI, and Foster Care; Reduce Planned Increases for Child Care (10/28/05) Final Conference Agreement on WIC Spending Approved in the House (10/28/05) House Presses for Even Larger Cuts to Low-Income Services (10/14/05) Low-Income Programs Threatened with Across-the-Board Cuts (10/14/05) Conservatives Continue to Press for Cuts to Low-Income Services and New Tax Breaks for the Wealthy (9/30/05) Hurricane Victims Needing Help Encounter Red Tape, Courtesy of Congress, White House (9/30/05) Congress Approves Stop-Gap Measure to Keep Government Running (9/30/05) Washington Focuses on Aiding Gulf Coast Families (9/16/05) Reconciliation Delayed: Congress Puts Off Cuts to Medicaid and Food Stamps in Wake of Katrina (9/16/05) Senate Committee Agrees to Labor-HHS-Education Spending Bill (7/22/05) Bill Funding Nutrition Programs Advances in the Senate (7/1/05) House Approve Agriculture Spending Bill (6/17/05) Reconciliation Instructions Put Human Needs Programs at Risk (5/20/05) Senate Subcommittee Looks at Early Childhood Programs (4/29/05) Congress Approves a Final Budget Resolution (4/29/05) Budget Conference Committee to Contemplate Deep Cuts to Human Needs Programs (4/15/05) FY 2006 Budget Resolutions Clear House, Senate Floor (4/1/05) House and Senate Budget Committees Pass Budget Resolutions for FY 2006 (3/11/05) Deep Cuts in President's Budget; Committees Ready to Act (2/25/05)
2004
Congress Passes Massive Spending Bill (11/24/04) Congress Starts Work on Appropriations (7/2/04) School Lunch and Other Child Nutrition Programs Reauthorized (7/2/04) Senate Approves Child Nutrition Bill (5/21/04) House Approves Child Nutrition Reauthorization (3/26/04) Child Nutrition Reauthorization Moves through House Committee (3/12/04) CHN Releases Analysis of President's Budget (3/4/04)
2003
Congress Temporarily Extends Child Nutrition Programs (11/7/03) Child Nutrition Reauthorization Delayed in Senate (10/24/03) Appropriations Update (9/12/03) House Subcommittee Passes Agriculture Appropriations Bill (6/23/03)
2002
Many Programs Benefiting Poor Face Reauthorization in 2003 (11/22/02) Senate Adds $6 Billion in Drought Assistance to Interior Bill (9/13/02) Senate Committee Approves FY 2003 Agriculture Appropriations (8/2/02) House Committee Approves FY 2003 Agriculture Appropriations (7/19/02) President Bush Signs Farm Bill (5/24/02) Senate, House Pass Farm Bill Conference Report (5/10/02) Conferees Reach Tentative Farm Bill Deal (4/26/02) Farm Bill Conference Continues at Slow Pace (4/15/02) Farm Bill Conferees Agree On Nutrition Title Funding (3/29/02) Farm Bill Conferees Face Funding Setback (3/15/02) Senate to Continue Work on Farm Bill (2/1/02)
2001
Farm Bill Stalled On Senate Floor, Food Stamp Reauthorization To Wait Until Next Year (12/20/01) Farm Bill Introduced On Senate Floor, Contains Food Stamp Reauthorization (12/7/01) House And Senate Conferees Pass 2002 Agriculture Appropriations Bill (11/9/01) Senate Agriculture Committee Marks Up Farm Bill (11/9/01) Senator Lugar Introduces Farm Bill with Strong Nutrition Title (10/26/01) Farm Bill Passes Full House, Includes Food Stamp Reauthorization (10/12/01)
