Food and Nutrition

Background
Background on Food and Nutrition

Latest News
HNR: Without a Doubt, Farm Bill Becomes Law (7/2/08)
HNR: Farm Bill Becomes Law With a Glitch (5/23/08)
HNR: Vote on Passage of the Farm Bill Expected This Week (5/12/08)
HNR: Last Chance for Farm Bill (3/21/08)
HNR: Farm Bill Stalemate Continues (3/7/08)
HNR: Senate Passes Farm Bill – Still a Ways to Go (12/21/07)
HNR: Food Stamps and Emergency Food Gains Move Forward in Senate Farm Bill (10/29/07)

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Policy Analyses and Research

FRAC: Hunger Doesn't Take a Vacation: Summer Nutrition Status Report 2008 (7/30/08)
CBPP: Comparisons of Nutrition Provisions in House- and Senate-Passed Farm Bills (12/21/07)
Sodexho Foundation: The Economic Cost of Domestic Hunger: Estimated Annual Burden to the United States (6/5/07)NCLR: Sin Provecho: Latinos and Food Insecurity (12/20/06)
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CHN: WIC Comments (11/06/06)

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Government Resources

Status and text of H.R. 3010 the Fiscal 2006 Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations Act (signed into law 12/30/05)
Status and text of H.R. 4241 "Deficit Reduction Act" (The budget reconciliation bill approved by the House 11/18/05)
Bipartisan Letter to Senate Agriculture Committee Asking Not to Cut Food Stamps (9/7/05)
Letter from 68 House Members to Chairman Goodlatte in Support of Food Stamp Program (7/28/05)
Senate Appropriations Committee: S. Rept. 109-92 Agriculture Appropriations Bill for FY 2006 (6/27/05)

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