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Congress Approves FY2010 Agriculture Spending Bill

Child Nutrition and WIC Reauthorization
Congress is reviewing all the federal child nutrition programs, including School Breakfast and Lunch programs, Summer Food, Child and Adult Care Food and WIC programs.

FRAC believes a strong Child Nutrition Reauthorization bill must include the following priorities:

• Expand the Afterschool Meal Program to all
  50 states.
• Improve the area eligibility test so more communities can operate afterschool, summer, and child care food programs.
• Provide funds for a grant program to support the start-up and expansion of universal and in-classroom school breakfast programs.
• Invest in Summer Nutrition Programs by providing funding for start-up, outreach, and transportation grants.
• Allow child care centers and homes the option of serving a third meal.

May 21, 2009 - House Recognizes Importance of CACFP
The House, by a vote of 377 to 10, passed H. Res. 442, recognizing "the importance of the Child and Adult Care Food Program and its overall positive effect on the lives of low-income children and families, as well as its positive effect on improving the quality of a child's child care environment...."
Read the resolution text and debate in the Congressional Record.
Review the roll call vote.

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