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Congress Should Strengthen Child Nutrition Programs without Cutting SNAP
House vote on child nutrition legislation pending -- make your voice heard!

In August, the Senate passed its Child Nutrition bill, Healthy Hunger Free Kids Act of 2010(S.3307). While this will make some needed improvements to these programs but only invests $4.5 billion in new funding, far below the investments called for by President Obama and in a bipartisan House bill. Even worse, at the last minute the Senate used resources from theSupplemental Nutrition Assistance Program or SNAP (formerly the Food Stamp Program) to help pay for its bill. RESULTS soundly rejects the practice of taking needed money from critical anti-poverty programs to pay for other anti-poverty programs. We should not be using the poor to fund the poor. 
The House has yet to take up their bill, the Improving Nutrition for America's Children Act of 2010 (H.R.5504). The House bill allocates more funding to increase access to key child nutrition programs. House leaders are working to make the improvements that are so important to hungry kids, but they are running out of time and face increasing pressure to simply take up the Senate bill. We have a small but critical window of opportunity to make sure the House strengthens the child nutrition bill before it goes to the President.
If they simply approve the Senate bill, they will be cutting off any opportunity to correct the Senate's mistake. They will also be short-changing hungry children not once, but twice - once with the lower funding level and twice by cutting SNAP funding to pay for it. Contact your representative today to urge the House to pass a stronger child nutrition bill!
TAKE ACTION: Call your representative today toll-free: (877) 425-4810 and deliver this message:
“Instead of taking up the Senate bill, the House should pass a better child nutrition bill. Please urge the House Leadership to support a bill that increases children’s access to programs – especially during weekends, summer, and breakfast – and is paid for without cutting SNAP (food stamps).

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