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National Catholic Social Justice Lobby
Fiscal 2007 Agriculture Appropriations/Passage.
This $93.6 billion bill would fund the Department of Agriculture and Food and Drug Administration—including $37.9 billion for the food stamp program, $13.3 billion for
the child nutrition program, and $5.2 billion for the Women,Infants and Children (WIC) program.Children's Defense Fund Action Council
Increased Funding for Nutrition Programs, H.R. 5384.
The House passed a bill to increase funding for programs that provide nutritious food, food vouchers and other nutrition services to low-income pregnant, postpartum women and young children at risk of hunger, including $5.2 billion for the Women, Infants and Children (WIC) program, $118 million for the Commodity Supplemental Food Program (CSFP), and $13.3 billion for other child nutrition programs. Funding for all these programs had been eliminated in the President’s 2007 Budget proposal.
The House passed this bill funding critical programs that help ensure vulnerable children receive enough food at home and school. The legislation protected and expanded WIC, which provides supplemental food for low-income pregnant and breastfeeding women, other new mothers up to one-year postpartum and very young children when food stamps do not provide enough to meet special dietary needs.
The John Birch Society
Agriculture Appropriations.
This bill (H.R. 5384) would provide $93.6 billion in fiscal 2007 for the Department of Agriculture, the Food and Drug Administration, and related agencies. The funding includes $37.9 billion for the food-stamp program, $13.3 billion for the child-nutrition program, and $19.7 billion for the Commodity Credit Corporation, a federally funded program that aids farmers. This group believes federal aid to farmers and federal food aid to individuals are not authorized by the Constitution. The House passed H.R. 5384.