Thune: Child Nutrition Bill a Step Forward for Students in South Dakota
“This committee needs to ensure that common sense is applied regarding nutritional standards and that assistance is provided to those who truly need it.”
WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.), a member of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, today expressed his support for the Improving Child Nutrition Integrity and Access Act of 2016, legislation to improve child nutrition programs, including school lunch. This legislation, which passed the committee by voice vote, would increase flexibility for South Dakota schools to continue to improve nutritional standards, while allowing them the time to make the adjustments needed to meet the standards that have been set for whole grains and sodium. It would also make changes to ensure that free and reduced meals make it into the hands of those who need them the most.
The legislation includes several Thune provisions that would better address the unique needs of Indian Country and its desire to include locally grown and traditionally prepared foods, which have a significant role to play in the education of Native American students. These provisions would bring needed flexibility and clarity for tribal schools.
John another subsidy, your fiscal remember[ whoops] farm programs almost forgot.
Hear hear, Senator. Addressing obesity through youth nutrition is a valid use of governmental regulation.
You know what Truman said about US Senators:
“I understand Senators. I understand what makes them tick. I understand what they do. When they first come to the Senate, they have 4 years in which to be statesmen. I spent that period myself. Then they have a year in which to be politicians. And one of my good friends from the great State of Washington told me that the last year a Senator had to be a demagogue if he expected to come back to the Senate. I never heard a statement that is truer than that. And 9 times in 10 they don’t mean a word they say about the people who are working in the Government. And I am not casting any reflections on the Senate, I am talking about myself, when I was a United States Senator, and I know what I am talking about, as I spent 10 of the best years of my life in the Senate. I enjoyed it. I had a good time.”
It must be the “demagogue,” which is coming-out of Senator Thune for him to now be such a champion of further regulation, although tweaked… But I still wonder what a President Truman would say about a 12 year term? Would 10 years as a “statesman” make the demagoguery all the more intolerable for him and should it be for us as well?
Winston this guy has done nothing to help the avergage Joe in South Dakota, when his campaign gets going or if their is one will they call it the Photo Op Express , and hand out basketballs.
Will the basketballs be autographed? One can only hope…..jk