Posted on 09/30/2010 2:23:57 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Michelle Obama's nutrition bill fails in the House
By ABBY PHILLIP | 9/30/10 4:31 PM EDT
A bloc of progressive House Democrats resisted heavy White House lobbying and a 11th-hour push to broker a compromise on a child nutrition bill, ending chances that the legislation – a pet project of first lady Michelle Obama – would pass before the November midterm elections.
At the root of the impasse: a proposed $2.2 billion cut in future funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, which provides food stamps for the poor. Despite personal appeals by the first lady, the Democrats balked at what they saw as a plan to pay for the nutrition bill by quietly cutting SNAP – an essential food safety net that lawmakers had already borrowed from to pay for emergency aid to states.
White House spokesman Reid Cherlin said the administration has committed to restoring any proposed cuts to SNAP and will do all it can to move the $8 billion bill forward.
“SNAP is not blocking the bill,” he said. “We’re working with the House leadership to schedule the bill as soon as it fits in to the House schedule.”
But Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Mass), who co-wrote a letter to the White House opposing the use of SNAP funds, told POLITICO that he and 106 others who signed it “have been saying everything we possibly could to make it clear that this would be a problem.”
Still, “there is a pledge [from the White House] to try to help us work this out,” he said.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
If the First Lady wants a bill, she should run for congress. There should be no such thing as an activist First Lady. Serve tea and host dignitaries and keep your nose out of official business.
Is there any problem the government can’t create?
*snort* Michelle Obama fails in the House. *snort*
She was never elected to do anything.
Look what Moose-Hell’s dietary preferences did to her!
No one wants their kids to look like that.
People do not want to live on Nuts and Roots.
And we thought her Spanish vacation was expensive. Imelda Marcos would be less of a drain on the treasury.
What’s next, First Failure Michelle?
Are you now going to work on getting everyone to use only 2 squares of TP per visit?
Maybe her rabbit food bill would have had a better chance if she, the Bamster, and their kids had not been photographed so often scarfing down burgers, fries, pizza, hot dogs, ice cream, etc.
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