Sentences with phrase «cnr bill»

Y4HS definitely has something to say about the House CNR bill.

But Republican House members, many of whom have been hostile to school food reform notably championed by Michelle Obama, had yet to propose their own CNR bill.

As I outlined in a piece for Civil Eats, the House CNR bill would have seriously undermined key school food provisions, including taking a decidedly anti-science approach to school nutrition standards, significantly limiting the Community Eligibility Provision (which provides free meals to students in low - income areas without paperwork or stigma) and opening the junk food floodgates on school campuses by gutting the Smart Snacks rules for competitive food.

But the CNR bill drafted by the House Education & the Workforce Committee in April was another story.

But now the House Education and the Workforce Committee has passed a CNR bill that's so wrongheaded, even the SNA is taken aback and urging its members to speak out against it.

Not exact matches

Because regardless of what happens with SNA's desired one - year waiver language in the pending 2015 appropriations bill, the 2015 Child Nutrition Reauthorization (CNR) is looming large and the SNA clearly views the CNR as its best chance to permanently roll back key HHFKA nutrition standards relating to sodium, whole grains, fruits and vegetables and a la carte offerings.

The Senate Agriculture Committee and House Education and Workforce Committee are hoping to attach the Child Nutrition Reauthorization (CNR) to the pending omnibus spending bill, negotiations over which are likely to be extended (via a pending continuing resolution) at least until December 16th, if not later.

Indeed, today's Politico Morning Agriculture newsletter reports that negotiations over the CNR fell apart precisely because «House Republicans felt entitled to a much more conservative bill after sweeping GOP victories in the election.»

Stabenow also predicted a deadlock that could further delay passage of the already - long - overdue 2015 CNR, telling Politico: «If folks do try to go backwards, there just won't be a bill, I can assure you.»

As reported here back in May, the School Nutrition Association (SNA) has parted ways with its former House Republican allies over the latter's controversial proposal, contained in the House Education & the Workforce Committee's Child Nutrition Reauthorization (CNR) bill, to block grant school food in three states.

In its proposed 2015 Child Nutrition Reauthorization (CNR) bill, the Senate Agriculture Committee managed to hammer out a bipartisan compromise that seemed to reasonably satisfy both health advocates and the School Nutrition Association (SNA)-- no easy feat, given how heated the controversy had become.

In two recent Civil Eats articles I've discussed serious concerns about the draft Child Nutrition Reauthorization (CNR) bill authored by the House Education and the Workforce Committee.

House Republicans made clear they wanted no part of the bipartisan school food compromise brokered in the Senate Agriculture Committee, instead offering up their own Child Nutrition Reauthorization (CNR) bill, one that would gut many key provisions of the Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act (HHFKA).

The House Education and the Workforce Committee's draft Child Nutrition Reauthorization (CNR) bill has yet to make it out of committee, but its proposals are so controversial that the committee is already feeling the need to respond to critics.

In the last Congressional session, industry lobbying succeeded in getting language into the House Education and the Workforce Committee's draft Child Nutrition Reauthorization (CNR) bill that would have allowed all FFVP schools to serve «all forms» of produce, expressly stating that the program is «no longer limited to only fresh fruits and vegetables.»