The proposed food security bill risks creating a national majority permanently on the dole.
It may seem harsh to ask them to pay rent, utilities, or part of the food bill.
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Washington (CNN) -- The Senate passed a food safety bill to give more power to the Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday, more than a year after the House of Representatives passed a similar measure.
It consists of people who need the extra tax money to pay for the heating bill, put food on the table, and buy gas to commute to the nursing home to see their parents.
For instance, in your article on the World Food Summit you allege that the farm bill would cause massive overproduction to the detriment of poor countries.
It says it will reintroduce the food-safety bill in Parliament this spring, with only minor changes.
But with the White House, the food industry and the FDA behind it, the bill could be law before the end of the year.
Congress is on the verge of increasing funding for food stamps as part of the economic stimulus bill, because of the steep rise in the number of Americans applying for the aid.
Conveniently for the food industry, the figures came out just as a bill was presented to Parliament seeking to limit the promotion of some foods to children.
The UN has criticised the bill because of the way it uses food aid, which is traditionally exempt from political manoeuvring.
The first approach, known as the Kennedy-Waxman bill, will give the beleaguered Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authority to regulate tobacco.
Currently the U.S. farm bill dictates that the government must purchase food from American farmers and ship it overseas to those who are hungry.
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Leading the charge against the bill is Wendell Young IV, president of the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 1776 and chairman of UFCW of the PA Wine and Spirits Council.
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Finally the committee looked at the scrutiny process for the Food Hygiene Rating (Wales) Bill.
During the second half of the committee session, AMs turned their attention to scrutiny of the Food Hygiene Rating (Wales) Bill.
Most of what is left over was claimed by the big highway bill (HR2400) that is on President Clinton's desk or by an agriculture research and food stamp bill (S1150) that the House cleared June 4.
In rural areas, the farm bill will dictate the next five years of federal policy for food growers and producers.
The bill, designed to bolster the safety of the nation's food supply, passed 73-25.
Schering-Plough maintains that Claritins patent should be extended because the company was unfairly affected by an unexpectedly long Food and Drug Administration review, according to Bill ODonnell, a spokesman for the company.
Earlier this autumn, the Senate voted 70-28 to tack an amendment on to the annual agricultural appropriations bill that would have ended all prohibitions on the sale of food and medicine and required congressional approval for any such sanctions in the future.
Here is the ultimate justification for the Bloomberg soft-drink ban, not to mention his smoking ban, his transfat ban, and his unsuccessful efforts to enact a soda tax and prohibit buying high-calorie drinks with food stamps: The taxpayer is picking up the bill.
The columnist and former food critic Frank Bruni remembers going out to dinner with her after the accident, with Bill Keller and his wife, Emma.
The ambitious, but long-delayed food security bill will now be debated by lawmakers in parliament before a vote.
That pays the electricity bill and buys water and food for her 12 family members, but it isn't enough to get them a decent home away from the smelly, sooty refuse.
The bill establishes sensible nutrition standards for the food sold in school that will help push the junk food out of the building and make it easier for kids to have access to a nutritious meal or snack in school.
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In November 1999, United States President Bill Clinton signed a bill which will allow the US to give food assistance to the rebels in the south.
The final bill includes provisions that can get junk food out of schools, nourish more kids who need healthful meals and motivate them and their parents to adopt healthful eating and exercise habits.
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The bill is designed to be less onerous for the smallest food producers, but parts of the industry are decidedly cranky.
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