Write Senator Obama and Your Representative
in the U.S. House
On April 6, 2006, the Child Nutrition Promotion and School
Lunch Protection Act was introduced into the Senate and House.
This legislation does two things:
- Asks the USDA to revise the definition of Foods of Minimum
Nutritional Value (FMNV).
- Gives the USDA authority to write guidelines for all
foods available during school hours on the school campus.
Senator Richard Durbin was an original co-sponsor.
Write to Senator Obama and your Representative in the House
and ask them to become osponsors of this important legislation.
To write a letter, go to the Stir
It Up Campaign website.
Right now, the USDA provides guidelines for foods served
as part of reimbursable meals. But no guidelines exist in
the vast majority of our nation's schools for snack and beverage
vending, a la carte items in lunch lines, school stores, etc.
The USDA is the government agency that could write these guidelines
but the Congress needs to grant them authority to do so. That
is the purpose of this legislation.
For more information, you can read:
To determine your Representative in the House:
1. Get your 9-digit zip code at the US
Postal Service website.
2. Enter the 9-digit zip code at top of US
House of Representatives website.
The 9-digit number is important because some zip codes areas
are split between more than one US representative.
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