The Senate Agriculture Committee will mark-up a bipartisan bill to reauthorize child nutrition programs next week. The committee scheduled a business meeting next Wednesday to mark-up the bill that has support from the White House, according to the Hagstrom Report. The mark-up was announced Wednesday by Committee Chair and Kansas Republican Pat Roberts and ranking Democrat Debbie Stabenow of Michigan. The bill will amend the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act and the Child Nutrition Act of 1996. The measures include school meals, the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children and a smaller feeding and commodity distribution program. It does not cover the food stamp program. Last fall, Roberts had to cancel a markup because he and Stabenow had not reached an agreement.
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