NEWS RELEASE

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For Immediate Release
July 16, 2010

For more information:
John Turner
Senior Director of Marketing and Branding
Office: 512-684-2528
Mobile: 512-636-1497
jturner@austinfoodbank.org
jturner@austinfoodbank.org

Act Today to Support Child Nutrition Reauthorization
The Capital Area Food Bank asks for your help to urge members of the U.S. House Committee on Ways & Means to fully fund Child Nutrition Reauthorization. Congress must pass a fully-funded bill by the end of the year.

AUSTIN, TX —

The Capital Area Food Bank asks for your help to urge members of the U.S. House Committee on Ways & Means to fully fund Child Nutrition Reauthorization.  Now is the time to urge members of this committee and Congress to pass a fully-funded bill by September 30, before critical child nutrition programs expire.

BACKGROUND:

President Obama requested $1 billion per year in new investments in federal child nutrition programs over 10 years.  With nearly a quarter of America’s children at risk of hunger, and Texas leading the nation in child hunger, full funding is required to support these vital programs.

We must act now.  Members of the Ways & Means Committee will deliberate funding for the legislation.  Child Nutrition Reauthorization must be fully-funded to nourish low-income children.

If your Congressional Representative sits on the House Committee on Ways & Means, please contact him/her to urge full funding of Child Nutrition Reauthorization.

In Texas, Representative Lloyd Doggett (25th District) sits on Ways & Means.

Contact information: (202) 225-4865 or e-mail at https://forms.house.gov/doggett/webforms/issue_subscribe.htm.

Click here to view the full list of members: http://waysandmeans.house.gov/singlepages.aspx?newsid=10462.

Instructions:

• If you make a phone call, provide your name, city, and state to the staff member who answers.

• Explain that as a concerned citizen, you urge Representative Doggett to fully-fund Child Nutrition Reauthorization.  Congress must pass a fully-funded bill by September 30.

• Thank the staff person for his/her time.

If you have any questions, please contact Wendy Heiges, Senior Director of Advocacy & Public Policy at the Capital Area Food Bank at (512) 684-2535 or wheiges@austinfoodbank.org. 

Thank you for your support.