Posts Tagged ‘congress’
One Of These Things Is Not Like The Others
Posted: November 28, 2011 by jerkmag in CRISP -- healthTags: Agriculture Department, Amber Brenza, asparagus, beans, Bell peppers, carrots, congress, cruciferous vegetables, dark green leafy vegetables, french fries, healthy diet, nutrition, peas, pizza, summer and winter squash, sweet potatoes, tomato paste, tomatoes
To the delight of elementary school children and college frat boys everywhere, pizza can officially be considered a valid part of an everyday diet.
Congress declared pizza – or, more specifically, the tomato paste on pizza – a vegetable this past Monday, after it finalized a version of a spending bill that would reverse the Agriculture Department’s proposal of healthier school lunches.
Potatoes (read: french fries) were also on the edge of extinction in the Agriculture Department’s proposition for school lunches that would ultimately limit sodium intake and push children to consume more whole grains and actual vegetables.
Thank goodness for the Republicans on the House Appropriations Committee, who saw error in the Agriculture Department’s plan of keeping children healthy.
GOP Looks for Waste in New Stimulus Bill
Posted: February 21, 2009 by JohnCassillo in UncategorizedTags: congress, john cassillo, Nancy Killefer, obama, republicans, stimulus package
Congressional Republicans face a tough road ahead of them for these next two years. Until the 2010 mid-term elections, the GOP is handily outnumbered by Democrats in Congress, and has been stripped of their greatest asset. You see, when a party is out of power as Republicans are now, and Democrats were from 2001-2006, it usually hopes for policy failure on the part of the opposition, and capitalizes on these missteps. In the case of today’s political landscape, Republicans do not have such a luxury.
As we dip farther into one of our nation’s darkest economic hours, all Republicans can do is hope for success, because failure is no longer an option. (more…)