End Hunger Now

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Mr. Speaker, as kids, we were taught that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. Still, far too many students--especially those living in poverty--arrive at school hungry each day. Congress can and must do more to bolster our school breakfast programs so that all students across the country have access to a nutritious
breakfast to start the day.

I have joined my Republican colleague on the House Agriculture Committee, Congressman Rodney Davis, on a bill to expand commodity support to the School Breakfast Program. The bipartisan Healthy Breakfasts Help Kids Learn Act will provide schools with additional nutritious food to ensure no student starts his or her day hungry. Importantly, this legislation will allow schools to expand their breakfast programs, improve their menus, and serve students nutritious, American-grown foods.

Mr. Speaker, school meals are just as essential as a textbook when it comes to helping our kids learn and succeed. I look forward to working with my colleagues to advance this bipartisan legislation that, combined with other antihunger safety net programs, will work to end hunger now.

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