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“Senate Committee Meetings” mentioning the U.S. Dept of Agriculture was published in the Daily Digest section on pages D1305 on Dec. 8, 2008.
The publication is reproduced in full below:
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
USDA FOOD ASSISTANCE AND CHILD NUTRITION PROGRAMS
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee concluded a hearing to examine United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) food assistance and child nutrition programs in the economic downturn, focusing on promoting health and fighting hunger, after receiving testimony from Eileen Kennedy, Tufts University Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Boston, Massachusetts; Mariana Chilton, Drexel University School of Public Health, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Mary Kay Fox, Mathematica Policy Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts; and Carolyn L. Duff, Richland County School District One, Columbia, South Carolina, on behalf of the National Association of School Nurses.
