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Soldiers who left the battlefields. so you have no right to forget. this is not a debt where you say we have to pay more for a school lunch program. or add more money -- excuse me, this is the reason why we have a democracy and until people come together and get this, were going to have a hard time coming together. because guess what? at the same time we are having this conversation there are people in congress getting ready to put troops on the ground in syria, africa, troops on the ground in t...

Having a hard time, first, keeping the food on the plate and into the kids mouths. you have the plate waste that everybody is talking about. then you actually have the economics of this that are failing. schools want waivers if their school lunch program has reported a loss for six straight months. thats a bad situation that a school lunch program is in. then youve got 90% of schools that are now reporting increased costs. so its getting worse by the day. i want to quote rodney davis, republican...

Relief. this is a political issue and the first lady is in on it. is that complicated? >> i dont know that it is complicated. if you look at the government accountability office on this, 1.6 million students have completely dropped out of the school lunch program because it is this one size fits all policy. you have some kids who are going after lunch hungry because theres not enough food for high school football players and then people who maybe cant eat the kind of food theyre offering. on the...

2010, when the healthy hungry free kids act was passed. she worked hard to do that as did a number of us in the congress to move forward to finally get standards for our school lunch program. and those standards just didnt come out of the air. they were put together by the institute of medicine along with the department of agriculture so that we could ensure that our kids were getting healthy meals. whats behind it? it is the food industry, and in particular the preprocessed package industry tha...

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Democrats may not come in and say give the government the bill and they fund it. make sure the funding is there so when the vets go in with the private bill, the government pays what the bill is worth and dont try to undercut the doctor. >> you cant turn this into a funding conversation. thats where the left wants to take it. alburquerque, new mexico, cardiologists are seeing two vets a day. thats bureaucracy and red tape. >> they need to do something today. thats clear to all of us. does it see...

Midterm elections. sandra, do you think this is just typical first lady stuff or is there something else going on here? >> her likability factor is huge right now for democrats. were hearing they want her and not her husband. so its going to be interesting. school lunches, obamacare, health care, shes put herself out there and shes right now winding up to engage in more -- engage in more than the 2010 midterms so they see her as a major weapon approaching the midterm elections. theyre going to u...

Said you know what, we need these benefits for the poor folks in our state, were going to pony up the money to make sure they get instituted? >> yeah. first of all, chris, thanks for drawing attention to this because i think so much attention has been put on bridgegate. and i would suggest this is more important. there are people inconvenienced in traffic that were stuck on the bridge for four days. but this is affecting 160,000 households every single day. so id actually say this is more like f...

About these cuts. youve been going around. have you personally been surprised that governors have said you know what, we need these benefits for the poor folks in our state, were going to pony up the money to make sure they get instituted? >> yeah. first of all, chris, thanks for drawing attention to this because i think so much attention has been put on bridgegate. and i would suggest this is more important. there are people inconvenienced in traffic that were stuck on the bridge for four days....