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Product into the market that was contaminated. in your earlier comments you said there are only four major producers of infant formula in the united states. that, in and of itself, is a problem. so with contracting we should do away with it. because when abbott has 40 cent of the wic recipients, and thank god for richard nixon for making that summit we got a wic program. we need to address the underlying issue. so let me just talk about the fta, because in fact in september they look at the plant. there was suspicion. in october the whistleblower's report. they didn't do anything about it. in ...

Crisis. it is hitting those wic moms, those moms below the poverty line, especially hard. a huge part of the wic program is about supplying baby formula to mothers. of all the baby formula sold in the united states more than half is purchased by mothers on wic assistance. because this is a federal program there are restrictions on the kind of formula you can get. if you're lucky enough to find formula on the shelves, but that is not a wic approved brander size, you are out of luck. so today congress tried to fix that. the democratic-controlled house of representatives has voted on a bill appro...

Delauro from connecticut, and chair of the house appropriations committee. she introduced legislation to give emergency funding to the fda so that the resources to address the shortage. she also chaired hearing that address this issue earlier today. congresswoman dolores, and you for joining us this evening. earlier today the senate approved a bill by unanimous consent that would improve access to baby formula for low-income americans using the wic program. it seems non controversial. are you surprised nine of your own house colleagues, all republicans, balked at passing this bill? >> this is ...

Food and nutrition, more than 1600 of those proposals were enacted by the federal government within two years, excluding one with kind of a funny name. it's called wick. sounds like a candle work, but it is spelled w i see. one of the problems identified that conference was that young poor mothers were struggling to come up with the money to feed not just themselves but their babies, as well. wic we're supposed to fix that. in 1974 the first wic clinic open in pineville, kentucky. today the wic program provide services in all 50 states, using federal money to pay for voters for mothers with yo...

Bureaucratic and logistical failures. this nationwide shortage has turned into a full blown crisis. it is hitting those wic moms, those moms below the poverty line, especially hard. a huge part of the wic program is about supplying baby formula to mothers. of all the baby formula sold in the united states more than half is purchased by mothers on wic assistance. because this is a federal program there are restrictions on the kind of formula you can get. if you're lucky enough to find formula on the shelves, but that is not a wic approved brander size, you are out of luck. so today congress tri...