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Congress Moves on Wisconsin FoodShare Idea Limiting Junk Food Purchases

MacIver News Service | September 20, 2013

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[Washington, DC] A bill that would try to prevent people from buying junk food with food stamps might be stalled in the Wisconsin Senate, but it's inspired a Congressman from Tennessee to try and make it a federal law.

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Rep. Phil Roe (R-Tennessee) introduced a House Resolution on September 10th inspired by Wisconsin Representative Dean Kaufert (R-Neenah), who authored a bill that would explore the possibility of limiting what kinds of foods people can buy under the Food Share program.

"Already, states like Wisconsin and South Carolina have shown interest in improving the healthfulness of choices in their SNAP programs," he said. "By giving SNAP recipients more nutritious choices, we can take a meaningful step towards ending hunger in America."

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