COMMENTARY | Americans should be breathing a sigh of relief after the Republican-led House Appropriations Committee submitted its final "Mini-bus" Conference Report regarding funding for several agencies in 2012 including the Department of Agriculture. With representatives from both sides of the aisle signing off, these appropriations cut $7 billion that had been included in the 2011 budget.
One of the requests on the chopping block was the Department of Agriculture's request to fund better nutritional guidelines in the school lunch program. Keeping French fries and pizzas in the school lunch program is welcome news to conservatives who believe "the government shouldn't be telling children what to eat."
Chairman Hal Rogers, R-Ky., said of the report, "Within this bill, we also include many critically important policy items that will ? halt unnecessary government interference into the daily lives of Americans." I can't think of a better place to start limiting government interference than children's nutrition and the spending of taxpayer dollars on school lunches.
Rogers is right. Ultimately, it is a parent's responsibility to decide what their children should eat. Plus, it just makes good economic sense to subsidize the frozen pizza industry and potato growers with federal dollars designated to feed children who live in poverty.
It is such a relief to hear that our legislators are serious about less government interference. Some of the Appropriations Committee members are so serious about backing out of private lives that they signed on as co-sponsors of H.R. 212 in January, just weeks after they took office. Not only is Chairman Rogers a co-sponsor of the Sanctity of Human Life Act, a bill to define life as beginning at fertilization as a means to overturn Roe vs. Wade, he is joined by Republican committee members Jack Kingston of Georgia and Robert Aderholt of California.
With these actions designed to reduce the federal bureaucracy and keep those nosy politicians out of our private lives, we should all be resting easier. I'm sure we can guess how the repeal of the Defense of Marriage Act will work out.
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