he asked for support on behalf of food bills has sent to congress and he said should virtually eliminate poverty as a source of malnutrition. 2,000 delegates to the conference streamed into a washington hotel. they included corporation executives, welfare mothers, labor leaders, doctors, young social activists and mexican americans and bureaucrats. some lobbied for ideas to end hunger. the conversation was opened by president nixon. he said now is the time to do something for the estimated 15 million americans too poor to buyan enough food. until this moment, in our history, as a nation, the central question has been whether we as a nation would accept the problem of mall nourishment as a national responsibility. that moment has passed. on may 6th, i asserted to the congress that the moment is at and hand to put an end to hunger for itself for all time. and speaking for this administration, i not only accept the responsibility, i claim the responsibility. i, richard nix
is about supplying baby formula to mothers. of all of the baby formula sold in the united states more than half purchased by mothers on wic assistance and because thisth ia federal seprogram, there are restrictions on the exact kinds of formula you can get. ifla you re lucky enough to fin formula on the shelves, but that is not a wic approved brand or size, you are out of luck. and so today, congress tried to fix that. the democratic controlled house ofat representatives has voted a bill appropriately named the access to baby formula act. which would knock down some of that red tape. to expand access to baby formula under the wic program. and it sounds like a no-brainer, right? in the middle of a nationwide formulaof shortage, let s make just a little easier for the poorest mothers to access baby formula. it s almost impossible to come upit with a reason to be agains it. and yet, nine republicans, nine of them,ic voted no on that bil. representatives like margely