"Let's Move" and Support the Healthy Food Choices Act (H.R. 3073): Block Food Stamp Users From Buying Junk Food

The First Lady's "Let's Move" initiative works to educate the public on childhood obesity and to encourage Americans to "raise a healthier generation of Kids" through activity, exercise  and good eating habits.

A quick glance of the mission statement shows "Let's Move" understands the importance of eating good, healthy food and the negative effect sugar-laden junk food is doing to the youth of America.  

Michelle Obama should be thrilled that the Healthy Food Choices Act (H.R.3073) being introduced by Rep. Phil Roe (R-TN) will help accomplish exactly what "Let's Move" promotes as part of changing bad food habits, especially in low income families which are most likely to be recipients of Food Stamps (SNAP).

Here's a great chance for First Lady Michelle Obama to use her "Let's Move" campaign to help pass the Healthy Food Choices Act (H.R. 3073) being sponsored by Rep. Phil Roe (R-TN).....

From The Hill --

Rep. Phil Roe (R-Tenn.) on Tuesday proposed legislation that would require people using federal food stamps to buy only healthy food.

The Healthy Food Choices Act, H.R. 3073, reflects a long-standing criticism that the government's Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) allows people to buy billions of dollars worth of junk food. 

A 2012 study found that food stamps enable about $2 billion worth of junk food purchases each year, and that more than half of all SNAP benefits are used to buy sugary drinks.

Efforts to curb these purchases have been opposed by anti-hunger groups. But Roe said some states are already exploring ways to curb junk food purchases through the SNAP program, and argued that the federal government needs to take steps as well.

"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."

Under Roe's bill, food purchased under SNAP would have to meet the same guidelines that food purchased under the Women, Infants and Children (WIC) program already have to meet. The WIC guidelines are strict, and are made up of several different standards for products like breakfast cereal, milk, vegetables, peanut butter and other foods. (Continue Reading....)

 I wonder if the First Lady will contact Rep. Roe and say, "'Let's Move' the Healthy Food Choices Act into law and put the health of our low-income and less fortunate children first!"

Or will she just "let them eat cake?"

How to remember September 11, 2001 : Put America First

Twelve years ago today, America was attacked by jihadists. Michelle Malkin puts those twelve years into sad -- and angry -- perspective in "911: America's Unfinished Business": 

Before we head to Syria to avenge the mass murder of their kids, how about we finish avenging ours?

When I say “finish,” of course I really mean “start.” A dozen years after the 9/11 attacks, the trials against the jihadist plotters who incinerated pregnant women, firefighters, grandparents, newlyweds, toddlers and schoolkids on their first-ever plane rides have yet to begin.

Justice not only has been delayed and denied. Justice has been demoted, disowned and deserted. Justice for the 9/11 victims and families isn’t blindfolded. She’s gagged and hogtied. 

The terror-coddling Obama White House squandered precious years trying to shut down Gitmo to appease the peaceniks, transnationalists and Muslim grievance-mongers. President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder arrogantly attempted to shove civilian trials of terrorists — which would have been held a stone’s throw from Ground Zero — down New Yorkers’ throats. Ever since, Team Obama has dragged its feet on military tribunals for the al-Qaida crew. 

If we’re lucky — that’s a big if — the death penalty war crimes trials for KSM and his co-conspirators may begin in the fall of 2014. Maybe. Thanks to cunning delays, made-for-media theatrics and stomach-turning whining by the Gitmo detainees, the journey to hold the 9/11 plotters accountable has become a vulgar joke.

. . . 

Debra Burlingame, founder of 9/11 Families for a Safe and Strong America and sister of American Airlines Flight 77 pilot Charles Frank “Chic” Burlingame III (the flight the jihadists crashed into the Pentagon) sounded the alarm and warned the Obama/Holder brigade: “We will fight you all the way.”

That’s the unapologetic vigilance America was supposed to have adopted after the towers fell, the planes crashed and the ashes choked the air. Instead, America’s leaders have allowed jihadists to make a mockery of justice. Muslim Brotherhood radicals waltz freely in and out of the nation’s capital. Border security remains a joke. A functioning entry-exit program for foreign visa-holders is still nonexistent. There still is no systemic, coherent and unapologetic plan to keep Islamic radicals from spreading their hate and endangering Americans in our military, prisons and schools. 

I’m sick of 9/11 anniversary ceremonies by politicians who pay lip service to peace and justice for our country, but refuse to secure them all the way, every day. Remembrance is worthless without resolve. Resolve is useless without action. 

Want to honor the 9/11 dead? Take care of unfinished business here at home. Put America first.

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Sign the Petition to Stop Funding for Obamacare Before House Votes

We need as many people as we can to sign this petition as possible in the next 12 - 24 hours before the House makes a vote.

Click Here To Sign The Petition

This is critically important because leadership is putting the pressure on to get the House to take another meaningless vote.

The Ruling Elite is up to it again! They want you to think they have voted for defunding Obamacare, while actually not doing anything meaningful – once again.

Eric Cantor’s 5 Step plan is described at Breitbart.com in more detail. The gist of it is this:

1. The House will pass a Continuing Resolution that funds Obamacare and, simultaneously, will pass a concurrent resolution that defunds Obamacare. The two bills will be ‘enrolled’ as if they were one bill — so one vote passes two bills at the same time. The Clerk of the House will send to the Senate the concurrent resolution that defunds Obamacare but includes funding for the rest of the government, and will hold the ‘clean’ continuing resolution at the desk until the Senate votes on the concurrent resolution that defunds Obamacare.

2. After passage in the House, the Senate has to have an up/down vote on the concurrent resolution with the defund language before the continuing resolution can move to the Senate. This is yet another show vote. Because there is no price to be paid for voting it down and continuing to fund Obamacare, it has no binding leverage tied to it. It is truly a vote just for appearances.

3. After the Senate has the show vote on defund, the Senate may then pass the “clean” continuing resolution, which will then go to the President for his signature without having to go back to the House of Representatives. This continuing resolution would fund the government and would have no binding impact on defunding Obamacare in any way.

The Ruling Elite thinks another game, trick and lie to the people is acceptable. It is not.

The ruling elite in the House thinks that what we want is recorded votes in the House and Senate.  They are wrong.   What we want is for them to stop funding Obamacare.

Sign below to tell Congress: Obamcare is not ready for big business, big labor, or big government and Obamacare is not ready for the American people. Congress must pass a Continuing Resolution to fund the federal government for all of fiscal year 2014 that binds the defund Obamacare effort – you must stop spending of any kind on Obamacare in 2014.

We have heard enough meaningless, empty promises from the Congress and it is time for action. No more games. No more tricks. No more lies. Exempt America and Defund Obamcare Now. 

Click Here To Sign The Petition

Action Alert: Speaker Boehner & House Need to "Go Big" or "Go Home" on Defunding Obamacare

Patriots, the fight to defund Obamacare is here and now!

In the U.S. Senate, Senator Mike Lee, Rand Paul and Ted Cruz are doing their job and have been leading the charge in the effort to defund Obamacare in any Continuing Resolution talks with the 'Don't Fund It' campaign.  To sign the 'Don't Fund It' petition and for contact information on which GOP Senators REFUSE to support this initiative, click here.  

To date, Senator Rob Portman has refused to support the Don't Fund It Campaign (Click here for more).

In the GOP led House, under Speaker John Boehner's leadership, one would think, that after every single GOP member campaigned against Obamacare to get elected or reelected and to raise campaign donations, they would be overwhelmingly in support of defunding Obamacare.

Sadly this is not the case!

In response to the Defunding of Obamacare through any Continuing Resolution effort of Rep. Mark Meadows that is being supported by the conservative contingent in the House, Speaker Boehner & Rep. Eric Cantor are trying to undermine this effort....

Majority Leader Eric Cantor is trying to thread the needle with a proposal for the continuing-resolution bill that would force the House and the Senate to vote on defunding Obamacare but not make that a requirement for funding the government going forward.

But the plan is already coming under fire by House conservatives who object that it will not use the threat of a government shutdown as leverage to force Democrats to buckle and stop funding the health-care law.

Under the Cantor plan, the House would vote on two measures, the CR and a resolution that amends the CR to defund Obamacare. Both measures would be brought under a rule that allows the Senate to send just the clean CR to the president, but only after they first vote on whether to defund Obamacare. If the Senate voted against defunding Obamacare, they could then pass the clean CR.

Patriots -- it is time for the games in D.C. to stop! It is time for Speaker Boehner and the GOP Congressman to do their job! 

It is time for Speaker Boehner & the GOP to 

Go Big or Go Home!

Liberty groups across the country are hammering away on the GOP Congressmen in their respective states to do the job they were elected to do -- stop Obamacare!  Here in Ohio, we must continue to do our part!

In the 2010 election we elected 5 new GOP Congressmen from Ohio -- to date they have failed to do their job and have refused to sign on with Rep. Meadows efforts to defund Obamacare in any Continuing Resolution talks.

To date, only 3 of the 12 GOP Congressman from Ohio that campaigned against Obamacare are supporting the "real" effort to defund Obamacare in any Continuing Resolution talks.

Passion to Action

Rep. Chabot, Rep. Wenstrup & Rep. Jordan are the only GOP Congressmen from Ohio that signed Rep. Meadows letter to defund Obamacare in any Continuing Resolution talks.  

Please take the following actions

• Contact Rep Chabot, Wenstrup & Jordan for standing strong against Obamacare.

• Contact the remaining GOP Congressman from Ohio and tell them to do the job they were elected to do. Tell them we want them to support Rep. Meadows effort to defund Obamacare and ask when they will be signing the letter.

• Tell them we DO NOT support the duplicitous tactics of Majority Leader Cantor & Speaker  Boehner to undermine the effort to defund Obamacare in Continuing Resolution talks.

• Tell them to support the legislation being introduced today by Congressman DeSantis & Senator Vitter to eliminate the Obamacare Exemptions for Washington.

Rep. Steve Chabot, OH-1 

D.C. Office Phone: (202) 225-2216
D.C. Office Fax: (202) 225-3012

Email: https://chabot.house.gov/contact-me/email-me
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/RepSteveChabot

Twitter:  http://twitter.com/#!/repstevechabot

Rep. Brad Wenstrup, OH -2

D.C. Office Phone: (202)225-3164
D.C. Office Fax: (202)225-1992
Email: http://wenstrup.house.gov/contact/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RepBradWenstrup
Twitter: https://twitter.com/@RepBradWenstrup

Rep. Jim Jordan, OH-4

D.C. Office Phone: (202)225-2676
D.C. Office Fax: (202)226-0577
Email: http://jordan.house.gov/contact/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/repjimjordan
Twitter: https://twitter.com/jim_jordan

Rep. Bob Latta, OH-5

D.C. Office Phone: (202)225-6405
D.C. Office Fax: (800)278-8203
Email: http://jordan.house.gov/contact/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/boblatta
Twitter: https://twitter.com/boblatta

Rep. Bill Johnson, OH-6

D.C. Office Phone: (202) 225-5705
D.C. Office Fax: (202) 225-5907
Email: http://billjohnson.house.gov/contact/

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/RepBillJohnson

Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/RepBillJohnson 

Rep. Bob Gibbs, OH-7

D.C. Office Phone: (202)225-6265

D.C. Office Fax: (202)225-3394

Email: https://gibbs.house.gov/contact-me

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RepBobGibbs

Twitter: https://twitter.com/repbobgibbs

Rep. Mike Turner, OH-10

D.C. Office Phone: (202) 225-6465
D.C. Office Fax: (202) 225-6754

Email: http://turner.house.gov/contact/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RepMikeTurner

Twitter: https://twitter.com/RepMikeTurner

Rep. Pat Tiberi, OH-12

D.C. Office Phone: (202)225-5355
D.C. Office Fax: (202)226-4523

Email: http://tiberi.house.gov/contact/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RepPatTiberi

Twitter: https://twitter.com/tiberipress

Rep. Dave Joyce, OH-14

D.C. Office Phone: (202) 225-5731
D.C. Office Fax: (202) 225-3307
Email: https://joyce.house.gov/email-me
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RepDaveJoyce
Twitter: https://twitter.com/RepDaveJoyce

Rep. Steve Stivers, OH-15

D.C. Office Phone: (202)225-2015
D.C. Office Fax: (202)225-3529
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Rep-Steve-Stivers/116058275133542

Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/RepSteveStivers

Website: http://stivers.house.gov  

Rep. Jim Renacci, OH-16

D.C. Office Phone: (202)225-3876
D.C. Office Fax: (202)225-3059

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/repjimrenacci

Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/repjimrenacci

Website: http://renacci.house.gov

DeSantis & Vitter Introduce Legislation to Eliminate Obamacare Exemptions for Washington

                         For Immediate Release:                                                             

                         Contact: Elizabeth Dillon

                         202-225-2706

                         September 9, 2013                                                                                             

                                                                                               

MEDIA ADVISORY

DeSantis and Vitter Introduce Legislation to Eliminate Obamacare Exemptions for Washington

Washington, DC - Congressman Ron DeSantis (Fla.-6) and U.S. Senator David Vitter (R-La.) will hold a press conference tomorrow, September 10, to introduce their legislation to eliminate the Obamacare exemptions for Washington. Their legislation will require that all Members of Congress, the President, Vice President, and all political appointees in the Administration purchase their health insurance on the Obamacare Exchange without the help of taxpayer-funded subsidies. This legislation also eliminates the special subsidies for congressional staff if it is greater than what they would receive if they were not employed by a congressional office. DeSantis will be introducing the legislation tomorrow and will also offer it as an amendment to the House Continuing Resolution.

DeSantis, Vitter Press Conference on Eliminating Obamacare Exemptions

WHO:             Senator David Vitter, Congressman Ron DeSantis, Congressman Dennis Ross (FL-15), other members TBD

WHAT:          Press Conference to introduce legislation eliminating Obamacare exemptions for Washington

WHERE:       House Triangle, on the southeast grounds of the U.S. Capitol                     

DATE:           Tomorrow, Tuesday September 10, 2013

                                TIME:            2:30 p.m. ET

*contact Vitter: Luke_Bolar@vitter.senate.gov or 202-228-5853, or DeSantis: Elizabeth_Dillon@mail.house.gov or 202-225-2706 for more information

On September 3, Vitter, DeSantis, and a group of lawmakers sent a letter to the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), raising concerns about Obamacare exemptions for Members of Congress, congressional staff, the President, Vice President, and political appointees in the Administration. The lawmakers, who include Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah), and Rep. Phil Gingrey (R-Ga.) urged OPM to make certain there are no exemptions in their final rule on Obamacare.

For more updates on Rep. DeSantis, follow @RepDeSantis on Twitter, like Rep. DeSantis on Facebook or visithttp://www.desantis.house.gov.

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Mr. Speaker! Mr. Ryan! What part of "no" don't you understand?

21 Days to Obamacare : If you have not yet signed the online petition Don’tFundIt, go here. You will receive an email to confirm that you intended to sign the petition. As of 7 pm on Mon., Sept. 9, there were over 1,172,000 signatures, and counting. We’re on our way to two million.

Mr. Speaker: 

Just Say No to Immigration "Reform"

The rally last Saturday (Sept. 7) against House Immigration “Reform” in front of Speaker John Boehner’s West Chester office on Saturday got the message out. The turnout was about 600 – a great showing.

If you were unable to attend, pick up the phone tomorrow and call Speaker Boehner’s office to let him know you do not want ANY immigration “reform” bill, lest it end up in committee. You can tell him you are calling in support of the hundreds of patriots who rallied at his office over the weekend. If you cannot call, there’s also a fax number below.

Speaker Boehner’s details:

Butler County Office  PH (513) 779-5400

Miami County Office  PH (937) 339-1524

Clark County Office   PH (937) 322-1120

D.C. Office:

PH  (202) 225-6205

FAX (202) 225-0704

And his mailbox (send postcards):

Speaker John Boehner

7969 Cincinnati-Dayton Road, Suite B

West Chester, OH 45069

Rep. Ryan: Amnesty will cost Americans more jobs

And this week is Affect Cong. Paul Ryan week. Go here for details on this faux Tea Party legislator, a true RINO. He needs to hear from patriots who oppose the amnesty "reform" he is promoting.

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Action Alert: Operation Affect Paul Ryan

Patriots, once again, you are being thrown under the bus.... a bus full of illegal immigrants and it is being driven by Congressman Paul Ryan.

This would be the same Congressman Paul Ryan that looked for Tea Party support of his budget plan, the same Vice Presidential candidate Paul Ryan that had his campaign staff reach out to Tea Party groups to attend his campaign events and rallies -- the same Paul Ryan that told you how important you were -- when he needed your vote to get elected.

Congressman Ryan is done using you as a 'tool' and no longer needs the Tea Party. Now that he has his new friend Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook to defend him, he is brushing off our calls telling him to stand strong against illegal immigration and the Senate Immigration Reform bill (S. 744)..... (emphasis added)

The effort to make him switch his position isn’t working: Ryan says he is committed to passing a law to allow 11 million undocumented immigrants to eventually become U.S. citizens.

Ryan, an eight-term congressman, isn’t deterred by the opposition. “I’ve seen it all and I am used to this kind of political activity,” he said in the interview. “It does not surprise me; it doesn’t really affect me.”

That's right Patriots -- Congressman Ryan says he is not affected by your calls, emails, faxes, etc...   Now that he is done needing your support, he is done with needing the inconvenient opinion of the Tea Party.

And in an even bigger slap in the face, at a recent bi-lingual town hall meeting hosted by Congressman Ryan, he doubled down on his commitment for immigration reform to be voted on this year in the House, regardless if they have support or not.....

However, during a bilingual listening session on Friday, Ryan said he wanted all components of immigration reform to be brought up for a floor vote, regardless of whether they ultimately received majority Republican support or not.

“We don’t know if we have a majority until we vote on it,” Ryan explained. He also said he’d been in close consultation with Speaker Boehner about how to proceed with the bill.

Congressman Ryan says he is not deterred by our opposition to his support of weak immigration policies, Congressman Ryan says he is used to this kind of political activity and implies he just brushes it off with indifference and it does not affect him

It is time to put in play Operation Affect Paul Ryan and let's show this phony Tea Party Conservative how our political activity can "affect" him -- let's shut his phone's emails and social media sites down with floods of calls, emails and posts on Facebook and Twitter.

We are asking that everyone please make a commitment to contact and "affect" Paul Ryan by calling emailing, tweeting (#affectpaulryan) and on Facebook, regardless of the topic of posts leave your comments regarding his weak stance on immigration.

Rep. Paul Ryan

D.C. Phone: (202)225-3031
D.C. Fax: (202)225-3393
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/paulryanwi
Twitter:  https://twitter.com/reppaulryan  

For tweeting please use @RepPaulRyan and #affectpaulryan.

Emailing -- 

In attempts to stop grassroots group members living outside their districts from contacting them via email, many of the elected elite in DC can only be contacted electronically through their web page by supplying a zip code from within their respective district.

Below you will find the zip code and extension needed to send Congressman Ryan through the contact link on his web page. 

Contact Link: https://paulryan.house.gov/contact/email.htm

Janesville -- 53545-3959
Kenosha -- 53140-3751
Racine -- 53403-1214

Tell Congressman Ryan it is time to put American Citizens First!