Senate Agriculture Chairman Pat Roberts is trying to reach a sweeping agreement on child nutrition programs in time to move a reauthorization bill this week.

 

However, heading into the weekend the Kansas Republican still didn't have a deal on key policy issues, including future standards for sodium and whole grains, or where the extra spending the bill would need to win support from Democrats would come from.

 

The committee is tentatively scheduled to mark up a bill on Thursday.

 

In addition to getting Democratic support, Roberts also has his eye on what can pass the House. The bill must be “somewhat consistent” with what the chairman of the House Education and Workforce Committee, John Kline, R-Minn., will support, Roberts told Agri-Pulse. “To get all those parties together … has been very difficult,” Roberts said.

 

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