A recent column in the Washington Post by former U.S. Senators and Presidential candidates George McGovern and Bob Dolepoint out an outrageous oversight in the proposed Farming Bill before Congress and U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro has been no where in sight to comment on it.

DeLauro’s official website has all sorts of comments on not cutting the gas tax and ensuring the safety of imported food, but she has failed to take issue with a proposed funding cut in a bipartisan program that offers food to hungry children living in poverty.

According to Dole and McGover, the bill would cut the program from “$840 million over five years to $60 million this coming year. After that, there would be no guarantee of funding at all. The $840 million in funding represents less than 1 percent of the proposed total spending in the farm bill.”

The bill does include more needless subsidies of agribusiness and protections that are not needed. Strange, from a Congresswoman who posts a picutre of her reading to a child in school, that she would turn her back on the very poor she claims to champion on a daily basis.

Maybe we should ask DeLauro if finding out whether astroturf is dangerous is more important than feeding hungry children, or has Dick Blumenthal already gotten to the bottom of that pressing health issue?