food prices

For Immediate Release
May 22, 2008

Three days after visiting a Manchester food bank, Sununu voted against a proposal backed by the NH Food Bank that would double funding for food banks

(Manchester, NH) - The Coordinated Campaign of the New Hampshire Democratic Party released a web video today examining John Sununu's double talk on food banks. Sununu visited a Manchester food bank on May 12 and paid lip service to the high cost of food, but just three days later, he voted against a proposal to double food bank funding, including $50 million for 2008. [Senate Vote #130, 5/15/08] The proposal was part of the 2008 Farm Bill, which the New Hampshire Food Bank supported.

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John Stephen Offers Plan To Cut Skyrocketing Food PricesCandidate's Plan Removes Federal Mandates, Subsidies And Price Controls To Reduce Costs
MANCHESTER, NH- 1st District Congressional Candidate John Stephen today released a plan to reduce food costs, which have skyrocketed over the past year.  Stephen noted that the price of corn has grown by 150% in less than three years and that wheat has increased by 109% in just the past year.  He called for immediate action by Congress to eliminate the ethanol mandate for gasoline, to get rid of farm subsidies that cost taxpayers billions of dollars each year and raise the cost of grain, to remove the federal price floors which hike crop prices and make it difficult for American farmers to sell overseas, to stop paying farmers to farm on bad land and, modeling on programs currently run by New Hampshire counties, to start using non-violent federal prisoners to farm available and open federal land on prison grounds to provide food to pantries and nutrition programs servicing low-income seniors.  Each of these plans would help to lower the price of food for American consumers.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
May 14, 2008
 
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SUNUNU: CORN-BASED ETHANOL PRODUCTION HURTS

NATION’S ECONOMY AND ENVIRONMENT

Comments at Capitol Hill hearing

on impact of fuel subsidies on the price of food

WASHINGTON, DC – United States Senator John Sununu (R-NH), a member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee (HSGAC), today (5/7) underscored the damaging impact of corn-based ethanol production policy on the nation’s economy and environment at a Capitol Hill hearing on Wednesday morning.

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SUNUNU, COLLEAGUES: DIVERSION OF CORN INTO

ETHANOL PRODUCTION HAS RAISED FOOD PRICES

Group asks EPA to consider ethanol waiver

WASHINGTON, DC – United States Senator John Sununu (R-NH) recently joined 23 other Senators in asking the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to consider waiving a 2007 mandate requiring fuel refiners to blend corn-based ethanol into America’s fuel supply.  In a letter to EPA administrator Stephen Johnson, the Senators expressed their concern that the diversion of corn supplies into fuel has contributed to higher food prices in the U.S. and around the world.