Posted on 12/12/2014 4:58:32 PM PST by Libloather
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SCHOOL LUNCHES:
Eases rules requiring more whole grains in school lunches and suspends the lower sodium standards due to take effect in 2017, while keeping other healthy-eating rules. Some school nutrition directors — and some students complaining of yucky lunches — lobbied for a break from the standards championed by first lady Michelle Obama.
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MARIJUANA:
Offers a mixed bag for pot smokers. The bill blocks the Justice Department from raiding medical marijuana dispensaries in states that permit them. But it also blocks federal and local spending to legalize marijuana in Washington, D.C., where voters approved recreational use in a November referendum. It's unclear what the practical effect of the spending ban will be.
PENSIONS:
Allows some pension plans to cut benefits promised to current and future retirees. The change is designed to save some financially strapped plans from going broke. It applies to multiemployer plans, which cover more than 10 million people mostly at small, unionized employers, often in the construction business.
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Attempts to switch off federal rules that are making it harder to find old-fashioned incandescent bulbs. The bill extends a ban on the government spending money to enforce the ongoing phase-out of incandescent bulbs. It may not have much effect, since manufacturers and stores are already well-along in the switch to spiral bulbs and other energy-saving alternatives.
If people want them, someone will make them.
Get fedguv OUT of K-12.
Now!
Has more good than bad.
The fact Obama likes it is why I find it objectionable.
Who remembers “focused like a laser beam” on jobs? Was I dreaming?
You might save money in theory by buying those things, especially the newer LED ones. But at what point does a light bulb become a heirloom?
How true — there’s nothing quite as stifling as one size must fit all.
I wish the light bulb ban would go away entirely.
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