A Senate Committee is set to decide Wednesday regarding new rules for school meals. Washington correspondent Scott Carr has the details: Under legislation a Senate panel is considering, schools will have more flexibility to serve refined grains and salty foods to the nation’s school children. The Senate Agriculture Committee is scheduled to vote Wednesday on a bipartisan bill designed to help schools that have complained the Obama administration’s healthier school meal rules are too restrictive. Senate Agriculture Chairman Pat Roberts of Kansas and Senator Debbie Stabenow of Michigan introduced the bill Monday after reaching an agreement to ease requirements for whole grains and delay an upcoming deadline to cut sodium levels. Stabenow is the panel’s top Democrat. The compromise signals a truce between first lady Michelle Obama and congressional Republicans who have been at odds over the rules for more than two years.
