U.S. Representative Sandy Levin
12th District of Michigan

Below is the text of the letter from Rep. Levin on this issue:

Thank you for contacting me about the Commodity Supplemental Food Program. 

I completely agree with you.  This program is too important to allow President Bush to eliminate it with his misguided budget.  Michigan has 75,921 residents who receive much needed, nutritious food on a monthly basis through the Commodity Supplemental Food Program (CSFP), yet President Bush's proposed budget seeks to eliminate the CSFP.  This vital nutrition program provided $17,001,903 for Michigan's program in Fiscal Year 2005, primarily for low-income seniors but also serving many women, infants and children.

I recently signed a letter to the Chairman and Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies, as well as a letter to Secretary of Agriculture Mike Johanns, urging the restoration of CSFP.  Through the CSFP, programs like Focus: HOPE have been able to provide Michigan with much needed food assistance for the past 37 years.  Please be assured that I will fight to preserve the CSFP so that programs like Focus: HOPE are able to continue their monumentally important work.  

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