Op Ed: Keeping America’s food supply safe
Story Date: 4/11/2014

  Source: THE HILL, 4/10/14
 
Editor's Note: Pompeo has represented Kansas’s 4th Congressional District since 2011. He sits on the Energy and Commerce and the Intelligence committees. Butterfield has represented North Carolina’s 1st Congressional District since 2004. He sits on the Energy and Commerce Committee.



For families trying to make it in this economy, every dollar counts. And it’s getting harder. The Department of Agriculture (USDA) recently announced that it expects food prices to jump 3.5 percent in 2014. For these families, food costs make up a substantial part of their spending each and every week.


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