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Wisconsin dairy farmers woke up to a big win on Wednesday morning after the U.S. House of Representatives voted to pass Rep. Tom Tiffany’s bipartisan chocolate milk bill on Tuesday night. Tiffany’s amendment would ensure that no money from the proposed Agriculture Appropriations Act would be used to implement a rule that would ban sweetened milk in schools. The Biden administration submitted a rule back in February that would establish new nutrition guidelines for school meals. If approved, the proposed new regulations could limit the amount of flavored milk in high schools, such as chocolate and strawberry, while students in elementary and middle schools would be limited to a selection of unflavored milk.

Chocolate milk is one step closer to staying in schools after yesterday. The bipartisan amendment, introduced by Tom Tiffany (WI-07), that prevents the Biden administration from banning chocolate milk from schools passed by voice vote and will be included in H.R. 4368, the Agriculture Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 2024.

When Merrick Garland was testifying in the Senate before becoming the attorney general, he said he would ensure that “the laws of our country are fairly and faithfully enforced, and that the rights of all Americans are protected." 

It’s up to House Republicans to bring transparency and accountability to the American people about the Biden family’s wrongdoings since Attorney General Merrick Garland can’t do the job, says Rep. Tom Tiffany, R-Wis.