These hearings transcripts present discussions on amendments offered by the Committee on Education and Labor to H.R. 8, the Healthy Meals for Healthy Americans Act of 1994, which will reauthorize and improve the national school lunch program and the child nutrition programs under the National School Lunch (NSL) Act and the Child Nutrition Act of 1966. Statements and testimony are presented for the following: (1) Senator Charles Stenholm (Texas); (2) Senator William Goodling (Pennsylvania), who emphasized that the national school lunch program should expand to serve a larger number of children; (3) Ellen Haas, assistant secretary of Food and Consumer Services, Department of Agriculture, who advocated improving the distribution of commodities; (4) Pat Holstein, director of food service of a South Carolina school district; (5) Marilyn A. Hurt, the chair of the public policy and legislative committee of the American School Food Service Association; (6) Catherine Miller, the president of the American Commodity Distribution Association; and (7) Richard Pasco, vice-president of government affairs of the National Pork Producers Council. (AP)