Witnesses offered testimony bearing on budget issues and the reauthorization of the Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) Programs; the Special Supplemental Summer Food Program; the State Administrative Expense Program; the Commodity Distribution Program; and the Nutrition Education and Training Program. Testimony concerning permanently authorized programs, such as the School Lunch and Child Care Food Programs was also heard. Witnesses and subcommittee members (1) discussed recent experiences with child nutrition programs and the administration's budget and legislative proposals for fiscal year 1986; (2) expressed concerns about the effects of imposing fixed costs and argued for and against the administration's proposals; (3) described characteristics and operational procedures of programs; (4) indicated how proposed reductions in federal funding would affect school lunch programs in Iowa; (5) projected effects of the proposed means test for the Child Care Food Program; (6) indicated continuing need for the Summer Breakfast and Lunch Program in New York City; and (7) advocated return to two basic elements of sound nutrition programs, namely, addressing of the nutritional status of low-income children and effective use of agricultural surpluses. Testimony submitted for the record is appended. (RH)