We can and hold these families in our prayers. Thank you. Back live now on capitol hill where the House Appropriations committee is returning from its lunch break. They continue work on 2021 a spending bill. Live coverage here on cspan2. Mistaken at the best of times. They are unconscionable in the midst of a pandemic. I want to remind my colleagues that foodstamp spending is a powerful anti recession tool and has previously been estimated that for each dollar spent from benefits a dollar 70 is generated in economic activity. Let me say thank you again to chairman bishop, Ranking Member and their leadership and other areas of the bill. Their strong investments to ensure the continued availability and safety of the nation food supply as well as language designed to protect the health and safety of workers in our meatpacking plants and our poultry plants as well as the farmworkers who are out in the field every single day. I thank you very, very much that all of the attention youve paid
Kids spoke with governors from across the u. S. About vaping and ecigarette usage among teenagers. He talked with the governors during the National Governors Association Winter meeting in washington, d. C. We were chatting this morning as governors in an executive committee and talking about how governors at the end of the day have to get a job done. Thats why learning from each other in a bipartisan way is so important. Whether its infrastructure or economic development, there are lessons we can learn. One challenge we all have is Public Health. The vaping crisis that is going all across this nation and is spreading with a frightening facility among our young people. We have two great governors who are going to speak to us about it now. Its my pleasure to introduce governor dewine from ohio and Governor Brown from oregon. Thank you. [ applause ] set our guests up. Good to see you. Thank you. Good afternoon, everyone. Im kate brown, governor of oregon and chair of the nga health and hu
University announced winners for the annual george polk awards in journalism. They talked about the challenges reporting during wartime domestically and internationally. This runs one hour. Good afternoon and welcome. I am john darnton the curator of the george polk awards and it is my pleasure to announce the winners for the most outstanding works of journalism in 2019. I would like to express my gratitude to long island university, the sponsor of the klein, li kimberly you president , for her unflagging support. I would like to thank my friend and colleague, ralph engleman, our faculty coordinator. As many of you know our awards were established in 1949 to commemorate george polk, the cbs correspondent assassinated the year before during the greek civil war. Yeare now in our 71st having bestowed, as of today, 3125 prizes. Legacy,ng with polks our judges on a reporters whenever possible and not just their news organizations. Dogged out those who are in their investigations, resourcefu
And that is why learning from each other in a bipartisan way is so important. And whether its infrastructure or economic development, there are lessons that we can learn one challenge we all have is Public Health. The vaping crisis is going all across this nation, spreading with a frightening facility among young people. We have two great governors who are going to speak to us about it now. It is my pleasure to introduce governor to wine from ohio and Governor Brown from oregon. [applause] good afternoon and chair of the nba health and human services. Thank you, governors, for your great remarks and i appreciate everyones patience as we took a set break. Im delighted that all of you are here today to join us to talk about a critically important issue that is facing our young people in our state. That is the nicotine epidemic. And the Public Health crisis that we all know is vaping. It is claiming too many lives and is making countless of our Community Members sick. While the nicotine a
The natural disasters in their state. Will get started right away with the next panel. Running behind schedule. But we do not want to cut these guys ashore so we will move into fortifying our future. States becoming for resilience. Whether theyre located on the coast, and the mountains, in the midwest or anywhere in between, they have struggled with the challenges, the disasters that impact the nation. A nice love an important discussion about how to defeat those challenges and how we as governors can prepare our citizens to the resiliency challenges of the future. So we will have governor of maine, california governor and in north dakota, and pleased to welcome them to lead the discussions. [applause]. Thank you. Welcome to all of you to this discussion about fortifying our futures. And states becoming more resilient. Let me start by talking about my estate. In maine, my state as one point 3m people. It is small. The most dispersed population of any state in the country. Just on the n