This comes from the businessmen, is. Of the biggest there so hes really sincere. Convinced he is. Nevertheless, 1 3 of our food is wasted. Formight have other figures that. Kilograms or pounds or whatever measurement ms. Lets keep it at 1 3. Lost or spliced. Emissions to the nvironment, pesticides, fertilizers. Fertilizers. Methane. Thats 23,000 more than the food, thats food amounts to labor income, water, agriculture water. Ads of its the first user of waters, have lack of in the world as well. Fertile soils get lost. In developing countries, of speaking about the early stages of food, which tommic of today. Food lost in the harvesting technique, the transport. We could have other meetings to improve that part. Theres an obligation of us all countries to ping that part of their work. But on the developed side of ountries, were speaking of supply chains. Retailer, or of the the supplier, and the consumer, so thats us. For instance, the United States, the united kingdom, they food or w
Committees of jurisdiction such as commerce and banking to pass legislation with the same bipartisan support we experience experience with map21 so we are going to marcus bell up at the end of april. We must move it forward and i know that members on this committee on both sides including senator carper and senator barrasso working with senators vitter and i are all committed to this. I hope hope what youll do today is speak from the heart about what it means to you if in fact it is as important to you as a think it is. I hope he will tell us its important. If you dont pick its important, if you think the federal government could walk away from this tell us that. We need to know from you so this is a very important thing for me because again i have so much respect for folks who implement what we do here and with that i will turn it to my Ranking Member senators vitter. Thank you madam chairman for holding todays hearing. This is really important to get the local and state perspective o
I come from my home state. That would be one of the final four. May be. Maybe so. Im happy to see all of you. Thank you for pulling together this good group and we look forward to hearing from you. I will be very brief to help draft the last transportation bill and im so happy to have a chance to work with all the senators, senator boxer and senator john brasso. Hopefully we come up with a five or six year bill. So that we have a chance to help out a little bit on that front as well. We are really pleased, madam chair with the state and local folks. State and local governments are stepping up on transportation and that remains the case to be seen today. And so we are finding officials making some of the transportation infrastructure. When local officials asked the voters for more money, he or she is going to be focused like a laser on this and what that means is that it isnt that they are investing in these products. You are investing in a shorter commute with less conduction and we ha
Within the honor code. You are pushing for those core values. It seems for you to still have confidence, even though a significant chunk of the missiliers are cheating is a problem. There are 25,000 Global Strike commanders. do annex about job. A very small percentage of folks who did not live up to the core values. [indiscernible] portion,a significant certainly from an air force pay. What i think youll find is the root of this, there was a few people at the crux of this problem. This believe that i will help somebody, when they have breached their integrity, which is something that we have talked peoplewe will hold accountable at all levels. To ensure that climate exists and we allow our people to do the job the way they should. Are those whoe apparently actively cheated, and then another group who knew something about it. But said nothing. If one person, if one person had spoken up his could have been very different. That is why we are really focusing on what integrity means. It mea
Militants who have slept through the north are now getting close to the capital of baghdad. Iraq is getting closer to civil war. What does this mean for companies that operate their . There are companies that do business in iraq. Overwhelmingly it is in oil sector. Reserves ofven oil 100 50 billion barrels, almost as much as 100 27 cubic feet of natural gas and has quadrupled production by 2017. The that has attracted the big oil companies. They have been operating in the country since 2011 in northern iraq, which is basically self ruled. Of it is considered an easier place to do business because a corporation can own the entire project and projects are actually transferable. Three quarters of the oil is actually in the south. It is about 90 of exports. Iraqtinued contributed profitable production. What has happened to their business since the outbreak of the violence . Short term, not a lot but longer term there is ramifications. There are reports that a pipeline exports are under mil