Of the Obama Administration. Held by the Consumer Federation of america, this is about two hours and 15 minutes. Good morning. Welcome. My name is thomas, the director of the Food Policy Institute and Consumer Federation of america and i would like to welcome you and thank you for attending our 40th annual National Food policy conference. Today is also the second day of the jewish passover holiday, so i would like to say happy passover. As many of you know, Consumer Federation of america is an association of nearly 300 nonprofit consumer organizatio organizations. We were established in 1968 to advance the consumer interest through research, education and advocacy. And with focus on a lot of different Consumer Protection topics, but particularly relevant to this conference, we do food safety, nutrition and agricultural policy. So this Conference Provides an opportunity to hear from some of the key policymakers and players in the food policy world. Opportunity to explore food policy fro
Food safety. Cluded the federation of america posted this event. Good morning. All right. Good morning. Welcome. My name is thomas. I am the director of the Food Policy Institute at Consumer Federation of america. I would like to welcome you and thank you for attending our 40th annual National Food policy conference. Today is also the second day of the jewish passover holiday and so i would like to say happy passover. You know, Consumer Federation of america is an association of nearly 300 nonprofit consumer organizations. We were established in 1962 advance the form through advocacy. We focus on a lot of different Consumer Protection topics but particularly relevant to this conference is food safety, and agriculture policy. This Conference Provides an opportunity to hear from some of the key policymakers and players in the food policy world. And opportunity to explore food policy from a diverse range of perspectives. I hope you will agree we have a really Great Program for the shares
Justice sotomayor spoke to law students at stanford university. See her remarks tonight on cspan. Consumer of america later, experts on food policy priorities of the Trump Administrations. Good morning. Good morning. Welcome. My name is thomas today is the second day of the jewish pass over holiday. I would like to say happy pass over. Many of you know Consumer Federation of america is an association of 300 profit organizations. We expand our research and advocacies. We focus on a lot of Consumer Protection topics but particularly relevant to this conference, we do food safety and nutrition and agriculture policies. So this Conference Provides an opportunity to hear from some of the key policiymakers and playes and opportunity to explore policies from a diverse range of perspective. I hope that you will agree that we have a Great Program for this years conference and that program reflects the work of our Advisory Committee. I dont have the packet with me but if you look of our packet y
At this. Lets look and see if the threat you have faced caused by the fear you identified. Very often, it is not, particularly when it faces the issues of undocumented immigrants. You can watch this on our companion network, cspan. The Consumer Federation of america held their annual food policy conference recently here in washington, d. C. Up next, a keynote address from congressman, jim mcgovern here in the u. S. And his suggestions on how to address it. A panel of experts discuss what they thought would be the food policy priorities of the Trump Administration and how they would contrast with past objectives of the obama and bush administration. My name is thomas kremion, the director of the Food Policy Institute at Consumer Federation of america. I would like to welcome you and thank you p ffor attending our h annual, National Food policy conference. Today is also the second day of the jewish passover holiday. I would like to say, happy passover. As many of you know, Consumer Feder
Im raj mathai. And im jessica aguirre. At this hour a series of storms moving right toward the bay area. The first one already here. Want to show you a live look at our camera in richmond. Those raindrops are right on the lens for you to see. We have multiple reports tonight as many of us will be on the move for thanksgiving. Lets start with our chief meteorologist jeff ranieri. And sxwrjeff, whats the timeli . The storm is continuing to move in across the bay area. Starting to ramp up. You can see these areas of yellow on the Doppler Radar. Thats indicating some heavy rainfall. Its now on the way from San Francisco down the peninsula. Well take you to the north bay. It has been most consistent here over the past two hours from santa rosa to petaluma. Its now beginning to push off to the south and also the east and starting to impact San Francisco with some pockets of heavier rainfall. Right now moving through the arena. The sunset also down toward the embarcade embarcadero. The east b