Thank you for joining us. Its amazing to see similar lawyer faces. Its been a great evolution. Its great to have you here. Im here to say thank you. Special thank you to ambassadors i never ate please stand if you are an ambassador. [applause] many have fun and from across the country to share information and insights. At our first annual luncheon they would be reading tylox. I hope you enjoy that. Today, we are informing, empowering, and connecting women together. Until will have amazing conversation about Human Trafficking and harassment in the workplace. Empowering conversations with female ceos who made a bag i want to share their insights. I hope you can join us for the poor program. Thank you to our sponsors for making this possible. Founding partners. [applause] our 2017 presenter, sharon was joining us for the first time this year. [applause] are supporting sponsor, loreal and a table sponsor, u. S. Bank. Thank you. A few brief housekeeping notes. Please join the conversation o
Good morning everyone. Hi behalf of the political ceo and editorinchief, welcome to the fifth annual womens rural summit. [applause] thank you so much for joining us. It is absolutely amazing to see so many familiar faces as well as a lot of new faces. It has been a great evolution and im so glad to have you all with us today. I am here to do a simple job which is to say thank you. Thank you to everyone for attending. A special thank you to our ambassador and at every table there is an investor that will be helping lead conversations. If i could just ask you to stand quickly if you are an ambassador. [applause] these are remarkable women. Many of whom have flown in from across the country to help the Youth Empowerment information and share insight. Our first annual inaugural luncheon and best was large and they will be leading so i hope you all really enjoy that curious today is not just explore the impact of women of politics and power. We are informing, empowering and connecting wome
Please welcome politico Vice President and general manager, alexis williams. [applause] good morning, everyone. On behalf of the politico ceo and editorinchief, welcome to the fifth annual women rural summit. [applause] thank you so much for joining us. It is absolutely amazing to see so many familiar faces, as well as a lot of new faces. It has been a great evolution and im so glad to have you all with us today. I am here to do a simple job which is to say thank you. Thank you to everyone for attending. A special thank you to our ambassadors, and at every table there is an ambassador that will be helping lead conversations. If i could just ask you to stand quickly if you are an ambassador. [applause] remarkable women, many of whom have flown in from across the country to help the Youth Empowerment information and share insight. Our first annual inaugural and they will be leading dialogues, so i hope you all enjoy that. We are informing, empowering and connecting women such as yourselv
The subcommittee convenes this hearing entitled safety of the u. S. Food supply, and continuing concerns over the food and Drug Administrations food recall process. Disease outbreaks from tainted food are an Ongoing Public Health challenge. The centers for Disease Control estimates that each year one in six americans, 48 Million People get sick from food borne illnesses, and 128,000 are hospitalized and 3,000 die. The number of multistate food illness outbreaks is increasing, affecting greater numbers of americans and the number of Vulnerable People over and immune compromise individuals is growing. The threat of food borne illness persi persist even though weve gotten better at investigating outbreaks and through the implementation of the hazard analysis and critical control point rules over the last two decades, cdc trend data indicates major reductions in the incidents of food borne disease, yet the problem remains significant. When contaminated food reaches store shelves, the fda i
It comes from the same route as democracy and autocracy is about a hook about the study of power. This is a study of Donald Trumps power how do you get it how do you obtain it and how does he get away with it . Its a system of enabling system between trump and congress and a system between the media that enabled him to create an audience and a system that involves the republican donor elite in the Traditional Republican Party and above all him and the core group of his voters within the Republican Party who enabled him to win the republican nomination. How do you respond to president comes fbi appointee saying that the memo he has read should be released could pose a grave danger to the country . Let me step back for a second. First of all let me tell you what this memo is and what this memo is not. What this memo is congress doing its job in conducting legitimate oversight over a unique law, fisa and if mistakes are made and individuals did something wrong than it is our job as the br