Test defund, captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2008 they decided together they would stay at home. There wasnt a precedent for a first lady and the first the second first lady, the Vice President s wife, to be living with the men. It was by choice. Martha did it. But abigail had the liberty to choose to go home and she did for the next six years. We learned the city of philadelphia was decimated at the start of the second washington term by yellow fever. Did she have any illness related to that . No. What was her illness . Its very hard to tell all these years later. She describes symptoms, but its hard to put a name on the symptoms. Rum tism. She did have rum tism. Beyond that the symptoms are hard to diagnose. There was no role model for being the second lady at the time, but jean spear asked, did the newspapers of that time mention abigail . Im not sure about that. They certainly mentioned john from time to time, although was she a National Figure at that point . No.
[inaudible conversations] good morning, everyone and welcome back as we return from Holiday Season to continue our work and Economic Opportunity subcommittee. Without objection the chair is authorized to callec for recesst any time. Todays hearing is entitled redoing the availability of resources to address veteran hunger. Im hopeful we can shed some light on a very important issue for veterans around the country. This hearing will examine department of Veterans Affairs and department of Agriculture Programs identify Food Insecurity among nearly 20 million veterans and provide nutrition assistance for those in need. Specifically, today through aly focus on how veterans access nutrition resourceson come out recent policy changes have impacted the availability of resources, and how congress can more effectively support public and nonpublic agencies that seek to end veteran hunger, so critically important. This continues the subcommittees efforts to get economic factors that contribute to
Work in the Economic Opportunity subcommittee. Without objection the chair is authorized to calle for recess at any time. Todays hearing is entitled redoing the availability of resources to address veteran hunger. Im hopeful we can shed some light on a very important issue for veterans around the country. This hearing will examine department of Veterans Affairs and department of Agriculture Programs identify Food Insecurity among nearly 20 million veterans and provide nutrition assistance for those in need. Specifically, today through aly focus on how veterans access nutrition resources come out recent policy changes have impacted the availability of resources, and how congress can more effectively support public and nonpublic agencies that seek to end veteran hunger, so critically important. This continues the subcommittees efforts to get economic factors that contribute to veteran suicide which we note include homelessness and hunger. Our subcommittee works in a bipartisan way to str
Entitled redoing the availability of resources to address veteran hunger. Im hopeful we can shed some light on a very important issue for veterans around the country. This hearing will examine department of Veterans Affairs and department of Agriculture Programs identify Food Insecurity among nearly 20 million veterans and provide nutrition assistance for those in need. Specifically, today through aly focus on how veterans access nutrition resources come out recent policy changes have impacted the availability of resources, and how congress can more effectively support public and nonpublic agencies that seek to end veteran hunger, so critically important. This continues the subcommittees efforts to get economic factors that contribute to veteran suicide which we note include homelessness and hunger. Our subcommittee works in a bipartisan way to strengthen education and job Training Programs so veterans can get a good job but, unfortunately, thats not always the outcome. Sometimes joble
Good morning, everyone and welcome back as we returned from th good morning Everyone Welcome back as we return from Holiday Season to continue ournu workno in the Economic Opportunities subcommittee without objection the chair is authorized to call for recess at anyny time todays hearing is called reviewing the resources to address veteran hunger. Im hopeful we can shed some light on an important issue for veterans around the country. This hearing will discuss department of Agriculture Programs to identify Food Insecurity among nearly 20 million veterans to provide nutrition assistance to those in need. Specifically todays hearing will focus on how veterans access nutrition resources and recent policy changes have impacted the availability of resources and how congress can more effectivelyly support public and nonpublic agencies seeking to end veteran hunger this continues the subcommittees efforts to review economic factors that contribute to suicide which we now include homelessness