Careening in this room for us and i know that the congresswoman couldnt be here today, i want to thank her for being a true champion for Public Health. Also want to thank the American Academy of pediatrics for being such a great partner to us as we start this event. So, Big Cities Health Coalition was founded i was a former leaders for Health Departments to Exchange Strategies and address issues to promote and protect the health and safety of the residents. There we have of pediatrics will do a Measles Outbreak one oh one and why immunization is so important. The American Academy of pediatrics is a nonprofit professional organization with more than 67000 pediatricians we are dedicated to the health and safety and wellbeing of children and adolescents and young adults we publish recommended elimination schedules with the cdc American Academy physicians and gynecologist so lets go back to the history of measles in 1953 it was licensed in a 1968 the vaccine began to be over the country it
Thank you for coming. The executive director of the bigcity Health Coalition want to say a special thank you to Representative Office for securing the space for us and while i know the congresswoman could not be here today i want to thank her for being a true champion for Public Health also the American Academy of pediatrics for being such a great partner as we planned this event. The Health Coalition started in 2002 is a forum for leaders of the largest metropolitan Health Department for strategies to jointly address issues to promote and protect the health and safety of the residents we have those jurisdictions whose Health Department serves nearly 62 million or one out of five americans well have two jurisdictions here today. You have bios in front of you i will not take up time i want to introduce the panel that i will turn it over to them. The order in which they are presenting doctor kraft is the immediate precedent of aat the commissioner of health in new york city the chief med
Tong forward its important get the laws changed so we do not have a report that just sits on the shelf is we cannot afford to have this kind of tragedy. Be of our work will important. I turn back and thank the chair. Let me close by thanking the officers. You are true heroes to me and this committee. Thank you for my Watertown Police patch. I will wear this very pro next, the house debates the federal budget. Then this weeks Prime Ministers questions from the british house of commons. Followed by a house hearing on the oneyear anniversary of the bombings. Athon the next on washington journal, a look at the differences between the budgets released by House Democrats and Budget Committee chairman paul ryan. Our guest is congressman john of kentucky, a member of the Budget Committee. Representative aaron schock of illinois, a member of of the ways and Means Committee, will theere to talk about prospects for tax reform in congress. Washington journal is live starting at 7 00 a. M. Eastern,
And it should not be the facts of 2014. It should not be the way things are. You you know, theres been a lot of discussion around the opportunities for women and obviously weve grown you cant see 20 women in the United States senate and not think that were making some progress. But we have to think not only about those women in professional occupations but those women who are our school cooks and our janitors, like my mother, those women who are working every day at the diner to put food on on the table to to put food on their familys table and food on the table of their patrons. And so when were talking about this i also talk about the need for an increase in minimum wage, which i know is is a topic for further discussion on the floor. But i like to remind my fellow senators that the current minimum wage which as we all know overrepresented by women the number of people earning minimum wage, overrepresented by women is less than 9 is less than 9 of a congressional salary. And we have
On the next washington journal a report showing that the number of stayathome mothers is on the rise here in than a Washington Post reporter looks at the challenges facing the next secretary of health and human services. Then a discussion about the u. S. s contribution to the u. N. Peacekeeping operations. You can join the conversation on facebook and twitter. Washington journal live at 7 00 a. M. Eastern. Reddish Prime Minister David Cameron answered questions wednesday about the resignation of the culture secretary arena miller. She resigned over allegations of excessive spending and expenses. Minister cameron believes that she should have been able to apologize and carry on with her job. This is just over 30 minutes. Off the ground. Order. Questions to the Prime Minister. Number one, mr. Speaker,. Prime minister. Thank you, mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, this morning i had meetings with ministerial colleagues and others, and in addition to my duties in this house, i shall have further su