Richardson talks about navel operation answers maritime security. Next, agriculture secretary tom vilsack talks about the biobased industry and its impact on the economy and talks about how the industry creating jobs for Rural America. From the National Press club, this is an hour. [ applause ] tom vilsack, a pittsburgh native and former governor of iowa is the only original member of president Barack Obamas cabinet still serving in the administration and he hasnt been quiet about food or politics. Vilsack recently ran for the white house in the 2008 president ial race and was considered by Hillary Clinton as a potential running mate during election cycle. He endorsed clinton in 2008 and 2016. Campaigning for her in the crucial state of iowa. Earlier this year, appearing on nbcs meet the press, comparing donald trump to bern made off. At the usda, secretary vilsack has a vast portfolio from food safety and secure it to Healthy School meal coordination to coordinate the white house effo
Three victims frr the bay area. They were friends. The young men were found stabbed inside of the apartment where james and david lived with the gunman. Abc7 News Reporter live in isla vista now. Mary . Reporter you can see students here filing into the stadium behind me and are about to host a Memorial Service to honor those who died the Community Heading down the long road to recovery. 19yearold veronica wiess was a College Freshman with dreams of a career in finance. Dreams denied when she was shot and killed by a gunman on a shooting spree. Her father, an abc employee told abc radio he feels sadness not anger. The world lost great kids. There were red flags about the gunman that killed six and wounded 13. A murder plot detailed in his chilling 137 page manifesto. He e mailed the horrific plan in the minutes before he opened fire. But it was too late for them to save the victims. The rampage began in rodgers apartment. Police discovered stabbed to death his two roommates and a visit
Left a wrong impression when i was talking with the secretary saying if you were given the same report that that probably would have solved everything. We still have big concerns about the five, and i didnt mention that when we were briefed in november of 2011 and january of 2012 that there was real concerns of members of congress that those five would be released. In fact, there was real opposition to it, and thats why were very concerned that we werent told if we reenter those negotiations, you would be told and then we werent, so those are things that we really need to have clarified and worked through. Mr. Thornberry. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Mr. Secretary, id like to begin with a brief additional observation on the notification issue. For the past several years, this committee has worked on a bipartisan basis to establish an oversight structure for cyberoperations, for terrorism operations and for sensitive military operations. And an oversight structure that allows the department
ALBANY, N.Y. State Sen Michelle Hinchey led a rally at the state Capitol on Monday calling for full funding of an expansion of the state’s Healthy School Meal program to provide free breakfast and lunch to all K-12 students in the state. Hinchey’s office said she was joined by 285 advocates from the Healthy […]