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
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
29th deal was a test just like the agreed framework and just like the september 19 statement. These three tests may have been different in terms of the speed with which they were failed, and the significance of this action so soon in the air of north koreas new leadership in terms of the federal 29th understanding was not particularly encouraging as prospects for authentic and credible negotiations. Most importantly, for us federal 229th demonstrate north korea was not yet prepared to engage in negotiations with the sickness of purpose necessary to ensure that negotiations would result in concrete denuclearization process. So that was the 29th, 2012. And as you know, little seasons in seoul, washington and beijing were looming. And as north korea watched the elections and Political Activities in those three capitals, it began for another series of actions which would commence in december with another launch, followed with a nuclear test the next year, 2013, followed by period of intens
Thank you all for coming. This has been a memorable first luncheon for me and i hope you will come back for many more, starting with next monday. We are adjourned. [applause] Energy Secretary announcing today at lunch and the approval by the Energy Department of a 6. 5 Million Dollars federal Loan Guarantee for the First Nuclear power plant built from scratch in this country in more than three decades. The secretary tomorrow travels to georgia to visit the construction site of that 14 billion Nuclear Power Plant Construction facility. If you missed any of todays speech, you can always go online. T www. Cspan. Org we take you next to the Brookings Institution in washington where we will hear from the director of the National Institute of standards and technology on his agencys release of the president s Cyber Security framework. It lies out guidelines for the sectors come including medication and energy providers. It should get underway momentarily cspan. It lays out guidelines for vari