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
Justice sotomayor spoke to law students at stanford university. See her remarks tonight on cspan. Consumer of america later, experts on food policy priorities of the Trump Administrations. Good morning. Good morning. Welcome. My name is thomas today is the second day of the jewish pass over holiday. I would like to say happy pass over. Many of you know Consumer Federation of america is an association of 300 profit organizations. We expand our research and advocacies. We focus on a lot of Consumer Protection topics but particularly relevant to this conference, we do food safety and nutrition and agriculture policies. So this Conference Provides an opportunity to hear from some of the key policiymakers and playes and opportunity to explore policies from a diverse range of perspective. I hope that you will agree that we have a Great Program for this years conference and that program reflects the work of our Advisory Committee. I dont have the packet with me but if you look of our packet y
Today is looking better. It is full on summertime heat but keep things nice and dry. The humidity slightly lower today. It is still humid out there, but anything is better than it has been. It does stay hot. We are in a hot weather pattern next few days. We need air conditioning cranking once again. Yesterday we hit mid 90s. Today should be in the low 90s this afternoon. Outside right now were looking at cloud cover, last day in the clouds that will be moving off shore after the Morning Hours. We will go pretty much full sunshine a few afternoon cloud start to develop later on. Current temperature 73 in philadelphia. West wind at 5 miles an hour and there you go all of the rain, from those showers and storms last night has exited the region. We will keep things nice and dry, thick cloud cover the from the city on south and east, at the shore points, the beaches, no worries, you well get the sunshine and turnout to be a nice beach day. 68 degrees in allentown. Seventythree in philadelph
Failed coup in turkey speaks from his home in the poconos and cbs3 is the only local station to go inside his compound for the interview. It is sunday, july 17th, good morning to you im rahel solomon. We are in the thick of it, it is midjuly. It is certainly feeling like summer. Lets turn it over to Justin Drabick who is talking about a slight drop this week. Humidity drops today, not a bad start to the day but we will keep 90s going, and it gets hotter tomorrow but there is relife ahead, something go to look forward to. People were complaining about the cold. Im with you. You have to deal witt. July, summertime but we will keep things dry, and we will start yesterday with big time showers and storms across Central New Jersey and southern new jersey. But, now were dealing with full sunshine, outside, right now philadelphia woke up to some clouds. The last of the cloud deck moving to the south but now full sun in the city, temperatures will respond nicely to the sunshine, up to 76, ligh
Administration as it relates to establishing diplomatic relations. One who someone who has visited cuba, who has the respect of the cuban people, but also has the respect of our own administration, and someone who continues to plug away each and every day for normal relations with cuba and ending the embargo. Congressman sam farr. Mr. Farr thank you very much, my Dear Colleague from california, and our distinguished member of congress, barbara lee. I dont think any other member who has made more trips of anden more people and influenced and taken more people and influenced this change in policy in the United States congress than barbara lee. I had the pleasure of traveling to exaw about a on six different cuba on six different Mission Trips and each one of them has been very interesting. One with my constituents in santa cruz, california, who have a sister relationship, sister city relationship with an area in cuba. It looks much like the california coast line, very interesting area, t