Thanks to low property tax percentages. How is there not an Emergency Fund for Something Like this to fix . Well, i mean, its a fairly affluent community the revenue we receive is not enough overall. Reporter so moraga has asked the governor to declare a state of emergency so that the state can pay for repairs. While the repair tab gets passed around, the sinkhole sits and waits. That means the businesses around there are, too. We are getting no new customers. Usually of this time springtime, we probably would be doing at least 30 or 40 more with the new clientele. All we have is regulars coming in because they know were here and no parking and no walkins. Reporter so the next steps at least for solving this sinkhole are as follows. First, they have to figure out what happened and why. They are doing a study to figure that out right now. Then once they know what the problem is, they have to figure out how to fix it. All of that information including the potential solutions and the pric
Thats not true. Folks can sell outside of school, which is what these candy deals are. Outside of school theres no prohibition. Times we have that. I dont think thats the they may be mistaken. Thank you for being with us today. Thank you both for your respective work on committee report. I know that this is no simple undertaking. I appreciate the fact that it takes and requires months and months of scientific analysis and consideration of thousand of stake holder comments and thoughtful collaboration of agency staff and i want to say that i appreciate the process of the Advisory Committee went through. Its a solid process. Many opportunities for the public to weigh in. To put this in perspective here, my colleagues understand that in this country today, one is school age children, more than one and three American Adults suffers from cardiovascular disease and diabetes, clearly, we can do better. Thats what we are all talking about here. This is an attempt for us to get it better, and i
Electio elections. Later treasury secretary jack lou on the upcoming debt ceiling debate. Every five years, the departments of agriculture and health and Human Services issue dietary guidelines and nutritional information to the public. Next the House Agriculture Committee hears from tom vilsack and Silvia Burwell about the process. This is two and a half hours. Good morning. Lets go ahead and get started. Trent, will you open us with a prayer please . Dear heavenly father, we ask that you bless this committee. We ask that you bless this government. We ask that you bless all those who lead this nation. Amen. This Meeting Committee of agriculture regarding the development of the 2015 dietary guidelines for american will come to order. I want to thank our witnesses for being here this morning. It is no small feat to get two of the secretaries of two of the most important agencies in government to sit at the same table at the same time, so i thank you secretary vilsack, secretary burwell,
To the act the dga shall contain guidelines for the general public, shall be based on the preponderance at the time the report is prepared and promoted by each agency carrying out food or nutritional program. A sound Development Process is important because it is extremely difficult to reverse or change Public Policy once implemented without causing consumer confusion. At a time when consumers are already subjected to conflicting and often contradictory health information, staying within scope of the intent of the law by providing with sciencebased information is more likely to contribute to improve Public Health outcomes. The process of the 2015 gga began in 2012 when secretary vilsack and secretary burwells predecessor secretary sibilius created the committee. Though its not specifically authorized all must be chartered under the federal Advisory Committee act that requires it be accessible by the public and stoeb operating, overseeing and terminating committees. This makes the Commi
Secretary vilsack and i agree we thought that was an important thing to do. Thats the part of the process in terms of public input. I think the question here is that, one, did they follow the guidelines and what steps were taken to make sure the committee followed the law and from an ethical standpoint is once youve served as your capacity of that Advisory Committee and major recommendations, what is your responsibility in moving forward . And one of the things we dont want is that these advisory turn this into some kind of a profitable situation on their behalf because of their participation on that Advisory Committee. Be regard to these these are voluntary nonpaid. They have to file Financial Disclosures on an annual basis as they go through this process so those are things we want to protect against. With regard to the specific question of a press briefing or some kind of briefing, i apologize, not familiar with that. As i said, we have focused on the Public Comments and the steps a