Please join me for a flying dog beer. I announcer cspans washington journal, live every day with news and policy issues that impact you. Georgetown associate law professor will join us to tolain his path from prison georgetown law and his fight for prison reform. Been talking about the real reason why nfl players neil during the National Anthem to policewareness about brutality. Join the discussion. Closure eyes for a moment. Stretch. Closure eyes. I see you. Trust me. Empathy. I want you to stretch your imagination. [crushing, crashing] thats a fast it happens. In a blink. No warning. A paralyzed veteran talks about his own accident. I am talking about what i see from a patient perspective, policy the United States continues to be the world leader in providing more than a third of all emergency food aid. Ver 2 million annually sadly, despite our generosity, there are shortfalls. A little over half of our food aid is provided through the farm bill. These restrictions result in spending
Challenge. Next years farm bill deliberations, we have an opportunity to do more with out having to spend your money. Little over half of our food aid is provided through the farm bill in our food for Peace Program. The farm bill requires aid to be sourced almost entirely from u. S. Farmers. Half of which must be shipped on u. S. Flagged vessels according to the rules. These restrictions result in spending as little as 35 35 40 cents on the dollar on food. Let me say this one more time. Because of these ridiculous requirements, only 35 or 40 cents of each dollar is actually used to provide food to people who are starving. If we relax the preference to meet the needs overseas, the cost would drop dramatically. U. S. Farmers would still play a vital role in the program and we would free up over 300 million in taxes to be used to feed up to nine and half million more starving people each year. One of the major obstacles to modernizing food for peace are those who continue to support and p
Its merely an Administrative Task they lost track of. That doesnt sound like a very credible explanation either, does it . I fear theyre trying to come wake up some way to remand it and give an opening for the pto or give time for the government to renarrow the law and rejustify the results. That would be all i would have to say about the redskins case. It is literally impossible to distinguish from the tam case other than the quality of Workplace Environment and quality accommodation. Theres much to be encouraged about the tam case applying to things like redskins and campus speech and a good marker for hate speech. Just because youre offended doesnt mean you cant ban it. I worry about the hostile environment competing line of cases and where that would go. I guess ill stop there and let you guys have a chance for questions. Theres a lot more i can say about government speech but if anyone cares we will talk about it in the questions. Questions . Two questions although i dont want to
To 162 more per metric ton than foreign flag carriers for usda programs. If u. S. Flag carriers had matched the average foreign flag rate in each these years, we would have spent 23. 8 mmm less for shipping. And we did a little back of the envelope map and we think that comes out to about 500,000 in foodd theyd we could have helped. Extra money spent on shipping is money not spent feeding hungry people. Im not qualified to judge whether the cargo preference requirement achieves the necessary National Security objective of maintaining sea lift with the goal tied to that capacity. However, we at cathly Relief Services deeply appreciate the service and sacrifice of mariners who have helped deliver food aid for the last 60 years. We welcome their contribution that did do not diminish the programs ability. Surely there are other ways of supporting the mariners and maintaining our nations sea lift capacity without penal lizing vulnerable and hungry people. Short of eliminating the cargo pref
4th and 5th. Booktv. Org. Now, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee takes a look at the u. S. Agency for International Development, food for Peace Program and other ways to district food aid more effectively around the world. The witnesses including the acting director of the food for peace office and an official from the Government Accountability office. This hearing is 90 minutes. Our Relations Committee will come to order. We are currently facing an historic humanitarian crisis with over 800 Million People worldwide who are in need of food aid. The United States continues to be the world leader in providing over a third of all emergency food aid, over 2 billion annually. Despite our shortfall there are other donor organizations not meeting the challenge. In next years farm bill operations we want to do more without spending more money. Over half of our food aid is provided through the farm bill with the u. S. Cargo and preference requirements. The farm bill requires aid to be sour