The National Governors association met this past weekend in washington d. C. For its annual winter meeting and focused on ways to combat childhood hunger and current initiatives at the state and local levels that have been successful atrophiedi feeding c at school. This is about an hour and a half. Good morning, everyone. Good morning, and i think we should get started. Its another important big day here at the nga and we have a lot of good work to do. Im dorothy mcauliffe, first lady of virginia and chair of the nga spouses leadership committee. And its my honor and great pleasure to welcome you all to this very special winter meeting, joint session for governors and for spouses. Today were talking about ending child hunger, improving lives and investing in americas future. I want to thank all the governors who are here this morning and their spouses and all the many Partner Organizations who are in attendance this morning. I will say its my understanding its been several years since
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It will be available through the providers and distributed to a broader set of people, not everybody is eligible and if you are eligible, many people are not enrolled and so we dont want that to be a barrier and we could use the existing networks, such as Health Providers and School Counselors and certainly or other agencies like dos and hsa, we want to expand this beyond the farmers, and beyond Farmers Market as much as that provides, an accident source of food in our city. But we want to include the retail as well. We then drive the activity into the community and it benefits all, creating it. 19,000 do not have kitchens and which means that these people have no ability, relatively to little or no ability to actually store the food in the fridge and prepare the food in any way, except in a hot plate or a mike wave and that limits the option to prepare the food and they are certainly more expensive or putting more increased demand on the dining room. And if the people have the kitchen
Start on an issue that all of us i think are coming together on, no matter what party were in, and thats whats been happening to our military families. On sunday, as noted by the senator from kansas a few moments ago, Sergeant Patrick hawkins from carlisle, pennsylvania, was killed in action in afghanistan when his unit was attacked with an i. E. D. He was moving to the aid of a wounded range whefers killed. Due to the shutdown, Sergeant Hawkins family cannot receive the death benefit freu providedo soldiers to cover the funeral and burial expenses. Today im joining theest of a number of im joining the effort after number of senators in a letter to senator hagel to provide the death benefit to the family of Sergeant Hawkins and other families. I no he that the president is working on this issue, is working with the office of mangtsd and budget in the Defense Department on a solution to this problem. Mr. President , ill move to the question of where we are now. This is a shutdown brough