Agriculture of nutrition and forestry committee. During the hearing, the secretary talked about childhood hunger, foreign Land Ownership and crop assurance. N and ownership. N Land Ownership. Called a meeting to order of t call the meeting to order of the Agriculture Committee. Welcome everyone this afternoon. I hope you voted already. There are two votes, a vote now and i informed before we would be coming in at the back end of the second boat. Welcome. We are so glad that you are here today. I want to mention two of our colleagues, senator of which are in senator smith from minnesota for a funeral and not able to be with us. We wanted to submit information for the record and just wanted to indicate they are sorry they could not be here with you today. Very sad, very important funeral related to officers in minnesota. So they are not with us today. Your leadership is essential to our shared goal of keeping farmers farming, families fed and world communities strong. I share the concern
[inaudible] [inaudible] speemac, a look at Nuclear Energy innovation, safety, and safety, and modernization proposals. Then agriculture secretary, tom bill sack is part of a discussion on hunger and Food Assistance program. Later, conversation with marilyn senator ben cardin. Cspans washington journal, live every day with news and policy issues that impact you. Coming up on friday morning jeff adelstein, politics reporter for the new orleans advocate will join us by phone to discuss the debate over removal of confederate monuments in new orleans. The mayor has backed the City Councils effort to remove number of monuments on public land. However, the city remains divided on the issue. Hannah smith, senior counsel will be on to talk about the recently argued case. The case deals with religious liberty and the Affordable Care act contraceptive mandate. Chris, author of the book of grunge in government, lets fix a broken democracy joins us for a discussion. Be sure to watch washingtons csp
That we dont need these extra levels of production. Our concern is that assertion is not always on a full enough audience evidence and experimental data to justify making those decisions so the net reduction, so there could be a net reduction in safety if exemptions and other relaxations in safety procedures are granted based on our presumption that a new reactors safer without a full examination. So mr. Chairman the bill as a distracted is an assumption that there are inherent safety features built into advanced design reactors that make it safer automatically. Thats a nice assumption to make and its a nice assertion to make but thats going to be tested. We have to make sure that anyone additional potentially successful safety feature interacts with the totality of the rest of the Nuclear Power plants in terms of assuming the plant is safe. We dont know that. Its an assumption built into the language of the bill so this just goes to the question and it is an 8020 question. What are th
Literature, language, politics and history. Book tv will be covering that event. It begins at noon eastern time. Afterwards well have a live nationwide callin with shakespeare scholars so you can join in the conversation as well. Henry folger was the president of the Standard Oil Company and a shakespeare buff so he and his wife spent many years and many dollars collecting shakespeare artifacts, documents, memorabilia. Its the Worlds Largest collection of shacks peerrelated documents. So join us on saturday, april 23. Well be live beginning at noon from the Folger Library for 400 years of shakespeare on book tv. Now, agriculture secretary tom vilsack, he sits down with us to talk about the issue of hunger and Food Insecurity that affects Many American families. Former Iowa Governor discusses the impact of hunger, child nutrition and the challenges facing rural communities. From the brookings institute, this is about an hour and 20 minutes. Good morning. Im bob ruben and my sole assignm
Weekends and in the summer, but limited resources mean we cannot provide a backpack to every kid who needs one. We also looked into mobile summer feeding programs but our Rural Communities are so small and far apart the time requirement of having a kid eat a full meal before going to the next location thats required is cost prohibitive. Waiving it to allow Program Models in hard to reach models will address these barriers and significantly expand the number of children we reach. Finally, the summer ebt demonstration demonstration projects provide another model. This model families of children receiving free or reduced Price School Meals are giving an ebt card to purchase food at Retail Stores in the summer. We would like to see this expanded in communities that have high need and are difficult to reach. I would like to close by saying im convinced that child hunger is a solvable problem. Its going to require collaboration between government, business and nonprofit stakeholders and were