Down to the plains from the top of the mountain inspired the poetry and inspired the images that are captured in that poetry of the United States. Watch all of our events from Colorado Springs throughout the andon cspan 2s book tv, sunday on American History tv on cspan 3. Formeror agricultural secretary dan glickman discusses Food Security. Topics include past agriculture issues and the types of action that could be taken in future to improve food supply, access, and sanitation. From the Johns Hopkins school of advanced international studies, this is a little more than an hour. Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. Im bob thompson, visiting scholar here working to develop a problem in agriculture and a program in agriculture and Food Security. Teaching a couple courses in that area. Im delighted that in continuing our seminar in International Agriculture topics that today we have former secretary of agriculture dan glickman here to talk about Food Security and government dysfunction. Ca
Way. Whereas the house of representatives may have about 40 or 50 members that are predominantly Food Production represents Food Production districts. Every United States senator represents at least some Food Production. That includes from the smallest states of rhode island and delaware to, of course, the largest states. And historically, those interests were dominated from people by the midwest and the heartland states. So illinois, indiana, missouri, my own state of kansas. And the midwest, up through the dakotas. And states in the south where you had members of congress and especially members of the United States who were elected forever. They accumulated great amounts of power, and they were able to influence the political process rather significantly so the states of mississippi, which was one state that had accumulated a large amount of power over the years. But all of the southern states, georgia, south carolina, north carolina, called the southern crops had very, very powerful
Use commission so when the legislation is retrod theyll be able to see all the amendments weve made. Light i want to reiterate were you know committed to quality care and seeking new ways to collaborate with other agencies the Mayors Office anti Human Trafficking and other calculation go ive spoken about the lean training we were trying to optimize our training in the system programming and continually working to providing links to services to provide prevention programs well monitor the implementation to make sure that is successful and well chief better compliance last but not least and a lot of outreach to the businesses around the legislation once adapted that concludes my presentation. And we have two invited speakers that are going to talk on behalf of the legislation first from commissioner chans shes going to speak about the outreach process and after that will im going to introduce another colleague that is the director of policy from the dependent on the state of women and ta
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Country. Thats not all nature in the u. S. But thats true in western europe and the u. S. And india and i was just in japan and is true in in japan. Interest in food disproportionally more powerful than the numbers are an especially when you consider the number veaux in rural settings. In the u. S. This disproportionate power, notice im not saying excessive power. I say disproportionate power is baked into our constitution from the fact that each state has two senators. Whether its wyoming with 700,000 people or california with over 50 Million People they are each represented by the exact same number of people in our government. The senate is the great protector of agriculture and it has been since the beginning of time and still remains that way whereas the house of representatives may have 40 or 50 members that are predominantly Food Production districts. Every United States senator represents at least some Food Production and that includes the smaller states like rhode island and de