Priority and should be funded and which has a lower priority and should not be funded in the age of a 19 trillion deficit. Right. Now, could you please tell us why planned parenthood needs to get over half a billion dollars of federal funding every year when there are other pressing needs such as feeding hungry children that maybe we should put that money into . Lets be clear that planned parenthood is not getting any federal funding for abortions. Well, money is fungible, miss smith. You and i know that money is fungible so i dont believe that true. The question is, you know, whether congress should appropriate another half billion dollars plus to planned parenthood when we could be spending that money on feeding hungry children. This is a question of priorities. Id like to know what your priority is planned parenthood or feeding hungry children. My priority i think i think funding planned parenthood and the services it provides is equal to feeding children because what planned parent
Another Congress Making action is the congressional youth caucus, the chairs works to promote respect, health, safety, and fun, and save activity among children and players. This is really partnership between educators, schools, parents, coaches, and student athletes. So what is this caucus doing around the issue of concussion . We are finding out in the new year that the caucus plans to meet and continue discussions on youth sports injury as well. Finally, i would like to go to the statehouse. In this case richman, the state level, just on the 15th of december last year, the Virginia Commission on youth conducted a study providing a study providing a dozen recommendations to the governor, and the Virginia Department of education. Some of them centered on concussions. The first of which is requesting the department of health and the department of education Work Together to assess the capability of doing training on updating concussion guidelines and awareness. They previously conducted
Have been a member of the National Press club for 25 years. I tweet, so you will see a lot of tweets, d. C. \ \ dcconcussions you will find additional under our National Press club site. Various press releases have been put on the wire this morning including Health Research on the way here. Washingtons department of health provided a grant to childrens medical medstar, and the agency first didnt Health Research, offering their Technology Platform to collect data and information from parents, teachers, and coaches, and provide information for done diagnostic questions to help student athletes. Monitoringefer to a and Prevention Program implemented on the playground of the d. C. Parks and rec department. The will smith movie, returnedon, has attention to the issue of football and concussions. An item we just saw on the Cable Network about a sports injury, a young at wheat, the student had , it was found. It is not just nfl players. The movie noted the first autopsy, which helps identify,
Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the National Press clubs Morning Newsmaker Program here in washington, d. C. Todays topic is preventing youth sports concussion and what washington, d. C. , is doing about it. One of the first major metro areas in the region to provide a grant for research, education and monitoring of concussions in youth sports. And were also here to talk about other youth sports injury. This newsmaker panel will offer an examination of data, trends and concussion research, state policies and whether or not the u. S. Department of education should adopt federal compliance mandates. Every state in the union has a concussionrelated law on the books and a sports and youth Injury Program regulation on the books. Enforcement is the issue, and compliance is the issue, and thats what the doctors here this morning and the sports data person is going to be talking to us about. My name is mike smith, and i serve on the National Press Club Newsmaker committee, and the comm
Our first reaction is to express grief and condolences to the families involved. I noticed when the market was down not that much at all. Amazing how a plane crash a zillion miles away creates a buying opportunity. It was inconsistent with how the market works. Its too rash and glib. I expected the market to be down sharply this very morning because last night president obama announced his tougher sanctions against russia for meddling in ukraine. The s p futures were down big this early morning. Ahead of the opening. That seemed reasonable because of the new level of uncertainty. Things were ratcheted up. When the averages initially failed to get hammered because there was so much positive news flow, i was surprised. Russia, not as important as china, obviously, can still impact the stock market for more than 24 hours as we see things play out. In other words, we whistled past a piece of negative geopolitical news as though it were totally isolated and didnt mean that at all. When we g