Justice sotomayor spoke to law students at stanford university. See her remarks tonight on cspan. Consumer of america later, experts on food policy priorities of the Trump Administrations. Good morning. Good morning. Welcome. My name is thomas today is the second day of the jewish pass over holiday. I would like to say happy pass over. Many of you know Consumer Federation of america is an association of 300 profit organizations. We expand our research and advocacies. We focus on a lot of Consumer Protection topics but particularly relevant to this conference, we do food safety and nutrition and agriculture policies. So this Conference Provides an opportunity to hear from some of the key policiymakers and playes and opportunity to explore policies from a diverse range of perspective. I hope that you will agree that we have a Great Program for this years conference and that program reflects the work of our Advisory Committee. I dont have the packet with me but if you look of our packet y
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Important cause and also those who do not attend the rallies but also have their way of enter taining the status quo. This is an important piece of legislation that we are passing. This is a great day for all of us and for all the warriors that are out there that continue to lift the immigrant voice and give voice inform a cause that sometimes has gone unacknowledged and unvalidated. Today is an in incredibly victorious day. We are going to claim victory on this. We are going to work to get this passed. I want to say hello, thank you, waned need you and applaud you and thank you for being at the table. [ applause ] we have two other colleagues who would like to say a few words. Mr. Campos. Thank you mr. President. I will be brief. I think that what this Defense Committee has been about goes to the heart of who we are as a country. We are a country of immigrant and by fighting to protect the rights of immigrants who often are a group that is marginalized and you are doing so at a time w
Get this passed. I want to say hello, thank you, waned need you and applaud you and thank you for being at the table. [ applause ] we have two other colleagues who would like to say a few words. Mr. Campos. Thank you mr. President. I will be brief. I think that what this Defense Committee has been about goes to the heart of who we are as a country. We are a country of immigrant and by fighting to protect the rights of immigrants who often are a group that is marginalized and you are doing so at a time when its unpopular to do so whether its the undocumented youth policy that we worked on and to new phase to fight for civil rights that supervisor avalos is sphere heading and to see the cross collaboration and the fact that its not just the Defense Committee, but the Defense Committee working with Domestic Violence Community Working and working with other communities is a testament to how great and powerful this movement is for civil rights is in the city and county of San Francisco. Tha
Back there and a special thanks to Catherine Day to kath dodd who has been instrumental in our Health Care System and one of the most effectual leaders in our city departments of driving a real meaningful change in terms of our Health Service rates for our current and retired members. Catherine has been on medical leave for a number of months now. Very pleased to hear that things are going well. Catherine we missed you so much at the Service Board. I want to thank you for being here today. I know its such an important matter for you and i want to thank you for all of your work on this matter and also to give you the opportunity to talk. I know that you have been watching by your bedside over time as this dialogue has happened over the past few weeks. I want to give you an opportunity to speak about it. I know there has been confusion and different statements about what would happen if we didnt pass these rate increases. I think it would be great to give you the at some point to speak a