President obama reset the goal for that initiative at the African Leadership summit. Those resources will help bring tens of billions of dollars in private investment to the african power sector. This budget request includes 1. 02 billion devoted to the feed the future initiative. The state aid managed portion of that will be 970 million. In addition to bringing more than 70 companies to coinvest with us in countries around the world this program has directly helped more than 7 million farm households move out of poverty and improve nutrition for more than 12 million children, who otherwise would go hungry, not by giving out food but by helping their families stand on their own two feet. Since 2014, the president s budget has ensure that we meet more hungry people at their hour of need. Look forward to working with congress to get that done on a bipartisan basis this year. In doing so, we hope to renew the unique policy partnership between the Food Producers shippers humanitarians, and
For being here. It seems like a week or two when you think back on how compresed it has been. But a lot of good work came from it. I want to thank those that testified today and those that testified before you, submitted comments and participated in the audience. It has been helpful in us framing what will be the final recommendations we present to the president next week. I am not going to go anything about how it will happen. Ron did a good job of that. Soon you will be introduced to the other taskforce members. I am chuck ramsey and i am a cochair along with Lori Robinson and i think we have made a good team over the past few months. I am currently the police chief in philadelphia. Seven years i have served in that capacity. Prior to that where was the police chief in washington for almost nine. I started in chicago in 1968. I have been around for a while and seen a lot of changing in policing over the years. Very dynamic profession and this is a period of time when we have challeng
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Shooting of missouri teenager michael brown. Members are examining ways to improve relationships between Law Enforcement and the communities they serve. They are expected to give their recommendations to president obama the summer. This is to an half hours. Were going to get started. If you have a cell phone please turn it off for putting on to vibrate. Good morning welcome to the president s task force on 21st Century Policing. Today we have a distinguished and final panel all bills were outstanding but we save the best for last there will be the to the cochairs to explain the purpose of the panel and the thought process while we will close it out this way. And as you know, december 1st 2014 president obama announced his intent to create a president s task force with 21st Century Policing to deal with the issue of trust between police and many communities in the task force will be led by two distinguished cochairs was also a former assistant attorney general and to her left charros ra
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