Intellectual property, this is about two hours. Come to order. Well im disappointed we cant all be together in person today, im grateful to the chairman graham, and our clerk for facilitating this through web apps. I want to be clear that this subCommittee Hearing is not distracting from the full committee. Congress must address issues of Police Brutality and horrific circumstances that led to the murder of george floyd, and the senseless deaths of so many of our African American brothers and sisters. Thats why im grateful to senator graham for holding eight full Committee Hearing until the sink in america and i fully support that effort. We also have to continue to address the covid19 crisis in the impact its had on millions of americans and livelihoods. Just this morning the full Committee Held a conference on covid19 and its impact on tension. Centers im also glad mcconnell and several republican senators will take up the protection program. We are going to continue to address this
[inaudible conversations] in San Francisco. Im the director of events and we are pleased to welcome you to our author event. We are pleased to welcome you to this event with roland de wolk. We are pleased to have them both here for the first time. Before we begin, i would like to find out how many of you have been to the mechanics before . Wonderful. How many are new . Wonderful. Please come back wednesday at noon, we have a tour of our library, the librarian will show you around. At the International Test club down the hallway. 1850, we have a long history of San Francisco. We have Ongoing Events such as this one. We have the International Chess club down the hallway that presents their ongoing lectures and tournaments. Also, we have book clubs and a Writers Group and friday nights, we help we you welcome and join us for our cultural events. I would like to introduce our guest. Hes an Investigative Reporter in print, broadcast and online journalism. Is also a historian at the universi
[inaudible conversations] good morning, everyone and welcome back as we return from Holiday Season to continue our work and Economic Opportunity subcommittee. Without objection the chair is authorized to callec for recesst any time. Todays hearing is entitled redoing the availability of resources to address veteran hunger. Im hopeful we can shed some light on a very important issue for veterans around the country. This hearing will examine department of Veterans Affairs and department of Agriculture Programs identify Food Insecurity among nearly 20 million veterans and provide nutrition assistance for those in need. Specifically, today through aly focus on how veterans access nutrition resourceson come out recent policy changes have impacted the availability of resources, and how congress can more effectively support public and nonpublic agencies that seek to end veteran hunger, so critically important. This continues the subcommittees efforts to get economic factors that contribute to
Which is the event or the organizer of this event today. We are a nonprofit nonpartisan Technology Policy think tank and we tend to work on charting the path forward for policymakers towards our Bright Future or Technology Enhances freedom and freedom enhances technology. We are delighted to have you here today for our event. As a just a couple of housekeeping matters. Were going to go right through the various panels and presentations or if you have to get up please just do so. The will not be a break in the middle but i would urge you to try to avoid the camera shot to the extent possible and doubly urge you to not trip on the wires because thats no good. And so with that i i suppose te only other thing is hashtag is coppa and if you need to log into the wifi, the password is constituent at the moment. With that we will turn to our first panel which is creators in this space, and this produced some introductory videos which we will play to start off with. So enjoy. Thank you for comi
Are going to get started. Welcome. My name is ian adams, Vice President of policy and text freedom, we are a nonprofit nonpartisan Technology Think Tank and we tends to work on charting a path forward towards a Bright Future where Technology Enhances freedom and freedom enhances technology. We are delighted to have you here today for our event. A couple housekeeping matters, we will go through the various panels and presentations so if you have to go please do so. There will not be a break in the middle but we urge you to avoid camera shots if possible and not to trip on wires. That is not good. The only other thing is our hashtag and if you need to log into the wifi, it is constituent. We will turn to our first panel which is creators in this space and they have produced some introductory videos, enjoy, thank you for coming. We have a stand up and shout audience with our team of educators is devoted to creating original content that will delight and inspire children. We make preschool