[inaudible]. Thank you, ken. [laughter]. Its, its a real pleasure to be here this morning, and thanks to weda for organizing this very, very timely session on nafta 2. 0. As someone who has been involved in the trade, war is too strong, debate is too tame, the vigorous trade discussions weve had in washington over the last 20 years, were certainly at, even in scope of those discussions were at an unprecedented moment right now awaiting to see the unrolling of the adminstations new trade strategy. We have been, weve heard a lot from the president when he was a candidate, when he was president elect. Since becoming president weve heard a lot about mexico. We heard a lot about mexicans. Weve heard a lot about nafta. We heard a lot about china. We heard a lot about it. Pp. A lot of things are going to be ripped up. A lot things will be done away with. A lot of things will be changed, yet we have little in the way of actual specifics that have come out. The president s trade team, some of t
Thank you, ken. [laughter] its, its a real pleasure to be here this morning, and thanks to weda for organizing this very, very timely session on nafta 2. 0. As someone who has been involved in the trade, war is too strong, debate is too tame, the vigorous trade discussions weve had in washington over the last 20 years, were certainly at, even in scope of those discussions were at an unprecedented moment right now awaiting to see the unrolling of the administrations new trade strategy. We have been, weve heard a lot from the president when he was a candidate, when he was president elect. Since becoming president weve heard a lot about mexico. We heard a lot about mexicans. Weve heard a lot about nafta. We heard a lot about china. We heard a lot about it. A lot of things are going to be ripped up. A lot things will be done away with. A lot of things will be changed, yet we have little in the way of actual specifics that have come out. The president s trade team, some of them have been na
Of our Advisory Committee members. I just would like to say thank you to her excellent Advisory Committee. One of the great ideas that came out of our Advisory Committee meetings this year was to try Live Audience polling, get into the new millennium son going to test that out now. If you look up the screen behind me, we have our first Live Audience polling question, the least important question that you answer at this years conference. But i think it would be, it will be interesting to see how we feel about it. So there are two ways that you can participate in this Live Audience polling. You can get on your phones, browser, your laptop come your tablet browser and put in pollev. Com food policy or text food policy to the number 22333 and so right out food policy in the message of the text, and as you see somebody coming must be a millennial already got on, answered. Were going to try this out, see if we get any yeses and let you experiment with that. While you experiment with that, i
Food safety. Cluded the federation of america posted this event. Good morning. All right. Good morning. Welcome. My name is thomas. I am the director of the Food Policy Institute at Consumer Federation of america. I would like to welcome you and thank you for attending our 40th annual National Food policy conference. Today is also the second day of the jewish passover holiday and so i would like to say happy passover. You know, Consumer Federation of america is an association of nearly 300 nonprofit consumer organizations. We were established in 1962 advance the form through advocacy. We focus on a lot of different Consumer Protection topics but particularly relevant to this conference is food safety, and agriculture policy. This Conference Provides an opportunity to hear from some of the key policymakers and players in the food policy world. And opportunity to explore food policy from a diverse range of perspectives. I hope you will agree we have a really Great Program for the shares
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