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this year s deadline is january 20, 2017. that s inauguration day. for more information about the competition, go to our website, studentcam.org. tonight on c-span 3, former iowa senator tom harkin talks about the way food is marketed to children and how to encourage healthier eating. that s followed bay discussion on the news media and its depiction of domestic terrorist attacks. and later, supreme court oral argument in a case that will decide whether someone has the right to sue police officers for alleged false arrest and detention. former iowa senator tom harkin was the keynote speak eater a recent food law and policy conference in los angeles. he spoke about the rise in childhood obesity and how to encourage healthier eating habits. this is 45 minutes. okay. if i could have your attention, please. thank you, everyone. i know that you re enjoying your neighbor s company as we eat our lunch. what i d like to do now is introduce our keynote speaker for lunch, and when he
vegetables. but that s how they try to get in on some of these things. then we started the farm to school program. great secretary of agriculture. in 2013 and 14 school districts nationwide purchased over $800 million from local food from farmers and fisherman. this is 105% over what they ve done before. more and more skills. let me mention a couple of other things and i ll close, that both good and bad. good, soda taxes. by god, maybe we re finally going to get some soda taxes. i know berkeley, california had done this before, if i m not mistaken. but now this year it is on the ballot in several places and in june of this year, philadelphia city council passed a big soda tax, 15 cents per ounce on their sodas. goes into effect on the 1st of january ppt wouldn t you know it they filed suit just last month. filed suit against them in philadelphia. but this is now picking up a lost steam in different parts of the kcountry. so i know very soon we will see this big thing turn an
per county. leading to these long lines and major traffic delays. in hamilton county.. you may remember glitches with these e-poll signature books back in november. it caused voters to be turned away. and even forced the polls in all of ohio to stay open an hour and a half longer! fox 19 now s mike shell is live where officials are dealing with a different problem ahead of next tuesday s vote. mike, is it true hamilton county is in desperate need of poll workers? mike remote they are a little short at this point, tricia as early voting got underway today here at the board of elections.. but there is a program in place where the board is teaming up with local businesses to make sure the polls are manned next week and, more importantly, in november.. 1nat yeah, i want to vote. alright, right over there by the stop sign. hamilton county is gearing up for what could be a record turnout as was the case in many other states.. 1sherry we re doing everything we can to fully staff
and quadrupled in the past 30 years. up next the senate agricultural for a stray committee looks at school programs across the u.s.. the witnesses include a school nutrition experts including the president-elect of the nutrition association who discusses the purchasing, procurement and preparation of school meals this is just over two hours. we are going to make this a weekly effort and i know that senator leahy intends to come out here brought us some pumpkin squares that we have from the school menu in vermont. we ve tasted one. it s absolutely delicious. from bob casey we have mushroom and meatballs and these are also great. i feel like i m o i am on the fd channel right now. [laughter] but these are also. we thank senator casey who will be joining us and they will talk to us about what a habakkuk looks like. we ve got some apple slices so we are here for the duration. we can last a while this morning. and not to offend my wonderful cafeteria folks that we didn t eat like