We can and hold these families in our prayers. Thank you. Back live now on capitol hill where the House Appropriations committee is returning from its lunch break. They continue work on 2021 a spending bill. Live coverage here on cspan2. Mistaken at the best of times. They are unconscionable in the midst of a pandemic. I want to remind my colleagues that foodstamp spending is a powerful anti recession tool and has previously been estimated that for each dollar spent from benefits a dollar 70 is generated in economic activity. Let me say thank you again to chairman bishop, Ranking Member and their leadership and other areas of the bill. Their strong investments to ensure the continued availability and safety of the nation food supply as well as language designed to protect the health and safety of workers in our meatpacking plants and our poultry plants as well as the farmworkers who are out in the field every single day. I thank you very, very much that all of the attention youve paid
While we were on the august recess, it was projected that theyd reach trillion, doubling the estimate of we simply cannot continue down this path of spending large sums of money without regard to the fiscal future of our nation. This bill takes the same approach American Families take every day. They simply have to do more with less under the biden economy. American families decide every single day where to cut back spending to pay for whats most important for them. For them, those decisions are difficult. Likewise, we have to make tough, difficult decisions for the good of the nation. This represents 2. 7 billion across discretionary accounts throughout this bill except for the Supplemental Program for w. I. C. With this reduction the fiscal year 2024 agriculture appropriation bills discretionary allocation is 15. 1 billion. By redirecting nearly 7. 5 billion in unobligated funds from the inflation reduction act, this funds the food and agriculture and the Commodity Futures Trading Co
Well continue to see isolated to scattered snow showers next days. But then things are dry on the 7day. Let you know how warm coming up. As we just talked about, the snowpack off mount rose highway is the best its been this time of year for 4 years. Hydrologists around the region measured the amount of water monday before the big storm this past weekend. Usda National Resources Conservation Service used their snowtel site to collect the data. The system provides information about water supply forecasts. Hydrologists are excited for the amount of snow weve been seeing, but were still only 2 3rds of the way to what would be the ideal amount of snowfall. Were still in the prime snowproducing months, and we still have the month of february is very critical. We need it to keep happening, and this is what its supposed to be doing this time of year. I think people have forgot. This is what its supposed to do. Seen the 7foot deficit before lake tahoe is full again. Thats what were seeing. It c
That guy should write a book and go to every conference. Who does not want to be that kind of leader . If the board says, your time has come. , thatf us would go, well was nice while it lasted. [laughter] have fun. And prickly probably thinking, meet the new boss, same as the and frankly, probably thinking, meet the new boss, same as the old boss. Thank you. My pleasure. [indiscernible] he saidf the things that really resonated with me was your trip to india where you saw how they kept people divided and really wanting to move beyond the circumstances. My question to you is and palm beach county, we see that love of division amongst a lot of nonprofits. Everybody is competing for resources and sometimes it doesnt create the kind of environment where people are working together and working collectively toward common goals. My question is, what would be your strategy for dressing those kinds of issues and have you seen any communities where they have kind of found the answer and are work
[gavel pounds] hello, welcome to tonights program at the Commonwealth Club of california. Our program for tonight food fights for the 21stcentury first century. Womens voices driving change. We have the executive director of moms across america, the founder and executive director of teens turning green and our host and moderator is the ceo of tech talk studio. Now im going to turn it over to christy dames. Thank you. Thank you to the Commonwealth Club. We really appreciate being here tonight. I am really excited to have these really powerful women. Some are moms. Some are not. My first question to deborah garcia. You have two major awardwinning films. Youre quite the vocal activist and speaker. You have a famous husband, jerry garcia. How did you come to make films about food . You have been a film maker for a long time. In 1970 when i was in college, i started making food, and because of that era, activity land, going natural about that, i became vegetarian, became kind of a organic f