Chair scott the committee will come to order. Welcome and thank you for joining us today on this extraordinary and very important an urgent hearing entitled a hearing to review the state of the livestock industry. Now, after brief opening remarks, members will receive testimony from our Witnesses Today and then the hearing will be open to questions. Members will be recognized in order of seniority, alternating between majority and minority members and in order of arrival for those members who have joined us after the hearing was called to order. And, of course, members, when you are recognized, please remember to unmute mute your microphones. Then you will have five minutes to ask your questions or make a comment. And if you are not speaking , please, i ask you to remain muted in order to minimize any background noise. And in order to give as many questions as possible, the timer on each of your screens. Now, ladies and gentlemen, let me take just a few minutes to give you my own openi
Cspan. Then at 9 30 p. M. Eastern, the House Veterans Affairs committee on recruitment of veterans by violent extremist organizations. Tonight on cspan online or at cspan. Org or our cspan video now app. Now agriculture secretary discusses the impacts of cooperatives on the farm economy. From the National Press club in washington, d. C. , this is about 40 minutes. R seats. We will begin the program. Please welcome your host to the podi good morning, folks, please come in and find your seat. Well begin our program this morning. And to get us started, please welcome to the podium your host and president , doug obrien. Dct the National Press club, welcome everyone here in person. This is the final day of the 2021 cooperative impact conference. For the hundreds of folks on the live streams as well. To our audience, this is a really exciting conversation. We have been looking for to this. I will just take a moment to introduce the gentleman and bring them to the stage. I look forward to thi
And find your seats. We will begin the program. Please welcome your host to the podium. [applause] good morning, everyone. From here in washington dc, at the National Press club, welcome everyone here in person. This is the final day of the 2021 cooperative impact conference. For the hundreds of folks on the live streams as well. To our audience, this is a really exciting conversation. We have been looking for to this. I will just take a moment to introduce the gentleman and bring them to the stage. I look forward to this important conversation about how cooperatives can be a critical strategy and helping build back the economy, help build back a more inclusive economy for everyone. The first person i will bring to the stage is the executive director of the federation of southern cooperatives. News also a longtime board member for inclusive. He has a long career in International Cooperative development. His experience includes smith and project about meant, management and marketing. He
Good morning, please come in and find your seats. We will begin the program. Please welcome your host to the podium. [applause] good morning, everyone. From here in washington dc, at the National Press club, welcome everyone here in person. This is the final day of the 2021 cooperative impact conference. For the hundreds of folks on the live streams as well. To our audience, this is a really exciting conversation. We have been looking for to this. I will just take a moment to introduce the gentleman and bring them to the stage. I look forward to this important conversation about how cooperatives can be a critical strategy and helping build back the economy, help build back a more inclusive economy for everyone. The first person i will bring to the stage is the executive director of the federation of southern cooperatives. News also a longtime board member for inclusive. He has a long career in International Cooperative development. His experience includes smith and project about meant,
This is about 50 minutes. Tiative and im joined by my colleague, the director of the Aerospace Security project at csis. We are delighted to welcome general laura richardson, talk about her perspective on what is happening down south. She is an army aviator flying blackhawk helicopters, she has trained soldiers are deployed into iraq and afghanistan and combat, she has seen policymaking at the highest level of the white house and understands the role of congress. I was fortunate to meet her first while she was in the key role of legislative liaison where she built relationships with congress to establish policy and importantly fund the army. I also got to meet her again during her deployment to afghanistan. Or i saw her lead in a very complex and challenging where i saw her lead in a very complex and challenging environment. I cannot think of a better person to tackle these issues and strengthen our relationships in the region. It is my honor to be here and have the opportunity to be a