Isand we begin with the response to the bribery and Corruption Scandal surrounding soccers world governing body. Ahead says that hes not ready to resign hes the one who can restore trust in the organization reporter hes not going anywhere, at least in his own mind, thats for sure. Fast and furious today. He said he wont go anywhere, and he is planning to go for an unprecedented fifth term in a reelection bid tomorrow on friday. 79yearold in a defiant speech in fifas conference said that the arrests have brought shame and humiliation to the sport of soccer. I cannot monitor everyone all of the time. If people want to do wrong they will also try to hide it. But it must fall me bring stability, for the reputation and well being of our organization, and to find a way forward to fix things. Now assuming the reelection vote takes place on friday, its a mix. And in russia and africa, he has won many friends over the years. In the u. S. And europe, any reelection will be met with derision. Fif
Francisco bay area to join us in promoting this event and making sure that when we are ready to submit our bid to the nfl in may of next year that we will have created a communitybased bay area wide effort to reflect on this wonderful opportunity. Right now it is only an invitation but we will show this allows us to create the most collaborative efforts with segments of business education, bay area, the different mayors coming together, bringing us all together on this incredible opportunity. I have always thought that sports is an inspiration. Im a big fan of 9ers, i know they will have an opportunity to win tonight. But it inspires us to think through what we can do together in collaboration. Winning is certainly a great thing to have. But i think we win on many more fronts when we bring people together and focus on a larger goal, that winning means generations of kids win. Our economy wins. What i think are things that we do well. All of so many other aspects of our society win out
So theres been a concerted effort in ac 21 to continue to focus on these issues. The labeling issue is a challenging one because historically our labeling has been for either nutrition or because of a known hazard or something that requires a warning. I think its fair to say that this isnt about nutrition and at least from my perspective, its not about any kind i have safety hazard. This is more about consumers right to know. Candidly i think the debate is a 20th century debate in the 21st century. There was mention of bar codes and other ways, necessarilies in europe is currently using a ur code. It could be Something Like a bar code that would allow folks with smartphone or the ability in Grocery Stores to have reading devices that would allow folks to have all the information they need and want about a product without necessarily creating a label that might accepted the wrong message about the safety of the product. We are engaged with the fda in discussions how we might be able to
Billion in crops. Billionl protect 165 in livestock, poultry, and specialty crops as a result of this budget. Ag will continue to support 140 billion in agricultural exports which helps to support one million jobs at home. The food and nutrition Assistance Programs will benefit nearly 47 million americans under the snap program. 8. 7 women, infant and children under the wic program. Thellion children under summer feeding programs. The food safety budget will provide assistance in detecting our food supply and reducing foodborne illnesses by estimated 52,000 illnesses. Nrcs will provide conservation assistance that will add 23 million acres of land to our conservation programs, helping half a million producers do a better job of conserving soil and protecting water. While it is not related to this budget, it does have an impact on this budget. Our overall budget will also million acres of forest and grasslands under the u. S. Forest service, which will protect 70,000 communities that ar
Assist and help in preserving our agricultural production, and expand new uses and opportunities for agricultural products. And we will also focus on an effort to do a better job of addressing the challenges that the poultry industry in particular face with disease. We have antiquated facilities, which is, frankly, true of our entire Agricultural Research service. We need a new and creative way to address the challenges of our infrastructure, and one way we can do that is by taking a look at our unobligated balances as representative farr had suggested, allowing us to retain those balances, that are within a budget thats been approved by this committee, and use them to upgrade our facilities. This would also give us an opportunity to better manage and perhaps reduce the 70 million square feet of space that we currently operate, lease or own. As i shared with you earlier, yesterday, mr. Chairman, i think there is an opportunity for us to save significant resources by rightsizing our ren