Of the Obama Administration. Held by the Consumer Federation of america, this is about two hours and 15 minutes. Good morning. Welcome. My name is thomas, the director of the Food Policy Institute and Consumer Federation of america and 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, so i would like to say happy passover. As many of you know, Consumer Federation of america is an association of nearly 300 nonprofit consumer organizatio organizations. We were established in 1968 to advance the consumer interest through research, education and advocacy. And with focus on a lot of different Consumer Protection topics, but particularly relevant to this conference, we do food safety, nutrition and agricultural policy. So this Conference Provides an opportunity to hear from some of the key policymakers and players in the food policy world. Opportunity to explore food policy fro
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
At this. Lets look and see if the threat you have faced caused by the fear you identified. Very often, it is not, particularly when it faces the issues of undocumented immigrants. You can watch this on our companion network, cspan. The Consumer Federation of america held their annual food policy conference recently here in washington, d. C. Up next, a keynote address from congressman, jim mcgovern here in the u. S. And his suggestions on how to address it. A panel of experts discuss what they thought would be the food policy priorities of the Trump Administration and how they would contrast with past objectives of the obama and bush administration. My name is thomas kremion, the director of the Food Policy Institute at Consumer Federation of america. I would like to welcome you and thank you p ffor attending our h annual, National Food policy conference. Today is also the second day of the jewish passover holiday. I would like to say, happy passover. As many of you know, Consumer Feder
Term elections, the committee for Economic Development hosted this conference. Ok. Good morning, everyone. And thank you for joining us r the committee for Economic Developments spring policy conference. For those of you i have not met, im steve, the ceo for the committee. I would like to first thank our sponsors. You should see signs. Without these wonderful people we would not be able to do this. Triple creek ranch, henrietta for. The rand corporation, tiaa, insignature numb, cal tech, pace communications, kelly services. Thank you, karl, for everything that you do. Arizona state university, corn ferry, the Aerospace Corporation. Host hotels and resorts, air bus, broad view networks. Thunder bird school of Global Management and finally the the National Aeronautic association. So lets give a round of applause to all of our sponsors. [applause] we have a terrific lineup over the next two days. We will have conversations on the new administration and Congress First 100 days. Well look a
Term elections, the committee for Economic Development hosted this conference. Ok. Good morning, everyone. And thank you for joining us r the committee for Economic Developments spring policy conference. For those of you i have not met, im steve, the ceo for the committee. I would like to first thank our sponsors. You should see signs. Without these wonderful people we would not be able to do this. Triple creek ranch, henrietta for. The rand corporation, tiaa, insignature numb, cal tech, pace communications, kelly services. Thank you, karl, for everything that you do. Arizona state university, corn ferry, the Aerospace Corporation. Host hotels and resorts, air bus, broad view networks. Thunder bird school of Global Management and finally the the National Aeronautic association. So lets give a round of applause to all of our sponsors. [applause] we have a terrific lineup over the next two days. We will have conversations on the new administration and Congress First 100 days. Well look a