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Thats not true. Folks can sell outside of school, which is what these candy deals are. Outside of school theres no prohibition. Times we have that. I dont think thats the they may be mistaken. Thank you for being with us today. Thank you both for your respective work on committee report. I know that this is no simple undertaking. I appreciate the fact that it takes and requires months and months of scientific analysis and consideration of thousand of stake holder comments and thoughtful collabor...

Electio elections. Later treasury secretary jack lou on the upcoming debt ceiling debate. Every five years, the departments of agriculture and health and Human Services issue dietary guidelines and nutritional information to the public. Next the House Agriculture Committee hears from tom vilsack and Silvia Burwell about the process. This is two and a half hours. Good morning. Lets go ahead and get started. Trent, will you open us with a prayer please . Dear heavenly father, we ask that you bless...

Changes the conversation because focusing on advancing women and, again, i want women in the top of every profession but when we think about it that way, we start counting. Because thats the way you measure how well women are doing, how many women are in fortune 500 and how many women are in Senior Management and how many women are computer scientists. All that have does focus pretty much on wealthy white women, by and large. It does not phofocus on the millions of the women at the bottom. One o...

To the act the dga shall contain guidelines for the general public, shall be based on the preponderance at the time the report is prepared and promoted by each agency carrying out food or nutritional program. A sound Development Process is important because it is extremely difficult to reverse or change Public Policy once implemented without causing consumer confusion. At a time when consumers are already subjected to conflicting and often contradictory health information, staying within scope o...

Secretary vilsack and i agree we thought that was an important thing to do. Thats the part of the process in terms of public input. I think the question here is that, one, did they follow the guidelines and what steps were taken to make sure the committee followed the law and from an ethical standpoint is once youve served as your capacity of that Advisory Committee and major recommendations, what is your responsibility in moving forward . And one of the things we dont want is that these advisor...

State of play there . Jim, are you following that . Well, a bit. Im not probably not as expert as some others are on this. But certainly i think youre right that the because we are two such gigantic financial markets, the opportunities in liberalization there or harmonization are tremendous. The benefits that flow from that are probably as large as anything you could think of in the entire ttip agreement that would flow from that. In the United States the reluctance on the part and i think we sh...

Recommendations were based on dietary guidelines. Secretary burwell, what instructions were given the Advisory Committee members regarding the Advisory Committees disbandment . With regard to the specifics of the disbandment, i can get back to you, congressman, with regard to the direction that was given to review the science with regard to the issues that were in front of them with regard to the dietary guidelines and present a report about that. So with regard to the question of disbandment, i...

Would be to fortify the protections, the Privacy Protections for americans in the law but the law has evolved and exactly the opposite direction and indeed since 9 11 there has been a sea change in the law. If you back up a few decades following the church committees revelations in 1970s there was a series of laws and policies put in place that establish a kind of golden rule. Intelligence agencies could not collect information on americans from within the United States without some individualiz...

Of the devastating earthquake and tsunami. Translator i ask the savior of the world to look upon our bothers and sisters in iraq and syria. Pope francis says a special prayer for those in war zones as christians around the world observe the Christmas Holiday. We will have more on christmas coming up in just a moment, but we begin with the fight against isil. Kurdish fighters appear to be regaining ground. Mohammed has this exclusive report from near sinjar in northern iraq. Kurdish peshmerga fig...

Killed. A local twist with fashion. To the runways of swahilis fashion week. [ music ] it was one of the Biggest National disasters. The morning after christmas 10 years ago a massive earthquake struck off the coast triggering a tsunami. Nearly a quarter of a million were killed, destroying entire communities. Now, a decade later, chem rations are held to pay tribute to the victims. This is the scene in the indonesian city, worst hit by the tsunami, more than 106,000 people were killed in averpa...