The toughest job in the world is to be the quarterback of the losing team in the super bowl and have to go right out for a press conference afterwards. Think of gene as the cam newton to have democratic party, the 2016 election. Hat concludes this wall street council. I want to thank you all for coming. Thank you to those on our team who worked so hard to make this a great event and make it go so smoothly. We had to scramble pretty hard over the course of the last week to make sure that we had an appropriate, relevant topical agenda for you to enjoy and i hope you have enjoyed it. Thank you all indeed very much for coming. Just a reminder, these sessions and discussions will be published in a special report in the wall street journal next tuesday, november 22. Want to thank our sponsors, 80 carney, nasdaq, and workday. Thank you very much again to you. It would not be possible without your support. Please do share your thoughts. We will be sending you a short survey tomorrow morning and just to elaborate a little bit more on what john said, as ceo councilmembers, you are all invited to a number of events. All the events in the next year. The ceo Council Lunch in davos, tuesday, january 17. Dinner with the wall street journal editors. One in menlo park, california, on march 28. One in chicago on may 16. We will be holding our first annual ceo Council Meeting outside the u. S. On may 16 at the palace hotel in tokyo with very senior asian officials, ceos, experts and others. And next years annual will be right here next november. It wont be after such a momentous election but it will be just as interesting and we will have had a year to digest these Extraordinary Events and see what is going on. Once again, thank you for joining us. Please join us outside now for cocktails. Thank you. [applause] here is some of what were covering monday on cspan. Secretaries of state will discuss the future of u. S. Alliances. Well have live coverage from the center of strategic an international studies. T 6 30 eastern, former Homeland Security officer michael chertoff. Live coverage here on cspan and at cspan. Org and the cspan radio app. Here are some of our featured programs coming up this weekend on cspan. Tonight at 8 00 eastern, the state of the black world conference discussing the impact of the 2016 election. Panelists include the author of and e there yet oderator mark thompson, host of sirius xm radio make it plain. Even when. Net together as blacknologist this one, and we have an agenda, we also have to unite with other people, to win. The object is to win. We dont just want to struggle for the struggles sake. There are thousands of people in our community that are in jail, that have been beat, that are dead. Were not activist revolutionaries because it is fun. My mother and father didnt participate in the movement for medals, for awards, for twitter, for instagram. They did these things because it was necessary. The Founding Fathers and the purpose of government. Redshirt turns touting of america is persuasion, the meaning of america is love. The meaning of america is building a better project or creating a Better Service or persuading someone to marry you or join your church or synagogue. There is a huge civic mindedness in american history. And sunday, newt beginning rinl rich and Patrick Kennedy discuss opioid addiction. People have to change their minds. They have to have some willpower. They also have to change their brains back. This is a biological thing. This is your grain is an organ. Once the doctors hand you these pills and say we took a mole ar out of your mouth, take these pills. For a lot of people, those pills damage that organ. Listen on the cspan radio app. With donald trump elected as the next u. S. President , elania trump becomes our nations second foreign born first lady. Learn more in cspans book first ladies. It is a companion to cspans well regarded biography tv series and features interviews first of the nations lady historians, buying fiss and photos from each of their lives. Published by Public Affairs is available wherever you buy books and now available in paper back. At a conference on food law and policy, former senator tom harkin talked about nutrition and Food Marketing as a contributing factor to problem of childhood obesity. He represented iowa in the senate for 30 years. Part of that time as the chair of agriculture committees. T is 45 minutes. Michael ok. If i could have your attention, please thank you, everyone. I know you are enjoying your neighbors company as we eat our lunch. What i would like to do now is introduce our keynote speaker for lunch, and when he is done, we will have a few more minutes for you to converse and introduce yourself to your neighbors and your tables. E are very honored to have former senator tom harkin with us today as our keynote speaker. I got to know senator harkin when i was on the law faculty in arkansas many, many years ago, when i first got involved in food and agriculture, and have always appreciated his support since then. He serves on our board our outside Advisory Board for our program, and one of the reasons of what drew him to our board and program was not necessarily our relationship, or my good looks. It was because he has grandchildren here in los angeles, and i have learned that connection usually draws people in. But even though i do not know that his biography needs to be read it is in your program i do want to highlight a few things. First of all, senator harkin has a very long record of public service, from congress and the state of iowa, to the senate, starting in 1990. He retired from the senate in january, 2015. His ability, although it is not listed in his biography i will state it. His ability to be a bipartisan advocate to Cross Party Lines is sorely missed in washington these ays. Senator harkin is well known for his work with the american disabilities act. In addition to his great work in that area, he has also had a great track record with respect to health and food, and children. Following the death of senator ted kennedy, senator harkin, in 2009, became the chairman of the labor and pensions committee, and has made a real trailblazer in combating obesity, having led the efforts to require School Districts participating in the National SchoolLunch Program to establish School Wellness olicies. And other plans and efforts that have led to the 2010 child nutrition bill, and the healthy hungerfree kids act. He has also worked closely with the ftc over the years, which was discussed in our previous panel, and has commissioned reports and studies, and has pressed the industry to adopt uniform, systemwide, ageappropriate guidelines for Food Marketing to children. As you can probably tell, senator harkin is a well of wealth of information and is a walking historian when it comes to these issues. There is no one that knows the politics, and that was referenced in both panels the politics involved in food policy and food law. There is no one that knows the politics of food policy and ealth than senator harkin. Again, it is very gracious of him to be here with us and to show it is not only the history, but his vision moving forward, which is very important. If you know senator harkin, he is about watching the talk, not just talking. He is a wonderful center that harkens his library in des moines, iowa, at drake university. I was there a few weeks ago. I met with his staff. I am impressed with their vision and what they are trying to accomplish. It was a delight to visit with them. He is still looking ahead, looking forward, looking at health and awareness in schools, the workplace, and all the activities he is involved in. He may be retired, but he is not really retired. Senator harkin, on behalf of this audience and your grandchildren, we are happy to have you here today, and we invite you to come up to the podium. [applause] sen. Harkin thank you very much, michael. Let me just reinterpret what he said. He said that i am a walking historian on this. What that really means is he is an old guy. He has been around a long time. [laughter] sen. Harkin but thank you, michael, for the kind introduction, your friendship for many, many years, and your leadership at the Resnick Program here at ucla. Again, i want to thank stuart esnick and Lynda Resnick for your great generosity in establishing this program here at ucla and even beyond that, for what i know of you personally and lynda, your support for health and wellness in all of its capacities and all of its venues around the country. So, stuart resnick, thank you very much for your generosity. [applause] sen. Harkin it is an honor to be here with so many people that i do admire, like stewart, michael, and kelly brownell, who i have followed for so many years. His leadership, back when we were always trying to do things and calling upon him for his expertise. Of course, Michael Jacobson with the center for science and the Public Interest again, always on the cutting edge. Always giving good guidance and direction on how to go. Jacob, also with harvard, and Marlene Schwartz well, i shouldnt there are so many people i have admired for so long and still do for all the great work that you do, and thanks for asking me to be part of this program today. So, i will try to talk for just a few minutes, but like an historian, i tend to get de tracked and get off on to stoil stories like this. Let me just start by saying this america is in the grips of a massive child abuse scandal. America is in the grips of a massive child abuse scandal hreatening the future of millions of unsuspecting kids. Every day, these perpetrators come right into our homes and our schools. As we now know, they are on iphones, social media, the internet. They are talking directly to children, and they are tempting them into risky behavior, threatening their future and parents are all but helpless to stop it. Child abuse . Well, what else do you call it when the junk Food Industry spends 12 million bombarding kids with tens of thousands of ds each year from everything from monster thick burgers with 1420 calories and 107 grams of at to 20 ounce cokes and 1250 grams of sugar. What else to call it when there is childhood diabetes that previously had an onset age of bout 40 . Well, that is what i call it child abuse. It is estimated that children ages six to 11 you know these figures, average 28 hours a week watching tv. They are exposed to as many as 8000 and per year, and as many 21 fast food ads every day. The center for disease and control and prevention it used to be called the center for Disease Control, and in 1990, i added prevention, so now it is the center for Disease Control and prevention. [applause] sen. Harkin just an aside. [laughter] sen. Harkin anyway, they said n 2015 said obese children are twice what it was just 30 years ago. Less than 1 of kids meals combinations at restaurants meet international standards. Less than 1 , and just 3 meets the industrys own and you heard about this earlier the childrens food and Beverage Advertising Initiative to just 3 initiative. Just 3 meets their own standards, and are touted kids live well nutrition standards. 3 in restaurants. Now, you can get all of this from the rudd center, who was here earlier, with Marlene Schwartz, who is here, founded by dr. Brownell. You can get all of the information from the rudd center. Fast Food Marketing the a social media and mobile devices is growing exponentially, we have heard that, too, including spanishlanguage aimed at hispanic youth. I will have more to say about that. A lot has been said about selfregulation we have to go to the industry and get selfregulation. Ell, the same thing i talked about, the childrens food and everage Advertising Initiative of 2007 just get this, one aspect of it, four large Candy Companies mars, hershey, kraft and nestle pledged that they would not advertise candy products to children. However there was a 45 increase in 2011 compared to 2007 he fortis ent into effect, before it was adopted to hash before this went into effect, before this went into effect, ford was before it was adopted. How is that possible . They agreed not to aim their ads at kids, but they increased not quite doubled, but close o doubled the amount of ads on candy the new they know kids are watching along with their amily. Again, when people talk about selfregulation, there is another thing called caru it has been a dismal failure. There is no teeth. There is nothing they can do, and it has just been failure. Other countries australia, european union, canada, they try to regulate through voluntary efforts also, and quite frankly, most of them have failed miserably. Interestingly enough, in my research, the two most extreme controls on advertising to children regarding food was in norway and quebec. I look at that and thought how do they do that . Well, they do not have a constitution to worry about like we do in the united states. What they have done is they have removed the legal right to advertise to all children under the age of 12. There is no legal right to do that in those countries. And we know the American Psychological association we know that Young Children, and ou can cut and doris the different ages, 12, 10, 14 Young Children are more likely to accept ads as truthful, unbiased, and as we know, the more difficultyy they have separating commercials from regular programs. Again, we have very few to zero regulations right now basically in the united states. I will cover a couple of those. I mentioned caru the childrens advertising review unit established in 1974. We tried to do stuff with them all the time i was in the house the 1970s, the 1980s, the 1990s nothing. We would get nothing done with them whatsoever. Now, again, i know we are here talking about food, but i think about it in terms of a Broader Health policy. I have made this statement many times in the past in america it is easy to be unhealthy, and hard to be healthy. Easy to be unhealthy, hard to be healthy. That should be changed around. It should be easy to be healthy, and harder to be unhealthy. That comes down to all kinds of things. We are building subdivisions without sidewalks, so kids cannot go outside and walk to school. We have Elementary Schools being built in America Today without a playground. Bike and pedestrian lanes i tried to get this done on a highway bill years ago to say if you have any federal money any federal money for streets, roads things like that, bridges you had to incorporate i did not say you had to do it, i just said you had to incorporate in the design a bike and walking path lane alongside that cap lane alongside that wrote. I lost. We still do not have it, but in europe they do. You build a bridge in europe, it has to have a bike path lane or new roads, but not yet in america. Just, the things that, again, go to providing for exercise and people to be out. We just dont do that in america, and we need to have this as part of our planning process, so that people can actually get out, walked, but, walk, bike, not be afraid of getting run over and hit and killed. Bike, not be afraid of getting run over and hit and killed. One history thing i wanted to go over because it has been brought up here, and that is the federal trade commission. I was there when all of this happened as history. In the 1970s, there were three entities there was the action for childrens television, Michael Jacobson the center for science and Public Interest, and consumers union, all petitioned the federal trade commission to act on behalf of childrens advertising to do something about childrens advertising. The commissioner of the fda also weighed in on this, and petitioned the ftc to do something about it. Michael purchased was the head of the ftc at the time. You could read his book about the revolt against regulation that he published later on, but here is what happened. The federal trade commission put out a notice i do not have the exact date here, but it was right around 1977, the b 1976. Maybe 1976. Michael jacobson maybe he knows. Maybe 1978. Ok. Put out a notice of proposed regulations on regulating advertising to children, and it would ban all tv ads to an audience with significant portions of children ban tv ads for Food Products posing serious dental health, and for sugar products not included in the ban to be balanced by Health Disclosures funded by the advertisers. I remember this very well, and boy, Congress Went nuts. The industry went nuts. That is the first time i ever heard the phrase nanny state. All these speeches on the floor of the house, senators government is going to take away parental rights, take the rights away from parents, and give it to this nanny state, and all kinds of ridiculous things like that came out. In fact, in 1978 it became a big issue in the 1978 campaign. I know. I was running for reelection. I almost got my head handed to me because i came out in favor of this, doing something about advertising to kids. Well, i won the election, obviously, but i remember being labeled as being in support of the nanny state at that time. So, it became a big issue. A lot of people lost elections in 1978 because of that. Well, for a lot of reasons but that played a big role. People got so scared that when the new congress came in in 1979, they began to work and have hearings on these proposed regulations hearings that brought in all the industry, and stuff, and it just became overwhelming. Finally, the congress, in 1980, passed a law. Ftc improvements act. Congress caved. Here