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This is an hour. We are going to go ahead and get started. I really want to thank you folks are coming. This is terrific. Welcome to the 2017 state of the states. I am scott patterson, director of the National Governors association. I have a couple of things to mention, and then i will introduce our very distinguished panel, which we are thrilled to hear from. The first thing is i want to introduce our new nga logo. We are excited about it here on the podium. The other thing, i think it is really critical to know that right after the election as everyone knows, we have been in a fairly multiyear period of significant partisanship. So the National Governors association went out and polled 1000 american voters. We used frank muntz of muntz global partners. He is here for anyone who would like to talk to him after this event. We found some significantly interesting thing ....
We are going to go ahead and get started. I really want to thank you folks are coming. For coming. This is terrific. Welcome to the 2017 state of the states. I am scott patterson, director of the National Governors association. Have a few things to mention and then i will introduce our very distinguished panel. The first thing, i want to introduce our new nga logo. We are very excited about it. The other thing i want to tell folks about, because i think it is really critical to know, right after the election and as everybody knows, we have been in a fairly multiyear period partisanship. The Governors Association went olled 1000 american voters. We used frank muntz of muntz global partners. We found some interesting things in this poll. In an era of distrust of many politicians, Americans Trust their governor ....
A lot of secret sauce is today in different worlds but one of them is food and agriculture which has become much greater highlighted in the might of the public, people are much more interested in this thing. Theres a lot more selfhelp, a bob bork ngo private sector interest in news relating to food and health and nutrition Everything Else. If they can change in terms of the role of food and agriculture were as what it was 50 years ago where medical schools didnt get much attention to it. It was all thought to be a foreign basic issue, and you ate what you put on the plate for the most part. A few people like mike jacobs invited into this a biz of trying to provide some consumer help but there wasnt much there so that been a metamorphosis in terms of peoples interest in these issues and concerns of outside folks that are interested in them as well. I would have to say that i agree with donna that moving boxes around in government ....
The proceedings from today are to be published and moreover potential to be discontinued by policy makers and advocates and consumers as part of the 2017 political agenda. Todays event is open to the press and is being live streamed and televised. For those who are not physically present, im told you can join in on twitter also using the votefood2016. There are also twitter handles were available for the speakers on the biopages. Please help us keep the conversation on social media and dont forget to add votefood2016. Oscar cabrera, executive director, sarah roach and allyson and alissa. Thank you to them. Welcome to georgetown from the Oneil Institute and it is my great pleasure to introduce to you as the next speaker david vladeck. David. Prof. Vladeck thank you very much. [applause] good morning, everybody. We have a busy day ahead of us and wonderful potentialists, before we get started, i want to point out that ive been slid ....
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