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i would like to welcome you to georgetown university. with that in mind, i am sure you are just as eager as i am to hear more about the u.s. da framework. to kick off the program, i am pleased to introduce chuck conner, who joins us as the president and ceo of the national council of farmer cooperatives. he has been impacting agricultural policy for several decades. he served as deputy secretary for the usda as well as special assistant to the president. thank you for joining us. [applause] thank you for that kind introduction, and it is my great pleasure to introduce the secretary of agriculture. i look forward to hearing a lot more about the framework on competitiveness and resiliency the usda has developed and will be laying out for us today. the past two years, we have seen our food and ag culture supply chain rocked by what we call once in a generation of events. the covid-19 pandemic, and most recently russia s war in ukraine. they have strained the entire sec ....
More homes burn to the ground. Nightly news begins right now. Announcer the Democratic National convention. This is nbc nightly news with lester holt reporting tonight from philadelphia. Good evening. As we come on the air, the roll call vote is under way on the floor below us. And we expect that before we are off the air, Hillary Clinton will be the official nominee of the Democratic Party, the first woman to get the nomination of a major party. Its a moment of political history for certain, but one that Hillary Clinton and her campaign will have little time to bask in as her team aims to mend tears in the party. And to recast her image after republicans last week painted her in the harshest of terms. Bill clinton will take the stage tonight to make the ca ....
Way. Whereas the house of representatives may have about 40 or 50 members that are predominantly Food Production represents Food Production districts. Every United States senator represents at least some Food Production. That includes from the smallest states of rhode island and delaware to, of course, the largest states. And historically, those interests were dominated from people by the midwest and the heartland states. So illinois, indiana, missouri, my own state of kansas. And the midwest, up through the dakotas. And states in the south where you had members of congress and especially members of the United States who were elected forever. They accumulated great amounts of power, and they were able to influ ....
The government, if it fails, congress doesnt like that very well. They will sometimes use failure as an example of why are you even doing this in the first place. So thats why it is important that these related ngos still have the resources to inspire the government. But repeating what you said, only the government can scale these projects back. Hello, my name is ben hirschman. Thank you for speaking to us and thank you for the objectivity and nonpartisanship. A lot of us are appreciative of that as its difficult for a former public official to be objective. You touched on Energy Security and how theres aspects there. I wanted to ask could speak a little more about who security and Energy Security is, particularly with how they are grown. I think my friend could be able to comment better than me. In africa we have this initiative that the goal is to provide enough electrici ....