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Little girls, the 8 little boys, and the 6 dedicated women who died at Sandy Hook Elementary School one week ago. Today, here in newtown, at 9 30 in the morning, bells rang out for each of the people whose lives were lost, mothers and daughters, sons and nieces and nephews. We remember them all. [ bell tolling ] for the next hour, well hear from family members because they want a voice, and we want to give to them. A voice to tell us about their children, how special they were, the lives they lived. We dont want to just focus on how they die. We want to focus on how they lived and the lives th...

Connecticut, a town that for a week now has felt much longer than seven days has been heavy under grief and also full of love and full of resolve to remember the lives cut far too short. We wanted to come back to newtown tonight not to argue or point fingers but to honor and to remember the 12 little girls, the eight little boys, six dedicated women who died at Sandy Hook Elementary School one week ago today. Today here in newtown at 9 30 in the morning bells rang out for each of those lives lost, the mothers and the daughters, the sons and the nieces and the nephews and the brothers and the s...

For the next hour well hear from family members because they want a voice and we want to give it to them, a voice to tell us about their children and how wonderful they were and how special they were and we dont want to focus just on how they died but how they lived and the lives they touched and they touch so many lives. Well hear from the Mcdonald Family that graciously invited me into their home to tell me about their bright and talented 7yearold daughter grace. Graces funeral was today. There were also funerals for olivia and dylan and mary and rachel. We will remember them. Dylan hockley ...

But definitely look forward to engage in discussions around policy with regard to Financial Education, which is a term that we prefer at pace as opposed to Financial Literacy. Because oftentimes implies that people are illiterate. Perhaps Financial Empowerment might be a better term. I was born in, on a pineapple plantation in hawaii where the common term today is in farm worker housing. We were poor but didnt know it because we thought everybody lived like that. I dont member very much in having any choice. But we had the ocean as our playground. And so we would chop down some bamboo and use ...

So theres been a concerted effort in ac 21 to continue to focus on these issues. The labeling issue is a challenging one because historically our labeling has been for either nutrition or because of a known hazard or something that requires a warning. I think its fair to say that this isnt about nutrition and at least from my perspective, its not about any kind i have safety hazard. This is more about consumers right to know. Candidly i think the debate is a 20th century debate in the 21st century. There was mention of bar codes and other ways, necessarilies in europe is currently using a ur c...