we did that and the senate cafeteria about three years ago. and we turned it over a new vendor. before working on to get reinstated, they took by every entrÉe i am in the cafeteria down below the calories, that and sodium of every entrÉe item in you'd be amazed how people going to the line began two now the different things. the have the information. some more than anything that is what we're trying to do and just take all of the money out would end it. that would be the end of our endeavor to try to shift the system toward eight willis and prevention and the reason these are in here is to do it in a comprehensive manner and quite frankly i say to my friend a lot of this is geared toward low-income americans to help them have a healthier life and health your lifestyle. so i hope that we would reject the amendment of the senator from wyoming. >> let me just say about this and then invite others to comment, i think judd gregg made a good point yesterday. he is not here but made a good point i thought in talking about how the bulk of the prevention of this leak or to incentivize in

eat in the cafeteria, nobody allowed to talk. that kind of a thing. are you preparing anybody for anything except prison with those kind of rules? the expectations are set so low, what do you expect? people will perform to where you expect them to. on the accountability side, that is the big problem. that is the difference between charter schools, i think. school boards are not there to represent the parents. school boards are there to protect the administration nowadays, unfortunately. host: mr. smith? guest: school boards are typically elected. running schools and overseeing schools, managing schools, versus overseeing schools, that is two different tasks. in the charter environment, we have a group that manages the schools but then you have an authorizer that will hold them accountable. when a school board is managing their own schools they're deal wealth superintendent. they have to disentangle themselves with what is going on. host: richard on the line for democrats. go ahead. caller: hello? host: go ahead. caller: good morning. guest: good morni

they have certain foods in their cafeteria. if you work to tax health care benefits, which is what senator mccain intended to do, i think that is too fast. and the employer based system is going to end, let it and because people wanted to end. the key to president obama's program is, if you like what you have, you can keep it. the government is not going to tell you anything. they are going to give you more choices than have now under the republican insurance company rule. let the american people make the choice. if they make the choice, maybe the employer system will end, and maybe it will not, but let the american people decide. host: governor dean has written a book. is this out yet? guest: it is out on iphones. you can't pick up an -- you can pick up an app. host: how much did the president and sole with you on these issues? guest: i do not think that would be proper. i'm not giving him a piece of the royalties either. caller: with all due respect, dr. dean, i researched the candidate in 2004. there many articles dealing wi

the principal banned this play and many people were very upset saying there's a recruiter in the cafeteria, why can't we be showing what the sold deers' experiences are. there is this push tort conformity and what we find, however, given this is that when the government is covering something up, it ultimately gets out there. you see the case of the pentagon papers way before the internet. this was when the u.s. government was in vietnam and the secretary of defense says, decides to commission a study saying why are we in vietnam and that's the pentagon papers, sort of an interesting thing that the secretary of defense has to commission a study to find out why we are in the war. well, those papers got out, obama deciding to not release these torture photos which was, again, i think not a great decision for free speech, those sort of will get out. so i think what we find is that government transparency is more important than anything else and that especially given the technologies today things wirl get out so the government has really an obligation to be transparent. >> educated at brown uni

i was giving a talk at google and went into the cafeteria and it was striking. there is either a red, yellow or green sign right in your face and i will tell you it has a real affect. red means eat small amount for taste, yellow, each a moderate amount common dream as much as you want. i was in charge of regulating food and i tell you it had a major affect on me. we have to change how we proceed stimulus and we have to have greater disclosure. we have to change -- we don't stop with just manual labor. what is served in the schools, with the vending machines -- parents, it's so hard you try as hard as you can and the kids are being stimulated with fat, sugar and salt. they have to change how we regulate advertising manual labor is a key step changing how we perceive the product. >> thank you very much. >> thank you. >> good afternoon. a quick question despite your comments on rules we can't just tell burger king and mcdonald's to stop serving foods, we could try but it's not going to work. what would you suggest since you are no longer an offical and can talk abo

they will not have 24ir parent around to move into their first dorm room or hear complaints about cafeteria food. they'll not have their parents' consolation and encouragement to continue even after a poor test grade or difficult professor. of course these students who lose a parent in iraq or afghanistan will not have the financial support of their parent in this time of rising college costs and economic uncertainty. while this legislation does not provide students with the same types of support a parent could provide, i hope it will ease the financial burden of paying for college just a little bit. the legislation before us easily passed the house once. i hope for a similar result again. i urge my colleagues to join me in voting yes on this legislation. i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. the gentleman from texas, mr. hinojosa. mr. hinojosa: mr. speaker, i wish to ask the gentleman from pennsylvania, congressman glen thompson -- glenn thompson, if he has any further speakers. mr. thompson: i yield back my time. the spe

occurred and what happened is the paperwork that showed all the problems that led to this upgrading cafeteria to conserve the number made it over to the planning documents for the new construction so they still felt they had this dilapidated dining facility and i don't -- the only thing i can think of and it's the importance of the chairman, you have to go out and look at it and spend the time in the country because if we hadn't known of that would have come forward. you can just do analysis on people work because it would say dilapidated facility company to build it. well if it had just been renovated we are going to have to great dining facilities. >> it was also down at a time before the agreement between iraq and the u.s.. so as it@ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ i thank you all for your great work. i haven't been to iraq as many times as mr. shays but i am up around a dozen now. one of my jobs before i came to the congress i spent a lot of time on construction sites and have a construction engineering degree and i am surprised we get as much work done in iraq and afghanistan given the contract arrangemen

school and so on and they said well, we don't have an job like that but we of an opening in the cafeteria. when she came the guards in the front walk to re and said hello, governor hauer you because they were sure the guard was the governor and she was the wife. on wanted to write a book about the great triumph on the great defeat and the women at the bottom so we interviewed might researchers went out and with me we interviewed about 130 average women who hadn't been part of any great movement and talked about what their lives were like. and what the new. so on the top we had the e.r.a. and we revisited the women's liberation movement and which was so much fun to go back to. i remember the great glory moments and hideous moments but there were so many semi silly moments i have forgotten. one woman told me she was at antioch and wanted to go to the women's meeting so she walked in, she was a little freshman and they gave her a mirror and told her to take off her pants and examine her vagina and her neighbors that china to learn more about productive systems and get comfortable with one's

he says there's a recruiter in the cafeteria, why can't we show what the soldier's experiences are? and i think that what we find, however, given us -- is that when the government is covering something up, it ultimately gets out there. i mean, you see the case of the pentagon papers way before the internet this was when the u.s. government was in vietnam and the secretary of defense says, decides to commission a study saying why are we in vietnam? and that's the pentagon papers, which is sort of an interesting thing that the secretary of defense has to commission a study to find out why we're in the war. well, the pentagon papers got out. obama deciding not to release these torture photos, which was again i think not a great decision for free speech, those will get out. so i think that what we find is that government transparency is more important than anything else and that especial li given new technologies today, things will get out. so the government has an obligation to be more transparent. host: educated at brown university, liz has done several documentaries, including comba,

when we look at the worksite, we're engaging the employers that we cover to look at the cafeterias that they have. to make recommendations about what foods should be there, how they should subsidize the items that they s

do know that one of her first actions when she became secretary of labor was to desegregate the cafeteria at the labor department. we do know that she came from a family of strong abolitionists. none of her family fought in and the civil war, at a lot of the times people bought their way up. she is not a civil-rights leader in the way that eleanor roosevelt is and she backs away from some very contentious issues. to get other things done. so she was also for example a very strong supporter of the family limitation movement. that is very controversial, remains very controversial. in 1916 she is way of in front of that. by 1930 she never talks about it again. >> follow-up. no, nevermind. i am sorry. i lost it. >> i think we have one more question here. >> i also have the sense there were three or four more books behind the book that you wrote, but my question had to do on the international side. there is a very striking parallel to what is happening in england at this time with the bells, right? was there cross fertilization with the u.k.? >> absolutely. one of the things that is really int

when we look at the worksite, we're engaging the employers that we cover to look at the cafeterias that they have. to make recommendations about what foods should be there, how they should subsidize the items that they serve there. what kind of vending machines do they have in place? this is not about having a single bullet. this is about being very comprehensive in how you think about care. when we think about the community, we do things that are unusual for health insurance company. we were the major advocate for smoking cessation in hour state. we have beat tobacco, we took that money and plowed that back into taking the smoking rates down. we also do things like complete streets, where we advocate for sidewalks, bike paths, safe crossing guards, things that a health company would think about as opposed to perhaps an insurance company. : >> and back to the employer who is delivering that care. so it absolutely has a return, and it's absolutely critical. minnesota has a 17% smoking rate. the country has a 22% smoking rate. blue cross blue shield of minnesota has a 10.9% smoking rate.

they don't care about what happened on omaha beach, they care about what happened that week in the cafeteria. what happened between the captain of a football team and the cheerleader counts more than anything that happened between anthony and cleopatra long ago and that is just the nature of adolescence. what the internet does is empowered adolescence to increase those peer contacts, those in group fixations, the social life of one another, peer pressure 24/7. 24 hours a day they can be in touch with one another seven days a week. and they can improve their lives to contacts with themselves and shut out more and more the voices of adults, not to mention the tax of history and civics and foreign affairs. this is unprecedented. to be able to sit in your bedroom at midnight and have chats with six buddies and down the block in your city and another state, around the world. so that there is no and to appear to appear contact. that is a unique condition of our time. >> but how is this a bad thing? >> sure, kids will be kids and when i was 15 in years old i could have gone home and sat there at th

when we look at the worksite we are engaging the cafeteria's at the have to make recommendations about what food should be there, how they should subsidize the items they serve their. what kind of many machines to have in place. this is not about having a single bullet but is being comprehensive in how you think about care. and we think about the community we do things that are unusual for health insurance company. we were the major advocate for smoking cessation in our state. we beat tobacco and how that back into taking this smoking rates down. we do things like complete streets every advocate for sidewalks, bypass, a safe crossing guards and things that i held company would think about as opposed to an insurance company. when you look at the social determinants of how these things that are driving cost. this is social connectedness, this is how people think about child development before the age of five. are foundation has been actively involved in this work for over 20 years. this is an imprint distinctive about how we think about health care. the next slide is to shoot it's not ea

he's using, saying you have a responsibility -- and he also tossed me, by the way, even in their cafeteria where they have partially subsidized company food during the lunch hours, just as an example, he said we will still serve unhealthy things. we'll still serve the fried unhealthy food, but we charge much, much more for it. once again, trying to induce the behavior to take a healthy alternative. and so i think what steve bird, the c.e.o. of safeway, has suggested represents something that we need consider as we write our health care legislation. there is another element that was brought to my attention recently and i think has been brought to the president's attention and members of 9 congress and that is -- and members of the congress and that is a new yorker article wrind by atua garndi of harvard. and he visited two knowns texas and wondered -- two towns in texas and wondered why in one city you have the highest costs per capita for health care and why is one city just average. what has caused this? and he has a lot of very interesting conclusions, especially about overutilization in