secretary sibelius' already mentioned some of the facts. we have no limits on caps that effect women more than men. by 2014 the annual cap will be gone on insurance policies. we talk about pre-existing conditions. women who have been discriminated against are really the poster children for why we needed to eliminate pre-existing conditions. that will end in 2014. higher premiums just because they are women, that will end. on august 1 tomorrow, there are many provisions -- when they have to give value for the premium dollar, that takes effect on august 1. women are going to benefit from that provision. i am proud of the preventive health services you have read about. senator mikulski was responsible for the amendment we put into law. it will give women the preventive health care services they need without copayment. this is an important day as we continue to make progress in america to provide quality affordable health care to all people in the nation. i am proud to be on senator mikulski's team. >> thank you. tomorrow august 1 is a great da

secretary sibelius' already mentioned some of the facts. we have no limits on caps that effect women more than men. by 2014 the annual cap will be gone on insurance policies. we talk about pre-existing conditions. women who have been discriminated against are really the poster children for why we needed to eliminate pre-existing conditions. that will end in 2014. higher premiums just because they are women, that will end. on august 1 tomorrow, there are many provisions -- when they have to give value for the premium dollar that takes effect on august 1. women are going to benefit from that provision. i am proud of the preventive health services you have read about. senator mikulski was responsible for the amendment we put into law. it will give women the preventive health care services they need without copayment. this is an important day as we continue to make progress in america to provide quality affordable health care to all people in the nation. i am proud to be on senator mikulski's team. >> thank you. tomorrow august 1 is a great day

we heard from health and human services secretary kathleen sibelius last night. now we will hear from the attorney general this morning and secretary duncan this afternoon. but first it is my job to introduce melodee hanes, acting administrator for juvenile justice delinquency prevention which has been an excellent partner for the federal partners. helping as hosts web seminars and being very supportive in all the work we have done. melodee hanes's work includes deputy attorney in yellowstone county attorney's office prosecuting child abuse, sexual assault and homicide cases and assistant county attorney in the polk county, iowa attorney's office and major felony crimes. she is a great partner and i am pleased to welcome her. please help me welcome melodee hanes. [applause] >> good morning. you are awake. good. thanks for the introduction. i am melodee hanes leaders electing administrator of the office of juvenile justice and delinquency prevention known as ojjdp at the department of justice and i am delighted to be here today. i just want to thank all of you so

the race to the top growth learning challenge and this is an initiative that secretary duncan and sibelius have worked to shape that. now we have nine states that are moving forward with plans to establish high standards of quality and a rating system for all other programs so that regardless of where children's -- children spend time, we know that there are opportunities for them to move forward, to participate in higher quality programs and ultimately focus on doing more to expand outcomes to close the school readiness gap. we have nine states that have persisted in the that were announced just last december. go be another additional five states that will take on this race to the top early learning challenge act. by the end of this year. and begin to move forward with that state level reform that is so needed. because in early childhood education we are really just decades behind our k-12 and higher education students in terms of spring to change an opportunity that her kids need to exceed. in k-12 reform are trying to do more to really open the doors of opportunity by raising expectatio

. >> health and human services secretary kathleen sibelius was also one of the speaker's comments on the end of the age at the travel down in the u.s. that made it possible to hold the conference in washington and talked about providing health care and medication for hiv / aids patients. this is 20 minutes. >> good evening, everyone. i want to greet my fellow speakers, delegates, and colleagues, friends. on behalf of president obama here tonight is with the survivors and family and community in aurora, i am so pleased to welcome the international aids conference back to the united states. [applause] and i am particularly proud to be part of an administration that respects and celebrates diversity warm, not just in words, but the people appointed to high positions. i want to give a special welcome to those living with hiv/aids who have traveled here from around the world. as has been said over and over, the hiv entry ban was a bad policy based on salty science that ran contrary to america's deepest values, and we are so proud that the obama administration overturned it and we are prou