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[background noises] the ways and Means Committee will now come to order. Good morning, today we will consider the historic u. S. Mca transforming agreement that creates a new High Water Mark u. S. Trade deals moving forward. The implementing bill before us is the result of many months of negotiations and indeed more than a year between House Democrats and the ambassador robert who worked with us honorably every time we met. And im very proud of the outcome of that we have reached. When we assume the majority this year, we were asked to consider a renegotiated nafta that had structural flaws in a number of areas including enforcements, labor rights, the environment, and access to medicines. Let me start with enforcement. Which was the crux of this agreement. As ive noted many times over the past year, i did not vote for the original nafta, the chief reason was a lack of enforceability. In the past 25 years, weve seen the shortcoming of the original agreements, much of which comes down t
Speak the ways and Means Committee will now come to order good morning we will consort considered a historic usmca the high watermark with trade deals moving forward it is the result of more than one year House Democrats and the ambassador light heiser who worked with us every time we met. Im very proud of the outcome we have reached. When we assume the majority this year we were asked to consider a renegotiated nafta in a number of areas including enforcement the environment and access to medicines that we start with enforcement as noted many times i did not vote for the original nafta and the chief reason was the lack of enforceability. The past 25 years we have seen the shortcoming much of which comes down to lack of enforcement in my view the improvements to the usmca finally makes the agreement enforceable n by preventing a country to block a nation dispute settlement attempt. Nafta has been symbolic and over 25 years there have been 39 petitions filed with zero enforcement action
Have a jampacked show for you on making money. Charles President Trump is about to hold meeting with Small Businesses this as Consumer Sentiment solid in november, unemployment to 50year low as we add 250,000 jobs to the economy. John, i think theres like 70 official folks, no one was close to the number, how can it be so much better than everyone thought . Amazing number. You have to be shocked, in manufacturing, if you take out the return of striking gm workers, 12,000, hefty increase, very large increases, leisure and hospitality, those gains in leisure and hospitality include spending at restaurants tell us that discretionary Consumer Spend asking still doing quite well and you add this altogether we now know that the u. S. Economy is distance from a recession. Charles yeah, i think the r word, you know, i dont think it should have ever come up to be quite honest with you in the first police but certainly i dont see economists talking about that now, you get to a certain point wher