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Purposes that continually crown our years with goodness. Today, enable our lawmakers to see with faiths eyes each blessing that comes disguised as adversity and each temptation that hides beneath the mask of prosperity. Make them grateful for disasters averted and advancements made. Lord let your love touch our world because of their labors, as you make the ambassadors of your purposes. Protect our senators and teach them your paths. Prosper the work of their hands, as you keep them from stumbling or slipping. We pray in your great name. Amen. The presiding officer please join me in reciting t...

Any further debate . Very briefly. It is hard to understand how having cast the votes in the senate on Human Trafficking and then say that has a negotiating objective, our own country that puts out a trafficking persons report and labels countries by tiers of how good to how bad they are that some of the worst offenders should get access to our market. Now somebody can get off the tier three provision by cleaning up their act and then they are eligible. But i dont understand how it is a problem to make that determination and make that one of our negotiating objectives. We reached an agreement ...

The committee is considering a proposal to reauthorize the trade facilitation is your is your microphone on . The trade facilitation and trade enforcement functions of the United States customs and Border Protection and other agencies, seven titles. Title i considers the trade trade, facilitation and Enforcement Mission of cbp. The import health, and safety mission. The import related protections of intellectual Property Rights missions. Title v establishes new requirements for cbp to combat evasion and antidumping and countervailing duty orders. Additional trade enforcement intellectual Prope...

In income. So instead of standing in the corner and figuring out how to bring a trade bill to the floor they ought to be fixing equal pay for equal work, they ought to be fixing Student Loans for our students, they ought to be passing a highway bill, they ought to be increasing the minimum wage, and they ought to deal with currency fairness because our trading partners, they play with their currency in order to push forward their products. But oh, no. That is not on the agenda. We could have an agenda for a vibrant middle class but instead of that, we are moving toward a trade bill. Now, i kno...

Going to happen. So that would be kind of my report. I appreciate. I appreciate. Thank you very much. A quick question because i no you have so many. Since the congress eliminated earmarks on special projects projects that are essential to being authorized and approved come back to allowing those type of endeavors . I think that what happened with the earmark debate is it got out of hand numerically and they got out of and in substance, board it really is traditionally when shuster held the gavel they would use of the individual members of the house. Already heard from mayors and county commis...