The trip and we are joined by adam, a tree reporter with politico f adam, what would account for Mission Accomplished for the president at the end of this trip. Guest i think it is hard to say, i guess. The president when he looks at trade issues and when his name is overarching the goal is to reduce the us trade deficit with a bunch of these countries. That is than his Main Objective going back to nafta and renegotiating that and reopening the trade deal with south korea and thenn dealing with china on various fronts. I think inn an ideal world we would see possible agreements and announcements that would move toward that objective. Host that is where america was on the trade the last time these asian nations the President Trump and the last time an american president visited them and how that has changed in the first ten months of the trump administration. Guest under the Previous Administration, under president obama, therest was this permit o asia and that was the Transpacific Partnership which was 12 countries in total and the goal of that was to reshape the trading rules in that region and have a buffer against china. That has changed and president is one of the first things he did in office was take the us offer that treating arrangements. He looks at bilateral trade deals as more valuable in his deal and he thanks the us can exert its negotiating leverage, develop better relationships with countries through that to those arrangements and theres a strong case also been made for regional deals as you set a regional platform and regional set of rules when youre dealing with china in the Previous Administration thought that was important to have a set of rules governing intellectual property protectionon and everything on trade enforcement that would keep china in check. Host what is the trade picture look like right now among the other 11 members of the tpp now in this several months postth tpp . Guest with the leadership of japan they simultaneously are continuing to tpp amongst themselves without the us. They are trying to reach a final agreement that would put the deal in the force without the us and theyre doing it in a way that would allow the earth to come back effortlessly or without so much effort in the future so they are suspending some of the concessions that were made at the us request and they been trying to have an announcement and is still in question whether they will have something toin announce that the upcoming aipacng meeting in vietnam which the president will attend. If you want to address those trade issues that were talking about, the lines are open. Democrats 202 4088000. You were just talking about what the other 11 tpp countries are doing and have we in the meantime post tpp done any of these bilateral deals completed any of them with those 11 countries and where arere we in the state of those negotiations with the president would like to see . Guest i think the policy right now seems to be focused on revisiting our current trade relationships and in the and ministration view tryingth to me those relationships more fair and balanced. That includes reopening the nafta talks with canada and mexicoki and that includes takig south korea back to the table to amend that deal. We are really looking back at our current deals and the president has said he wants to pursue these bilateralal deals t theres been no publicly major moves towards opening or preparing for formal negotiations with anyin of those other countries. Host for visual learners here is a chart on the trade picture with asian country, us imports about 985 billion worth of imports from Asian Countries on an annual basis, experts to asia 452 billion and you can see the us is the largest trade deficit with china at 347 billion in japan at 69 million, vietnam 32 million, south korea 28 billion and so on down the chart. You can see adam, President Trump is getting tough on some countries that arent playing by International Trade rules, t countries that dump products on us markets and countries that manipulate their currency. Is he doing any of that in this trip to asia with the countries will be visiting . Guest weve seen actions starting the process of that and weve seen a pretty active number of cases being filed at the Commerce Department against unfair down pain and unfair subsidiaries but we havent really seen an actual action yet and that may be for a variety of reasons with north korea in the region getting china to cooperate on that. He started anti investigation io specifically into china and its intellectual property protections and Technology Transfer and power fees under section 301 of the trade act of 1974 and that is a pretty serious action toe take and tht investigation will, i think, most people see it as resulting as a trade action against china. Also, starting an investigation into imports of steel and aluminum and based on the National Security reasons so that could result and using companies emboldened because Domestic Companies will file more serious trade actions with the International Trade commission, Global Safeguard investigation and youve seen it on solar panel and washing machines and those will be handed off to the president to make a decision, as well. Host he is in south korea and this was him earlier today briefly talking about some of theth trade issues that he was discussing with the leaders of south korea. We love to do much more business with south korea. They will order m a lot more but the good news is you will be ordering. Weve already worked on that and through our representatives the amount of equipment and things that youpm will be ordering from the United States will be substantially increased and therefore will ring in the trade deficit way down. This is important to our people. We have trade deficit with numerous countries that we dont want to have and were pretty that very much. What you are getting is host what equipment specifically is the president talking about in south korea . Guest and hes talking about military credit. Im not familiar with the specific transactions but genuinely thats in line with there president s view that havg countries by more American Goods is the way to reduce that trade deficit and combining that with a strong enforcement agenda which could to stop or halt restricts hi imports. He made the same point in japan with japan buying military hardware from the us. Host lets take a few calls. Adam with political, fort lauderdale, florida, line for democrats. Good morning. Caller good morning. I too do not like the trade deficit. We invented televisions and not one is made in the United States and i dont believe it is correct to characterize the United States people as only capable of making military equipment. If we invented it itar should be made here, period. Not used in some kind of political game of trade. Trade is meantbu to be what you cannot make for yourself, you can buy from someone else. It works on that principal and no onees tries to run around and what someone else is very good at making. Host what if you could get those products cheaper from another country . Caller yeah, but you cause a global session and didnt you especially when you combine it with the federal law that basically says your currency is worth less and less every single year. You caused a global recession. Wake up. Host adam, jump in on that. Guest i think that is at the root of the overall struggle between this administration, America First approached and the more globalist approach. I think most people are supportive of open and free trade and they see this as a very globally connected world now and supply chain reach across borders and see that as something we cant really control and we have to manage but then you have the president s view of America First and pursuing policies that make sure jobs come back to the us reduce the trade deficit so its part of the internal debate global versus America First and i think that the debate that we will continue to have. Host independent, from new york. Good morning. Caller i would like to say that havingou the tpp makes it globalist government steroids. We need to protect trade in america and we need to keep our products here. Also, concerning military hardware we arere advancing at a much rapid pace in terms of military hardware and technology. This will eventually lead to a war that we cannot fight against possibly robots we do not know what to say there. It eventually will come down to war among people and robots and we are in danger of making the human race go extinct. Guest print. Host focus on that first part if you would. When he was o talking about trae and products made here in america. Where are we on the renegotiation of nafta . Guest right now the us has put forward a number of pretty serious proposals, controversial proposals, that would implement this overall vision of America First and that includes tightening rules for automobile manufacturing and putting a that would automatically sunset this trade deal every five years unless the countries agree that its working fore them so putting soe serious controversy oh proposals and questions and challenge to the trade deal and mexico and canada have been trying i think theyre very challenged by these proposals and i think a lot ofof people think that they will have a hard time accepting these findings compromise on these proposals. So, yeah, i would say that right now people are pretty 5050 halfway optimistic on this deal and surviving and the president has talked about using his authority to withdraw from the deal as a way to press the two countries to agree to their demands but the us is has an unyielding approach to these negotiations and its anyones guess on whether they will compromise on what theyve already proposed. Host a couple minutes left. Will try to get his many calls. Ohio, larry, good morning line for independent. Caller good morning. I own a company that manufactures the highest quality nonperishable food in the world with 16 International Buyers a couple of years ago. I couldnt sell anything after offering major discounts. Main reason for that is because the dollar is strong. Foreign currency was putting our major banks and converted to dollars is discounted that process the dollar to be high compared to other currencies. What we need is a Market Access charge that will charge more currency that would destroy these countries from bringing their currency to this country and training for dollars to get their dollar down to a more level. The other thing is they the lies of globalism [inaudible] the most sacred nation in chinas 1998 was the backbreaker. Ever since in the trade deficit driving the federal deficit. [inaudible] this is paralleled right down the tube and weve got to do something about that in the two things i can think of is i dont think it will be [inaudible] will be countable we have to have the Market Access charge to bring the dollar down and get our tax rate down to 1520 and get those committees back here. Weve got a lot of misery and theres a lot of underemployment and i went to the numbers in the trade deficit really sucks of the demand for about 70 million jobs in this country and thats the biggest part of that 94 million [inaudible] it makes our economy too small to support the federal government and our running federal deficits. The trade deficit sucks about half aal trillion dollars every year out of irvings. Guest the currency question has been a big one and it was something that the Previous Administration tried to address in the tpp but it didnt really set up a binding, enforceable mechanism to hold countries at task for manipulating or devaluing their currency. Especially with the us automakers and other sectors have really sort of been in the forefront because they feel is being in Foreign Countries and undercutting the value of their automobiles here because of the currency difference. You saw the President Trump promise during the campaign to hold china accountable and that he would label a currency manipulator and the Treasury Department has an annualar repot that they put out doing so but, you know, he is backed up with that and i think maybe he is holding that in his pocket as a tool but its a problem that people have talked a lot about and i think it is hard for the us to regulate on that because we have our own monetary policies so the Treasury Department especially is very careful about talking about supporting holding other countries accountable for fear that if we were to need to have some very dramatic military policy in our economy that we wouldnt want to be prevented from doing that. Host last call. Lawrence from washington dc, line for democrats. Caller good morning. My comment simply is a couple of questions. Number one, west didnt start ts real International Trade until Richard Nixon went to china and opened the trade and what i thought americans did with fake manufacturers and bigname money people went to china and said to get a lot of products made an ad and in excess price have them shipped back to americans and at that point what happened was, i believe, if im correct is that then china started putting in japan because we dropped up and down lower than china and then the americans decided we can get aa lot of things for last. Host we are running out of time. What is your question . Caller im just trying to get answers for the people listening. You make it sound like everyone is taking america but weve got big businessmen that started aln of this trend. In auto manufacturing. Host adam, you want to take it up. Et guest that is true. Companies have gone to labor markets where they p can produce more cheaply and that has been made possible by technology, by transportation and in our internet interconnect world is much g more connected and that s been what has been happening and i guess some people would argue that the trade policies have been a response to that but theres the argument that that wouldve happened anyway based on evolving economy and the evolving world of technology and that tpp, Obama Administration was a way to keep that in check and put rules on labor and environment protections that would they use the word, level the playing field, so, i think in a way youre seeing this administration take that problem also seriously but in a much different approach, much more defensive and America First approached. Host adam writes about it as a trade reporter for politico. Can see his work at politico. Com. Thank you so much. The u. S. 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In 1979, cspan was created as a Public Service by americas Cable Television companies and is brought to you today by your cable or satellite provider. A discussion now on Sexual Harassment and legislative efforts to combat it from todays washington journal this is about half hour. Democrat from california, jackie spears, member of the intelligent and Armed Service committee and author of a new legislation aimed at strengthening rules regarding Sexual Harassment in the halls of congress and on capitol hill. Why does Congress Need to look in the mirror on this issue . Guest because it has, in many respects, become an enabler of persons who engage in Sexual Harassment. I say that because, first of all, there is no requirement that members and staff take Sexual Harassment training. There is aen requirement to take ethics training but not Sexual Harassment training. Then, if you do complain it is to an office that no one knows about. The office of compliance. It is really constructed in such a way that it is there to protect the perpetrator and not there to protect the victim. Host for folks unfamiliar with how capital works, why is the structure of how this is set up different from the rest of the federal government what they might see in their own workplaces . Guest there is a requirement in the rest of government for Sexual Harassment training. There are officers an equal opportunity that yout can go to for support and here in congress we have a patchwork that is inappropriate. Ill give you an example. First of all, interns and fellows have nowhere to go and yet they are, in many respects, the most vulnerable. Ifd you do have a complaint go o the office of compliance and they are you are given up one month in which you are supposed to providepo legal counsel. It is typically one section and they tell you the ropes. Then if you agree to move forward you sign a nondisclosure agreement in perpetuity and then you go into mediation. In mediation theres a mediator, there is you and there is the house of representatives general counsel representing the perpetrator. In the most recent case in which i talked to one of the victims he was trashed by the House Counsel saying you will never work here again if you move forward with this using intimidation and after that mediation was completed then you have one month enough. In that period of time you have to work in that environment. It is an unsustainable and indefensible program. Host you mention your conversation with one of the victims but this is an issue that you experience personally on capitol hill and you talked about. Can you explain . Guest when i was a staffer back in the early 70s the chief of staff in the office in which i worked one day to me and we were alone in the office and he took my face, held my face, kissed me and stuck his tongue in my mouth. I recoiled and i panicked and i made sure that i was never in a room alone with him again. Back in the 70s we hadnt coined the term Sexual Harassment. The courts had not determined that it was a violation of title vii, Civil Rights Act. So, it was not nearly as undefined as it is today, nor in many respects is it recognized back then as being a conduct that should be punished, we clearly appreciate that today. Host do you get a sense of the problem on capitol hill is as prevalent today as it was back then . Guest it is and probably more so. Host why . Guest because we have a system in place now which the perpetrator is never doubted, the perpetrator never pays ason price, the cost of any settlement is taken out of the us treasury and all of us as taxpayers pick up the tab. The members reimbursement allowance which is the way we actually run our office is in impacted by it. Its a get out of jail free card for those perpetrators. Host so how would your legislation change the system to track. Guest there are number things we are recommending. One bill require members and staff to have Sexual Harassment training, mandatory every year. The on that the second bill will provide a means by which you do not have to sign a nondisclosure agreement and there will be a special Victims Counsel available to the victim to support and represent the victim. You will not be forced to go through mediation and when you look at most Sexual Harassment cases you either go to the media or file a lawsuit. On capitol hill you cannot do either. Host were talking with congresswomanar jackie spear frm california. She has a new legislation dealing with Sexual Harassment on capitol hill and you can call in with your questions, comments. Its 2,027,488,000 phone for women to call in. Shall be with us for about the next half hour or so and as you introduces legislation to come out with this story of your own experience can you talk to the reaction youve seen and heard especially from other female lawmakers . Guest a number of female lawmakers have come to me and said they had been sexually harassed by colleagues. Weve got to find a way to deal with that certainly but very concerned with the staffers because unlike the staffers, female members of congress, still have a job. Staffers oftentimes are blackballed and i had one woman say to me that im a single mother with the young child and i cant lose this job so she has not come forward. Host how does one become blackballed on capitol hill . Blame for folks who dont know how this works. Guest its gossip now. If it becomes known that you have filed the Sexual Harassment complaint there is a likelihood that you will not be hired in another office for fear that you are going to look for a means to create trouble. Most people, men and women, do not even file complaints. Three quarters of those were sexually harassed in society never even file a complaint. If you are filing a complaint its a fairly egregious situation. Host how has this been received from Health Leadership . Guest they are looking at it. Im going to be testify next week in the house and ministration committee on the legislation and on what ive learned and talking to so many staffers on capitol hill. The great fear that they have coming forward. Host one comment as weve been having this conversation, vivian writes and that we need people in congress were honest. We have liars in congress now and what happened to truth in congress. Guest what happened to turn in congress question what happened to truth in the White House Press mark is a commodity that seems to be somewhat disposable. I think we are not held accountable as we should be. I serve on the House Intelligence Committee and we caught the number of people who under oath have not told the truth and that is a felony. You canat be charged and convicd and serve up to five years in prison but somehow not telling the truth is seen as an acceptable manner. And its not support glenn in california, good morning. Caller im sorry to hear what happened to you when you are in your younger years but this happened to my niece in lancaster, california and legally were not a stationary city where like you live so an illegal alien came into her classroom and sexually assaulted her and to of her other kids in an elementary school. You live in a centricity, how many undocumented people areoc being human traffickers in your city in San Francisco as sex slaves. If you are protecting them host give you a chance to respond. Guest personal, i dont condone undocumented residences who commit crimes. Voted for the legislation when it came up in the house. I think if someone is undocumented and commits a crime they dont have a right to be here and we have a responsibility to deport them. As to the situation with your knees has found herself in, i hope that she is filing a complaint with the District Attorney in her community because that kind of conduct is a felony and it should be prosecuted. Host isabella in the Briarcliff Manor in new york. The morning. Caller yes, hello. Thank you for taking my call. I was wondering about this legislation thatin you want to have in terms of the people on capitol hill. With the perpetrators name actually be revealed because i find that part of the problem with the government has been that, like as you said, they always want you to sign a nondisclosure agreement and would they be treated as a regular person. Guest they are regular people and they should be treated like regular people. Thats why one of the positions would be provided that you do not have to sign a nondisclosure agreement which would then allow you too speak up. Host isabella, is the legal side of the something that your personal experience with. Caller well, yes, unfortunately. Yes. That is why i was hoping that that would be the case because in a lot of situations that unfortunately women found themselves in and certainly in the age would be the 70s and 80s you had to find nondisclosure agreement and you werent allowed to have an attorney and basically sounded a lot like what the congressman just saide which is that you pt in a room or put in a room with an arbitrator and who knows how good that person was and an attorney for the other side and you are pummeled. You are embarrassed and it was disgusting. After that situation you didnt even want to be in the industry that you are wanting to work in. You wanted to run and that is the worst thing because you are the one feeling dirty and youre the one who feels less than and they are the ones that backed you up into a corner, literally. They did despicable things to you one thank you for sharing your story, isabella. Guest isabella, what you described is precisely why a victim survivor actually explained to me just last week. Congress is in the dark ages in terms of dealing with this iss issue. If you look at the private sector it is just not tolerated in most areas and honestly hollywood being one of the exceptions but the media has been outed as well and we are in a Tipping Point and thats the good news because read a Tipping Point where now we can really address this in a manner that is thoughtful and responsible and hold everybody accountable. Host is that why you decided to introduce this meditation now . Guest yes, i introduced it in 2014 and could evenn get a hearing on the rules committee to make it in order to take up on the house floor. Those times have changed and im grateful for. Host lisa, waverley, new york, go ahead. Caller my comment is Sexual Harassment has been around for years. It happens when you are young in school and it continues while you are getting jobs as you get older. It doesnt matter. You can go out and you can be dressed in a turtleneck and bib overalls, you can be dressed from head to toe and someone is going to harass you. We need to take our kids better. Host lisa, thanks for the call. Ill let jackie jump in. Guest your comment about dress is an interesting one because one of the survivors i talked to recently said that she makes a point of testing very conservatively and it still happens. It is an issue of power and being able to exert it over otherst that, i think, needs to be addressed. Training is a key component in this. It really is important. Host what would the training be like onpi capitol hill . What are you asking for in a culture of very powerful people on capitol hill . Guest there is ang training module which could do online right now. I would want to see that change. It speaks more about how you can get around the system and how you can make the system work for you and i think we need some more in person training. I think roleplaying helps people appreciate what the boundaries arebo to conduct that is comfortable in an audi offict one that does not invade a privacy or becomes sexually heated. Host michelle, houston, texas, go ahead. Caller hello. Id like to know if going into your bill possibly workplace billing could be included because aspl you keep talking about the intimidation and the harassment coming through people having power over people i think that Workplace Bullying is an intro to Sexual Harassment if those people continue to receive around that individual. What do you think about putting that in the bill . Guest Sexual Harassment is defined as either a quid pro quo those remaining to have a job or ill take care of you or defined as a hostile Work Environment. Under the hostile Work Environment that could be addressedr and again it is something that everyone has the right under the Civil Rights Act to have a workplace in which they can conduct their business and not be either hostilely treated or have a sexual attack or approach me to them. I would also say Sexual Harassment oftentimes begets Sexual Assault and that is something that we need to be very serious about addressing because one can move into something that is, in fact, a violent felony. Host in illinois, good morning. Caller good morning. I have a question for you, jackie. Im assuming you are a lawyer. Guest i am. Im a recovering one but yes. Caller good for you. Id like to give you a little advice. Maybe you could have more credibility when you are talking earlier in the few people that called and picked up on the same line which you refer to the person that was accused as the perpetrator and you refer to the person doing the accusing as the victim. That really shouldnt be the language used until theres an actual investigation. You would have more credibility if use the proper terms. Thank you. Guest all right. I have no comment to make about that. I see someone who is sexually harassed and is aas staff member as being a perpetrator. Host mary is in auburn, new york. The morning. Caller i would like to ask jackie a question about Sexual Harassment. What happens when your party allows i males into the womens bathrooms and locker rooms . These males still have their parts and i know that from looking at bruce jenner, for example, he was married, father children and they still can use these parts against women. I would like to hear your comments on that to your question has to do with persons who are transgender and we are talking about a situation, whether Sexual Harassment in the workplace, so i actually am supportive of transgenders. They represent a percentage of the population that should not be discriminated against and as to theyti are using the bathroom in which they identify with i think thats appropriate. Host jackie spears from california is with us for the next ten or 15 minutes and continuing to talk about her legislation. I also want to get your reaction to the shooting in texas on sunday. Last year we came to your office and focused on a display outside of your office the bases on the basis of gun violence and an issue important to you. Do you think anything changes after this latest shooting in this church in texas. Guest im looking across at the capital with the flag at half staff and im realizing that that will become permanent if we dont do something that we leave this discussion to go live to capitol hill to hear from Senate Members as they returning from their party lunches. Good afternoon, everyone. As you know, we are moving forward on tax reform here in the senate. The finance committee will be rolling out their proposal, the starting place, what we call the germans market at the end of the week. The public can take a look at it and move toward markup next week. This week we are confirming once again a number of administration positions that frankly should have been confirmed but we are hoping that we are getting close to getting a better place with the democrats on confirming executive branch appointments to the administration. Amid the controversies that surround the Second Amendment to the constitution there are areas of consensus and that has to do with the background check system, keeping guns out of the hands of people with mental illness, convicted felons, people who commit Domestic Violence, tragically, we saw the system to fail and 26 people are now dead and 20 more wounded as a result of the tragedy that occurred in texas this last sunday. We intend to work with colleagues in the administration to come up with legislation that will both ensure the fact that the federal government, particularly the timing of the fence, and military princes comply with the law and upload this information to the human uniform code of military justice proceedings. That all of those would be uploaded into the background database but also come up with an additional set of carrots and sticks where necessary to instead by the states to likewise comply with the law and upload those results into the background databases because when the shooter or the gun purchaser like this individual lies about their background he lied about the fact that he had a felony conviction and lied about the fact that he had been convicted of a crime of Domestic Violence then the only way to catch them is through the background database, the next system and i believe there is an opportunity for us here to work on a bipartisan basis to come up with a way to address this one consensus solution to a very real problem which may well have prevented the outcome we thought current in texas last monday. As we approach veterans day one of the areas where the congress spend most successful for legislation that affect veterans, chairman isaacson and many here have led the way on that. The first bill that we passed was the higher that the act, secretary acosta, department of labor are going to be coming out real soon with a criteria for employers, all employers like to talk about hiring beth and this will give it away to recognize what employers do to hire vets, to promote that and to recognize the skills that veterans learn while they are serving. We had another piece of legislation that made it more safe to be a whistleblower and at the same time it made it possible for the Veterans Administration to fire people who are doing their job. More education benefits, facility and in that they built we recognized the lifelong struggle that people have had like our love hartwell in st. Louis who was part of a mustard gas experiment in world war ii. It took a long time for him to get his Health Concerns recognized because of that and there is some recognition and competition, not previously there. The claims process has been improved. The veterans price issue in healthcare expanded and funded and it turns out that veterans wanted more help her choice than even the congress hadnt waited and so there are more ways for them to have those choices and more ways for those choices to be paid for. At a time when we need to recognize that veterans who secure the freedom and freedom of those and stand up for the freedom we have and set the example for those in the world for a free society and we are grateful to them on veterans day but more importantly over and over again this Year Congress passed bills that have been signed into law the make a real difference for veterans to act as you know, the president is now several days into a very important visit to asia and this is one of the most significant and lengthy visits to asia by a us president and this is incredibly important for an open strategy and an opportunity like this do not come around very often to grow our trade relationships in a region of the world that is home to some of the largest standing armies around the world and home to a majority of our mutual defense agreements that is home to a significant portion of our tra trade. I had the opportunity last week to visit with president prior to his visit to asia where he laid out the things he would be talking about when it comes to applying maximum pressure to korea, strengthening our trade relations with korea and japan, making to the train is doing more to the pressure on north korea to bring up peaceful dino causation about and i also talk about our effort to pass legislation that i will be introducing called the is a reinsurance act that focuses on three things Economic Opportunity in asia, Security Partnership in asia, as well is the important of democracy and rule of law and human rights opportunities to partner in asia. Encourage the president is on this visit and things seem to be going very well and look forward to additional outcomes over the next several days. Have you spoken with senator paul and any sense on how long he will be out in the severity of his injuries were smart. I did. It was quite an experience. He was literally as you read or may have reported slammed into by a neighbor and he has five either broken or cracked ribs and said it really hurt and he is on the mend and we expect him back next week and back in the saddle. [inaudible] the that contradict what you fought for the last ten years smart. There are all kinds of reports that altered the proposals. On the senate side we have not laid out our proposal yet. You know the budget that the 1. 5 trillion gap would be close if we had only four times 1 growth over the next ten years. Which is a really modest production of what growth would be. We fully anticipate this text puzzle. It will be in the end revenue neutral and is not a revenue gain or connect the current hospital touches on repeal further amendment but as it stands now [inaudible] do you think the bill will repeal the amendment and are there any popup preserving the child adoption tax credit . I have no comment about the hospital. We will let them work their way through the process and as i indicated the Senate Proposal will be out there for all of you to look at on friday. [inaudible] can you talk about where the request is going and how much you expect there to be for florida, and any update smart. We anticipate another supplemental request and senator cornyn is right in the middle that because the state was so severely affected by it. Obviously, it would be more money for florida and texas and puerto rico. John just might want to add anything else but mark. [inaudible] it is currently the law that the federal government needs to upload these convictions for Domestic Violence, felonies into the federal bureau of investigation database that searches when people attempt to purchase firearms but when the federal government doesnt do this it is reported that the air force simply through interventions, human error or somewhere failed to do it then there is nothing there to contradict the misrepresentation by the purchaser when they go to buymc it. We leave these remarks to return to live coverage of the senate here on cspan2 fficer wt objection. Mr. Mccain mr. President , in recent months the United States and Coalition Forces have achieved major gains against isis in iraq and syria. U. S. Coalition partners have liberated the capital of raqqa and syria, the pocket of hawija in Northern Iraq and just days ago the border town of alkine in western iraq. The socalled caliphate the terrorists claimed would overrun the middle east is n
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