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Morning after morning, we continue to receive your new mercies. Lord, sustain our lawmakers with your unfailing love that is as high as the heavens. May our senators know that in everything you continue to work for the good of those who love you, who are called according to your purpose for them. Pour out upon our legislators the riches of your mercy so that they may stay steadfast in faith. Eternal god, hear us as we pray. We need stronger hearts, greater faith, and clearer perception. We pray in your mighty name. Amen. The president pro tempore amen. Please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Mr. Grassley mr. President . The presiding officer the senator from iowa. Mr. Grassley i ask to speak for one minute in morning business. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Grassley there is a story that
Minute. Mr. Hoyer this vote today, madam speaker, is a reminder was even while the house working on a serious matter regarding the president s abuses of ity for office, we are still working hard to deliver on our promises the American People to focus on economic opportunity. Nd in this instance, we are working together. The usmca agreement before us is vast improvement over the first version shown to us by team. Ent trump and his we worked together. That now includes critically mportant changes offered by democratic members in order to ensure that its enforcement stronger, that a protects American Workers, and that it protects American Workers and Lowers Health costs prescription costs. This will remove the uncertainty created by the tariff policies pursued by the president. I am glad that our House Democratic working group was new provisions to ensure that americas trading uphold the rights of orkers to unionize and bargain collectively. I am glad this agreement includes strong, Rapid
River access or waterway for bulk vessels that transports soybean and corn from the pompous farm belt to the south atlantic you know of David Ricardo who is the contemporary about of talked about comparative advantage and here a comparative advantage speaking if this river which would run through the grain belt and give argentina away to transport grain and give them a leg up over brazil and the u. S. That has to spend a lot of money moving the grain in the culture to the to railtrack or whatever and so this is a member could be a game changer the british of the Industrial Revolution do the canal system they gave them the ability to move stuff around. England waterways so this could be a huge game changer it is just like the yes it is there china sees the theyre going to monetize the asset theyre stepping away from the u. S. The u. S. And america are in this the u. S. And china are in a trade war and so its. And its like ok we dont we dont need to look that way we can go to argentina y
This is the kaiser report our of one is there is argentina so many head of. This country for can rock stars yes were going to talk about some of the opportunities that have been taken over the last few months or years and you know it fits into this theme that weve covered over the past few years which is that as soon as the u. S. Used the u. S. Dollar and in particular swift as a financial weapon alternatives emerged and thus said in the end of the power of empire this is happened throughout history hubris often sinks an empire when they become a bully and so were going to look at what a story about china china working with a Dutch Company by the way here this is when the u. S. Lapped all those tariffs on agricultural goods and all sorts of goods that china retaliated by stopping all imports of sawrey being products and of course argentina is a big producer of that so there chinas pivoting and having to really develop and build infrastructure in countries that they want to do business