[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
On which the yeas and nays are ordered. The clerk will report the title of the resolution. The clerk house calendar number 32 House Resolution 460. Resolution providing for consideration of the bill h. R. 2722 to protect elections for Public Office by providing Financial Support and enhanced security for the infrastructure used to carry out such elections around for other purposes. Waiving a requirement of clause 6a of rule 13 with respect to consideration of certain rules reported from the committee on rules and providing for consideration of bill h. R. 3351 making appropriations for Financial Services and general government for the fiscal year ending september 30, 2020, and for other purposes. The speaker pro tempore the question is on ordering the previous question. Members will record their votes by electronic device. This is a 15minute vote. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc. , in cooperation with the United States house of representatives. Any us
And in your day planner, this is what you can expect. The highs wont do much. Well see temperatures in the upper 20s this afternoon. A little bit of sunshine and more so clouds. Kristen. And some slick spots because of the snow that were seeing. I want to mention a closure here in akron and some internit intermittent lane closures there. And elsewhere, a typical construction spot and in that cleveland area. 71. Hour. Not too bad and heading outside for a live look of 480 and just fine and some clouds might be up there. Over to you guys. Thank you. And back to news breaking overnight from the live desk. Republican donald trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton sweeping through super tuesday and claiming big vector victories. On the gop side, take a look. Trump took alabama, arkansas, tennessee, vermont and virginia and cruz in alaska, and his home state of texas and neighboring oklahoma. Marco rubio claimed minnesota and this means the delegate count is 285 for trump and followed by cruz wit
Riculture pro vitility and without these permanent law provisions will make it more difficult to make improvements, changes and reforms over time as we discover they are needed. I urge my colleagues to vote yes on this motion to instruct and reserve. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from minnesota reserves. The gentleman from oklahoma is recognized. Mr. Lucas i yield myself such time as i may consume. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman is recognized. Mr. Lucas im overjoyed to be at this point in the farm bill process where we are on the verge of setting down with my friends in the other body and beginning to put the final bill together. This has been a long and challenging process for both myself, the Ranking Member, mr. Peterson, and all members of the House Agriculture Committee. We have touched on many subject matters. We have had the most amazing open markups in committee with amendments almost beyond galore. Twice we have been across the great floor of this body in an open