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
Its max kaiser this is the kaiser report twas the night before christmas and all over the world people were mining back on seeking individual sovereignty a new poem i just wrote what do you think stacey is not made that oh thats lovely i said Merry Christmas in spanish i know that from Jose Feliciano i see youre still wearing your colombian necktie. Now you know i sort i cant think of 2 different ways really hopefully it wont be a colombian act by the end of the show that would be quite bloody yes exactly but where in argentina were going to be heading to Rio De Janeiro those will be our next episodes from there as you see were in the Southern Hemisphere where we all it took us decades of my life to learn that its warm down here during the cold christmas up north so from now on i am going to be where its warm christmas much better than that cold sand its nice and warm down here so were going to look back at 2019 and you know what were the big themes what we got right what we got wrong
Prohibited by the u. S. House of representatives. ] will be er the house in order. The prayer will be offered by our chaplain, father conroy. Pray. In conroy let us god of the ages, we give you hanks for giving us another day. We continue to ask you to be peoples re in the house. Olitical energy is high, yet, we ask that you bless the members with wisdom and as they continue toward the end of the first session. Work to be completed result in blessings for our the funding of the government for the next year. Send a healing pirit upon this assembly, upon our nation. Much harsh language and have been heard in the chamber. Ambassadors of peace and reconciliation so that hope inicans might have a united future. May all that is done be for your honor and glory. Amen. Speaker pursuant to Section House resolution 758, the days of the last proceedings is approved. The pledge of allegiance will be ed by the gentlewoman from california, mrs. Torres. Mrs. Torres please join after me. I pledge alle
[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