Hes expected to discuss the u. S. Mexicocanada trade agreement known as usmca. This is hosted by the American Enterprise Institute Just getting under way here live on cspan3. He has one of the authors of the 2017 tax cuts and jobs act. Hes been a proponent of deregulation and an advocate for ending bureaucratic overreach. Senator toomey, a strong defender of free trade will be laying out his thoughts on the current agreement today and after his presentation, he will be joined for a conversation with ai resident scholar dr. Scissors. He has written extensively on the usmca and its impact on americas position in the world. Please join me in welcoming senator toomey to the stage. [ applause ] thanks, robert, for that kind introduction and most of all, thanks to you and aei for hosting this and giving me this chance to share my thoughts and have a conversation about what i think is an important topic. I appreciate everybody who came out this morning as well. I can tell you that i i take se
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Much, indeed, senator faucet. In the 58 days since President Trump was inaugurated, the Turnbull Government has been swift to engage with key figures in the administration. As we know, the Prime Minister has spokessen with the president. Spoken with the president. The president s honoring an agreement with america to accept refugees, an important outcome for australia. Already three nsclevel ministers have had face to face meetings with their counterparts and other officials. Last month the secretary of state and the defense minister, also last month [inaudible] this morning i returned from the United States after a visit to washington and new york in which i had meeting with attorney general jeff sessions, the new director of the cia, mike pompeo, the director to have fbi, james comey, the white House Homeland Security adviser and the chairman of the Senate Intelligence committee, senator burr. While in new york, i met with the undersecretary general of the United Nations for Politica
How are they going to interface with the new majority, the senate majority, the house majority. And where do you see the issues merging, like transportation . We hear from states they want more Transportation Funding. How do you see that taking hold . Given the specific candidates, how will the state issues sync up with National Priorities . Its uhave now, i think going to be 31 governors on the gop side. So they will have a line of communication to the folks in congress. On the other hand, kind of countervailing that, is the idea that in general republicans do not like to spend money to tax people to spend money. This goes back to my point before of how much leeway the general Republican Party is going to give you a governors and state legislators who need to spend money on certain things in their state which runs contrary to the general gop philosophy that you do not want to spend too much. It is an interesting area of tension. It will be an interesting area of tension. They may have
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