Of the interns at Young Americans foundation. Which is one of the principal outreach organizations of the conservative movement. Young America Foundation introduces thousands of americas youth to fundamental conservative values. Such as individual freedom, free enterprise, a Strong National defense and traditional American Values through campus activism initiatives, campus lecture tours and conferences. Thanks to young America Foundation i have a great honor today to introduce my own senator, United States senator of florida, rick scott. [applause] senator scott to the United States senate in 2018 and currently serving his first term representing the state of florida prior to his election, to the United States Senate Senator scott served two terms of the 45th governor of florida. Senator scott grew up in Public Housing in the midwest as his adopted father, a world war veteran and truck driver and his mother and store clerk struggled to financially after mirroring his high school sweeth
Late night bull session last night which a lot of my democratic colleagues in detroit did as well. Im sure a few of you stood up to watch the democratic debates. I have to admit, i did not. I read the recaps this morning and seems like much seasoning and thoughts by the democrats have not yet made them come to their senses. Understand were still advocating for decriminalized just decriminalizing our border illegally and deporting no one and in the meantime giving taxpayerfunded healthcare, too. In fact, one of my colleagues in the congress recently said that we have to provide taxpayerfunded abortion to illegal immigrants. Which, i have to say, sounds like something some of you might come up with at a late night bull session when youre thinking of a parity about the Democratic Party positions might be. I could go on and on about our democratic friends and what they were saying last night but i see that on your tables you all have a fascinated book in front of you. It is called sacred d
Good evening everyone. We will go ahead and get started with knights programming. Good evening to everyone here and everyone watching online. I would first like to recognize two special guests in the audience tonight. Ron robinson, the president of Young America foundation. [cheering and applause] as well is ron pearson, Vice President of the board of directors. [cheering and applause] Young Americas foundation is the premier Outreach Organization of conservative movement. In 2018 the Los Angeles Times called it one of most preeminent and influential forces in the nations conservative youth movement. Each year introduced thousands of americas youth the fundamental conservative values we all believe in the individual freedom, free enterprise, Strong National defense and traditional american values. This initiative, campus lecture tours and conferences i have the distinct honor of introducing tonight speaker who is a longtime friend of the foundation. The honorable john bolton is current
The Committee Welcomes order. Witnesses. Me the we are here to have testimony from a range of industries that tell us about the importance of the United States, mexico, Canada Agreement and we prefer that to usmca. Fromok forward to hearing witnesses about the significance of the agreement to American Business both small and large, the workers and farmers we all represent. Thank you for being here. Canada, and mexico, our countrys most important trading partners. Americasone third of merchandising went to mexico and canada. Nearly half 1 trillion in American Goods the year. The foundation of our strong praise relationship with mexico and canada has been thus far nafta. The United States negotiated and agreement between 1990 1993 and at the time it was a Gold Standard of trade agreements. It enabled American Businesses, workers, farmers and ranchers is andanges without tariffs nontariff barriers and for decades, burdened our ability to compete in those two countries. Andourse, the u. S.
Today we are discussing the japansouth korea trade dispute. Its obviously a a very sensit, a very difficult issue between two countries that are critically important to the United States as allies, as Economic Partners, as fellow democracies, and as friends. You will notice the title of event includes ramifications and the path forward. I emphasize forward because the current dispute is due in part to events that have taken place months or years or decades or centuries ago. But rather than dwelling on those issues, we want to identify away from for both cos and in the three countries including the United States to move forward. Now, the current dispute is part of a a cyclical pattern that ss to research every few years, and each time it felt to those officials and experts working that each time was the worst. But i think all of us now have seen that this time is very different. In the past the economic and the security realms seemed exempt and, indeed, they were moderating or mitigatin