Statewide Union Conventions to get the big crowd and then you have on the other side, the early mornings that 4 00 a. M. Wakeup calls that you can catch a plane. The early stage, are easy to get to so from ohio gotta go to chicago and then to iowa somehow or another charlotte and then into South Carolina or atlanta. So the travels, the packing and unpacking of the bags. Being away from the family. Thats really the hard part. The one thing thats been interesting, is almost like the consensus in the country, not just how screwed up washington is but the challenges of the country. You can be in a Manufacturing Center in youngstown, the hospitals close, they lost jobs. The challenges with opiates of some kind of drug addiction, and shes around the environment. Water whatever. And you can go into the rural and is the same thing. They are losing their maternity board, the hospital and they are dealing with methane and phentermine issues. They are losing manufacturing in their downtown needs
The committee will come to order. We welcome our witnesses. Were here to have testimony from a range of industries to tell us about the importance of the United Statesmexicocanada agreement, and we soon are referring that to always as usmca. We look forward to hearing from our witnesses about the significance of the agreement to american businesses, both small and large, the workers, the farmers that we all represent. Thank you for being here. Mexico and canada are our countrys most important trading partners. According to the International Trade commission for the year 2017, more than onethird of americas merchandise exports went to mexico and canada. In that year mexico and canada imported more than half a trillion dollars of American Goods plus more than 91 billion of american services. For iowa our six and sixtenths billion of exports to canada supported 130,000 jobs. The foundation of our strong trading relationship with mexico and canada have been, thus far, nafta. The United Sta
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Palo alto as the crews continue to clear. Back to you. Facebook is giving the all clear after a scare at its headquarters that lasted some 14 hours. A suspicious substance led to a tense hazmat situation yesterday when a machine alerted workers a package possibly contained sarin. In spite of the early reports, no one was hurt and so far theyre showing no symptoms. Hazmat team removed the package at four buildings and they were evacua evacuated. Today in the bays bob redell is monitoring the developments. Hell have a live report coming up at 5 30 for us. Also developing this morning an east bay girl is missing. Her parents believe she was lured from her home by someone she met online. Here is a look at 12yearold Breanna Zamora. Pete we understand there was video from when she was last seen . Reporter yes, thats right, laura. As you mentioned, 12yearold Breanna Zamora has gone missing since sunday from her Oakland Hills home and her father did share this piece of Surveillance Video, this