This mr. President. Having passed an amendment that would have said tier 3 countries in the trafficking in persons report of the state department would not be allowed preferential access to the u. S. Market unless they cleaned up their record, which had a strong bipartisan support of members of the Senate Finance committee and ultimately was incorporated in the t. P. A. , the trade Promotion Authority legislation that passed the senate and was sent to the house in good faith because of concerns that maybe that would undermine the transpacific partnership. In good faith i negotiated an amendment, a provision to change in the amendment that would have said you could still negotiate with malaysia, but they had to clean up their act. If you concluded that negotiation and they were part of t. P. P. , they had to clean up their act on Human Trafficking before they got the preferential access to u. S. Markets. I thought it was a significant give on my part considering the vote of the senate,
Further commissioners under the discretionary review receive calendar a request for item 17443 everson street discretionary review for continuance to april 6, 2017, no other items proposed for continuance and i have no speaker cards. Okay. Thank you any Public Comment on the items proposed for continuance seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Open up to commissioner comments proposed to continue item one as noticed and item 17 for april of. Second. Second. Thank you, commissioner on that position to continue commissioner fong commissioner koppel commissioner melgar commissioner moore and commissioner president hillis so moved, commissioners, that motion passes unanimously 5 to zero and commissioners that places us under our consent calendar all matters listed hereunder constitute a consent calendar, are considered to be routine and may be acted upon by a single roll call vote of the commission. There will be no separate discussion of these items unless a member of the commission, the
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David and how is he going to pay for it . The United States is a little bit behind the u. K. They are on their second female Prime Minister. Alix glaxosmithkline ceo andrew witty and tom fanning will join us to break down all their earnings. I turn to you and say it is all about fx. Jonathan what captures risk sentiment that are then dollaryen in the fx market . Tn back with a 105 handle. Firmer, apple helping do that in the United States, and equities firmer in europe as well. Fifth straight a day of losses for crude, down 244. 37. Down to 44. 37. You might forget that today is fed day. A lot to discuss. Alix what matters more, the boj or fed . Lets check in with our Bloomberg Team for indepth coverage of all of our stories. Carl riccadonna on the fed as it wraps up its policy meeting as well as Matthew Cantor men on in europe aschael Deutsche Bank signals deeper cuts, and megan murphy in philadelphia. Jonathan lets begin with coverage of global Central Banks. We will have a more inde