Capital markets they have no access to banks how is the city how is someone living in malaysia supposed to survive if an entity such as the u. S. Can come in and strong arm the country into shutting down your bank account well like you said kristie a lot of these people are now relying heavily on these crypto currencies but could countries really ever block the use of them because theyre becoming so popular. Because of how low the. Well its going to be on ramps and they say on ramps and they are fabs that are a problem theres absolutely no censorship in the network itself so if you own crypto you can pay with crypto you can own a transfer and thats one thing but if every tried to move in and out of the National Currencies thats where governments become very significant they can they can ban a 2nd taxes they can regulate its they can regulate the exchanges and i must say over the last 11 years thats become the big problem in the crypto world so its becoming its own ecosystem and and its
[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
Impeachment charging the president of the United States donald j. Drum with committing high crimes and misdemeanors the 1st article is abuse of power for withholding security aid and a white house visit with ukraines leader in exchange for political investigations that would benefit trumps reelection the 2nd obstruction of congress for refusing to cooperate with impeachment investigators the evidence is every bit as strong that president term has obstructed congress fully without precedent and without basis in law if allowed to stand it would decimate congresss ability to conduct oversight of this president or any other in the future trump is only the 4th u. S. President to have impeachment proceed this far he denies all wrongdoing tweeting during the democrats announcement witch hunt democrats say the evidence against trump is damning it includes testimony from more than a dozen witnesses and a white house call summary showing trump asked ukraine to launch investigations into his poli
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