Preferences and the reauthorization of the importexport bank. Key to reforming our trade policies we believe is abolishing the outdated, unaccountable and undemocratic fast track process. The Transpacific Partnership, now being negotiated by our government, includes 12 countries and about 40 of the worlds g. D. P. And the t. P. P. Is designed to be infinitely expandable. So it could be the last trade agreement we negotiate so its especially crucial that we get the terms of this one right. And mr. Chairman, the idea that fast track lets congress set the standards and goals for t. P. P. Im not talking about other agreements but for t. P. P. , is an absolute fiction. The agreement has been under negotiation for more than five years and is essentially complete. So the instructions that you send them will have no affect whatsoever. Congress cannot set meaningful negotiating objectives if the administrations already negotiated most of the key provisions. I might also add, this will be the wo
Washington journal is live every morning at 7 00 a. M. Eastern on cspan. Friday at 11 00 a. M. Eastern president obama speaks about changes to government surveillance programs. Well bring it to you live from the Justice Department here on cspan. Later a panel reacts to the president s speech. Well hear from a former c. I. A. Analyst. Live coverage at 2 00 p. M. Eastern also here on cspan. When gow behind the scenes as a photographer, you are there to seerks not hear, not listen and not repeat anything that you hear and its kind of a mutual agreement because we are let into meetings. When you are behind the scenes that are sensitive. I was there when president obama same a rally and at the time the hurricane had just come up the east coast and was up in the north and he was on a secure phone talking to a fema director trying to organize it at the same time of the campaign. Really unique time to be in there and hear him in a really heated or serious conversation about what was going on o
Appeared on the council of Foreign Relations talk about the help of the u. S. Economy and urged congress to raise the debt ceiling, which ends on february 7, the deadline there. The secretary spoke for about 45 minutes. Welcome, everybody. We are going to go a few minutes later than planned, and we will have a Good Opportunity for a robust questionandanswer session, so please be thinking of some robust westerns as we go along in our conversation this morning. Just a reminder that this is on the record. When you ask questions later on, i will be asking you to identify yourself. If you could turn the ringers off on your cell phones, just put it on stun, whatever setting veryave, that would be helpful to us. Since we have a lot to talk about, lets jump right into it. Thank you very much for joining us. This feels like an historic week. Not quite like a move landing, but we appear to be very close which is anbudget, unusual thing for the United States of america. It is not without a stopga
Gentlewoman from florida, ms. Roslehtinen,. Mexico will host president obama and Prime Minister harper for the north american leaders meeting. The lessons of the past will be at the forefront of our minds. Our focus fundamentally needs to be on the future, and that is were it will be come on the growth of our markets, the strength of our partnership, the health and wellbeing of our people, and the security of our continent for years to come. Mr. Secretary . Thank you, and good morning to all. Thank you, secretary kerry. Thank you, minister. This has been a very good meeting for mexico. It has been an opportunity to talk about issues that are relevant to the region. At the outset i would like to recognize from mexico the long hours, the long days that secretary kerry, the risk he is taking to construct a better world, and i think those risks have paid off and mexico recognizes that hard work. We had a good meeting this morning. I would like to thank the embers of the press. [speaking sp
Proud of robert e. Lee. And heck of a catch. Good to have you with us thanks for watching. Louisiana governor bobby jindal announces hes running for president , hes about to take the podium for his official announcement. But lets take a quick look at governor jindals record as the louisiana governor. It is not pretty. Jindal recently passed an a executive order giving companies the right to discriminant against gay consumers. Slashed money from the states Higher Education system. Higher education in the state of louisiana is currently facing a 1. 6 billion budget short fall this year in 2015. How do you run on that . Hes refused to expand medicaid on under obamacare in louisiana. Over 16 of Louisiana Residents are unensureinsured. One of the highest rates in the nation. Jindal slashed millions from std prevention budget and prevented new planned parenthood clinics from opening up. Given a billion dollars in tax breaks to multimillion dollar corporations including the fracking industry.