earlier today some of you were with us when we had the announcement of chairman bobby scott s college affordability act legislation to make higher education more affordable, expanding opportunity, improving access to quality education. this week as all through the break and continuing this week we ve been working on the u.s.-mexico-canada trade agreement. we hope to be on a path to yes. we re still waiting on assurances about enforceability in it because you can have all the good provisions in the world, but if you can t enforce them, you re just having a conversation. so there are some of the concerns we have about the u.s.-china relationship, are they really going to honor any commitment that they make? buying foreign products is good but what about the other considerations that hurt america s manufacture base and the rest? so we will see what that is. it seems to me it was a small bill.
[indiscernible] that was the scene wednesday night in bentonville arkansas at a town hall meeting sponsored by gop senator tom cotton. republicans across the country are being greeted by angry protesters. they are expressing skepticism. they are saying the protesters in many cases where liberal activist. shauna spicer also questioned the grass roots nature. i think some people are clearly upset that there are is a bit of professional manufacture base in there. it s not a representation of the members district is a loud group, small group of people is repping something we re
net worth comes out every 3 years, by the way, greta. it s already 18 months old. yes, it is tie to the buying power of u.s. households, tied to their house and their stock portfolios, but both of those categories have picked up over the last 18 months and the survey only talks to 4500 households. it is a sliver of a fraction of 1% of allus households. and the other thing it is pointing out in the survey, if you are going to take it on face value, you can t solve income inequality through housing, that was a mistake in d.c., we have a service economy. we have a thriving service economy in health care, information technology and legal services, all of that. yes, we have the manufacture base. but we still are continuing out of d.c., we are careening in episodic ways to fix prior problems. greta: is part of the problem, if your net worth
numbers we are seeing over the net worth comes out every 3 years, by the way, greta. it s already 18 months old. yes, it is tie to the buying power of u.s. households, tied to their house and their stock portfolios, but both of those categories have picked up over the last 18 months and the survey only talks to 4500 households. it is a sliver of a fraction of 1% of allus households. and the other thing it is pointing out in the survey, if you are going to take it on face value, you can t solve income inequality through housing, that was a mistake in d.c., we have a service economy. we have a thriving service economy in health care, information technology and legal services, all of that. yes, we have the manufacture base. but we still are continuing out of d.c., we are careening in episodic ways to fix prior problems. greta: is part of the problem, if your net worth