Go ahead. Hello . We will have to leave it there. That is it for the program today. Another edition of washington journal comes your way tomorrow morning. The house comes into consider several rules for future voting on bills. The speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. The chair lays before the house a communication from the speaker. The clerk the speakers rooms, washington, d. C. May 22, 2024. I hereby appoint the honorable Chuck Edwards to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. Signed, mike johnson, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to the order of the house of january 9, 2024, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour debate. The chair will alternate recognition between the parties, with time equally allocated between the parties and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and the minority whip limited to five minutes. But in no event shall debate
Screeria nigeria. And later, a look at turkeys role uhamid the violence in syria, iraq and yemen. Wednesday the Senate Agricultural hearing held a hearing. Along with officials from the agriculture, treasury and Commerce Departments. Topics include the opportunities and challenges of expanding trade with the island nation. This is 2 hours and 10 minutes. Okay. Just quiet down. Let it go. Let it go. I was going to say that myself. Sure got quiet. Good morning the committee will come to order. I call this meeting of the Senate Committee on agriculture, nutrition and forestry to order. At the beginning of this congress, i was extremely hopeful that trade would be one area to work to find an agreement. I still maintain that hope. We certainly hope thats the case. Were working very hard in the finance committee to make that happen. Tomorrow, will mark up the promotion bill. That allows our negotiators to garner the best deal possible for american exporters. Tpa is good for agriculture. And
Under Medicare Part b, doctors were protected from socialized medicine. Allowed them to be compensated for usual fees. They were represented by american medical association, still then and still opposes quote socialized medicine. President johnson traveled to independence, missouri, the birthplace of trumans wife bess to sign the law. Bess and harry truman were given the first two medicare cards. Medicare expansion protected pharmaceutical industry. Some contend that aca protects Health Care Industry skirting efficient approach to insure the nation or medicare or singlepayer approach. Finally were now at chapter four, which raises the question, did the path we set for ourselves then result in a series of bonanzas . First bonanza for doctors and hospitals. Secondly a bonanza for the pharmaceutical industry and third now for the Insurance Industry itself. Or was it as others might argue, just the american way . Here we are traveled a long circuit does route to near universal access to he
And the second thing that we need to do in a fundamentally, efficient way is to go out and produce more things in our manufacturing plants and in new manufacturing plants that we would build and export them around the world. Those are the only ways to expand manufacturing jobs in the United States. I wasnt here when the north American Free trade agreement was negotiated. I can tell in you my state its viewed as a net positive. For that region of the country. As the central Free Trade Agreement is. Senator cornyn part of the consequences, i visited with senator kaine, down in honduras recently, you remember the influx of minors moving into the United States, and our failure to have help our neighbors provide not only security but also help grow their economy where they live does have residual and impact on us in ways that perhaps we dont even recognize. So i appreciate the great work that you and the Ranking Member have undertaken on this and look forward to supporting the t. P. A. In t
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