How do you see the governors race playing out in louisiana . In terms of my timeline, it will be the next few months. My wife and i continue to think about it. As we were saying earlier, i think everybody is thinking about this. Who is the next president is not as important as what the next president does. We face serious challenges. This is an election that will be a series election, not just about who can tell the best jokes or deliver the best speech. This is a consequential election about the future direction of our country. I am not just thinking about the election but the issues and giving serious thought to where our country needs to go on energy, education, Foreign Policy, health care, and a number of other areas. I strongly encourage anyone else to do that. I dont know how you get into a race this important without giving serious thought to the issues. That is part of what im doing at this time. Trust me, when i do make a decision it will not be a , secret. Im happy to tell yo
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
Discussion and help move transportation and infrastructure policy forward. Thank you very much, and i look forward to our discussion. Thank you. [ applause ] go ahead and sit in the middle. And rich, if you join us on the end there. Well have some q a here. Well chat a little bit and then time to open it up to some questions from you all in the audience. Thank you both for being here. As i said at the top, a host of issues where the chamber and the aflcio, organized labor do not see eye to eye. I saw mr. Trumka and on this issue there is so much overlap and the question is raised immediately, if organized labor and the Largest Business Group in washington are on the same page, why cant this get done. Maybe ill go to you, rich, first. Whats standing in the way . Youve looked at this issue and battled over this for years. Whats in the way . Its pure politics right now. In the past this was always a bipartisan issue. There was never bickering. Everybody knew that you had to keep the count
Sponsors terrorism all over the world, a country that is developing long range rockets a country that we know has been working on acquiring a Nuclear Weapon capability despite and has always had a secret component to their plan will retain the ability to process uranium. Theres a reduction in centrifuges and in term tz of what they can do, in terms of research and development and the secretary of energy has laid this out clearly. Here the problem. Number one they retain all the infrastructure they wid need to break all those caps. Second enforcing such a deal requires there to be open, full inspections. Iran is saying they will not allow access to military facilities. Thats problematic. The United States does not acknowledge that would be the reality. They said these would be the most Intrusive Inspections yet and they have a year to stop any uranium development. We should never have retreated from the position that iran does not have the right to enrich uranium. We should have insiste