For the president and congress. So you can submit them to the u. S. Commission on civil rights by either mailing them to the commission to the office of civil rights, 1331 pennsylvania avenue, thats 1331 pennsylvania Avenue Northwest suite 1150 washington 20425 or via email at Public Comments at usccr. Gov. Thats publiccomments uscc r. Gov. With that out of the way i would like to introduce and swear our panelists in and Stella Flores from vanderbilt university. Peggy carr from the u. S. Department of education and dr. James t. Minor also with the u. S. Department of education. Will you each raise your right ha hand, please. And i ask that you swear or affirm that the information youre about to provide to us is true and accurate to the best of your believe and belief, is that correct . Yes. Professor flores, please proceed. Thank you, commissioners, for the opportunity to speak on the civil rights implications on College Access, persistence and completion for underrepresented minority
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
You look around and you have obvious uncertainties. There are fewer questions but the saudis are concerned. You dont have a stable leadership in iraq. In terms of actual coverage problems in kuwait and bahrain. I get worried about the idea of continuity here. I get worried about how well the kingdom can deal with a king and new foreign minister minister, but i have concerned. On the job sight looking at the five year plan data and the budget plan data, theyre not making progress and it is critical. Women are a key aspect of a productive labor force when theyre more than half the population. There is amazing lack of correlation between education and job creation. Education for jobs when the economy is creating them is very valuable. Education for the sake of education has almost no Historical Impact in moving countries toward development. And this is not popular but it is unfortunately where nobody trots out numbers to contradict it and the kingdom has to face this. Just to go back to t