Trade agreement, the trade agreement with colombia and south korea, one after another, every one of these trade agreements, every one of these trade actions were written fundamentally in secret by corporate interests to serve corporate interests. Workers were never at the center of these trade agreements. One of my proudest votes in the house was against the north American Free trade agreement. I voted no ever since. Again because all of these trade agreements were written by corporations to maximize profits and compensation for executives and to enrich stockholders always, madam president , always at the expense of workers. At the expense of communities like mansfield, ohio and like portsmouth, ohio, and toledo and youngstown. I was talking to a friend of mine in trumble county. She knows. A former senator. She knows whats happened with these trade agreements w. Know how that he undermine communities and hurt workers. Always because these trade agreements were written by corporations
A vote to limit debate scheduled for 5 30 p. M. Eastern time. Hes been acting administrator since last march. Later this week senate is expected to take up articles of impeachment against President Trump wants the house some the articles and names of the child managers to the senate. You can watch full coverage of the trial here on cspan2. The senate. The chaplain, dr. Black, will lead the senate in prayer. The chaplain let us pray. Everlasting god, keep our lawmakers in your holy hands. Empower them to heed your instructions, as they remember that your admonition provides light for their journey. Let your gentleness motivate our senators to respect one another and to guard their lips. Lord, give them the gift of your peace that provides joy even during lifes storms. Use them as instruments for righteousness in a sinful world. We pray in your great name. Amen. Please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance i pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the
For joining. My name is loren smith. Itll be three years this month that ive been at the department, incredibly honored to be part of a great team doing a lot of what we think is really, really awesome work. Its going to be a lot of help to a lot of different parts of the country. Were really, really excited about. I had the honor of serving previously with secretary chow at the labor department. Its been a fascinating experience seeing different cabinet agencies and how the different organizations work. Im joined today by four really excellent panelists i think youre going to enjoy hearing from. I first want to introduce Alex Herrgott who is executive director of the public improvement counsel, fipsi. He has been in that role since september 2018. He had been serving previously as the associate director for infrastructure for counsel on Environmental Quality at the white house. Mr. Herrgott worked for senator james earnhoff in california. He served as primary staff for transportation
They can come up immediately after each other without my introducing them. We had chairman risch of the Foreign Relations committee, chairman wicker of commerce and chairman are also of the environment. We are here because the Senate Finance committee has voted on usmc a out o mca out of committ. A very strong bipartisan vote we expect the same bipartisan vote on the floor of the United States senate when it gets up there under the parliamentary parliamentarians decision it was referred to several other committees. These committees are going to hear from some of those chairmen, but in the meantime, it takes just a short period of time for them to do what they have to do on it to get it moving. But, i do not see that as an impediment to getting the u. S. Mca passed, and the only unknown thing is whether we are in the impeachment or otherwise. The u. S. Mca is very good for agriculture. My state of iowa is number one in the production as an example, or the wheat growing states in the mid
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