Import bank with chair Kimberly Reed. This is an hour and 20 minutes. [inaudible conversations] the committee will come t the committee will come to order. Today the committee turns its focus to the export import of the United States. Just last month the Senate Confirmed Kimberly Reed to be president and chairman of the Export Import Bank along with board member spencer bach cuss and judith pryor. The nominations of claudia slei Board Members are approved by this committee and pending on the full senate floor. United states exporters are able to compete very effectively in intern International Markets on the basis of price and quality. However, when foreign governments provide subsidies as a matter of policy and general practice to their exporters, u. S. Exporters are placed at a competitive disadvantage purely because of such financing arrangements. According to the 2017 xm bank, competitiveness report, chinese export credit agencies provided more medium and longterm investment suppor
Be sure to watch cspans washington journal, live at 7 00 a. M. Eastern. Join the discussion. Meadows who chairs the House Republican Freedom Caucus talks about the groups ,ission, following his remarks congressman metals takes questions about the Freedom Caucus in gop efforts to repeal and replace the health care law. Afternoon. Welcome to the National Press club. The worlds leading professional organization for journalism where news happens and we are the constitution. Theame is jeff ballou and 110th president of the National Press club. I want to remind people in the audience and our about some housekeeping things that we have happening here. First of all to remind you for those who came into the room late. If you have a smartphone and we do encourage the use of smartphones here at the club. Turments ur ancient acu allow it but we would like it on silent or vibrate because we would like you to tweet and follow along and to our viewing audience. And to do that you would follow us usin
Be sure to watch cspans washington journal, live at 7 00 a. M. Eastern. Join the discussion. Meadows who chairs the House Republican Freedom Caucus talks about the groups ,ission, following his remarks congressman metals takes questions about the Freedom Caucus in gop efforts to repeal and replace the health care law. Afternoon. Welcome to the National Press club. The worlds leading professional organization for journalism where news happens and we are the constitution. Theame is jeff ballou and 110th president of the National Press club. I want to remind people in the audience and our about some housekeeping things that we have happening here. First of all to remind you for those who came into the room late. If you have a smartphone and we do encourage the use of smartphones here at the club. Turments ur ancient acu allow it but we would like it on silent or vibrate because we would like you to tweet and follow along and to our viewing audience. And to do that you would follow us usin
Would like your phones on silent or vibrate because we also like you to tweet and follow along here in the room and of course to our viewing audience. Turments allow it but we would like it on silent or vibrate because we would like you to tweet and follow along and to our viewing audience. And to do that you would follow us using the handle pressclubdc nancy, p as s in paul, live or hashtag headliners. Using the handle pressclubdc. And thats for our Television Online and radio audiences. Please be aware that there are member who are members of the general public. So therefore if you hear any expressions of applause or signs of approval or disapproval, that doesnt necessarily mean its coming from the working journalists in the room because we do have some decorum, at least id like to think we do. Before we get into the rest of it rest of the things, i would like to introduce the head table and then we will thank some important people who put together todays luncheon. So starting on my
Morning. Alabama, good caller the biggest problem we have in this country is a drug problem. It used up the drugs, you stop all the killing and the violence. You have mexicans coming across the border. You either pay 3500 dollars to come across or you have to bring some drugs across. In alabama, if you get address did arrested for drugs, it is two years before you go to trial. If we can stop the drugs, we can stop the violence. Host anthony is also in alabama. Go ahead. I am a 23yearold student at the university of alabama. I wanted to speak on the experience i have had. Me and some friends a year ago tried to play a joke. We were in the neighborhood and we decided to take some fights on each other and see who would stop to help the black guy and who would stop to help the white guy and unfortunately, i did not when they picked a fight with myself and the guys that were with me. They got stopped by a couple of neighbors and chased down. 30 minutes later, we went to a different street a