Thank you all for coming. Before i say a few things, for the finance committee, im going to introduce my colleagues, and thank them for being here, so that they can come up immediately, after each other without my introducing. We have chairman risch of the Foreign Relations commit, chairman wicker of commerce and chairman barrasso of the environment, epw. We are here because the Senate Finance committee has voted our uscma out of committee 253, 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 parliamentary, the parliament aaririan decision it was referred to other committee, you will hear from some of those chairman but in the meantime, it takes just a short period of time for them to do what they have to do, to get it moving, but we dont, i do not see that as an impediment to getting usmca passed, and the only unknown thing is whether were in impeachment or otherwise. The usmca is very good for agr
Impeachment to the senate. [inaudible conversations] thank you all for coming. Before i say a few things im going to introduce my colleagues and thank them for being here so 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 th
And every weekend on cspan 2. Earlier today Senate Republicans held a News Conference on the trade agreement between the u. S. , mexico, and canada. Heres what they had to say. Thank you all for coming. Before i say a few things for the finance committee, im going to introduce my colleagues and thank them for being here so that they can come up immediately after each other without my introducing them. We have chairman of the Foreign Relations committee here, chairman of commerce and the chairman of environment, epw. Were here because the Senate Finance committee has voted our usmca out of committee, 25 to 3, 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 youre 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
Journal. Five and seven eastern friday morning. Join the discussion. Later today Senate Republicans held a News Conference on the trade agreement between the u. S. Mexico and canada and here is what they had to say. Thank you all for coming. And before i say a few things for the finance committee, im going to introduce my colleagues and thank them for being here says they can come up immediately after each other that went out my introducing them. We have chairman for Mart Committee here printed chairman wicker, the commerce secretary environment. We are here because Senate Finance committee and u. S. Mca committee 25 to three. A very strong bipartisan vote. We expect the same bipartisan vote on the floor the United States senate when he gets up there. On the parliamentary, decision, it was referred to several other committees get these committees are going to hear from some of those germans in the meantime it takes just a short period of time to do what they have to do but we do our i
Quorum call the presiding officer the senator from ohio were in a quorum call. The senator will suspend. Without objection. Mr. Brown tomorrow i will do something ive never down. I will vote for a trade agreement, the first time in my career. Im voting for that trade agreement because of the work that my colleague from oregon, senator wyden and i did to fix President Trumps deal and secure new protections for American Workers for the First Time Ever in spite of the president s intransigence, in spite of the president s lining up as he always does with corporate interests because our trade agreement for the First Time Ever, ever put workers at the center of this agreement. Every trade agreement that ive seen in my time in congress, north American Free trade agreement, Central America free 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 corp