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
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Good to have you then. Then thank you. You know that this is a holiday wake and of course black friday moral important. Tell me how you things see things going into the end of year and into 2020 do you say the economy stay strong. Yes economic fundamentals are pretty good we are going at 3 percent in 2018 and we have probably slowed down to about 2 percent here in 2019 and one of those reasons we are staying that slowdown is that consumers remain strong for your Business Investment has slowed down in live of some of the trade insurgency and Federal Reserve being is it too tight and the good is here maria, is the Federal Reserve start cutting Interest Rates and were starting to see modest Balance Sheets expansion and we expect that to sort of see through the economy. Particularly in early 2020. And the u. S. And china, are really sitting down and having serious talks about a stage i trade deal. Just this week, you saw china, and the u. S. Both staying we are if you get close to a deal,
Good to have you then. Then thank you. You know that this is a holiday wake and of course black friday moral important. Tell me how you things see things going into the end of year and into 2020 do you say the economy stay strong. Yes economic fundamentals are pretty good we are going at 3 percent in 2018 and we have probably slowed down to about 2 percent here in 2019 and one of those reasons we are staying that slowdown is that consumers remain strong for your Business Investment has slowed down in live of some of the trade insurgency and Federal Reserve being is it too tight and the good is here maria, is the Federal Reserve start cutting Interest Rates and were starting to see modest Balance Sheets expansion and we expect that to sort of see through the economy. Particularly in early 2020. And the u. S. And china, are really sitting down and having serious talks about a stage i trade deal. Just this week, you saw china, and the u. S. Both staying we are if you get close to a deal,
Good to have you then. Then thank you. You know that this is a holiday wake and of course black friday moral important. Tell me how you things see things going into the end of year and into 2020 do you say the economy stay strong. Yes economic fundamentals are pretty good we are going at 3 percent in 2018 and we have probably slowed down to about 2 percent here in 2019 and one of those reasons we are staying that slowdown is that consumers remain strong for your Business Investment has slowed down in live of some of the trade insurgency and Federal Reserve being is it too tight and the good is here maria, is the Federal Reserve start cutting Interest Rates and were starting to see modest Balance Sheets expansion and we expect that to sort of see through the economy. Particularly in early 2020. And the u. S. And china, are really sitting down and having serious talks about a stage i trade deal. Just this week, you saw china, and the u. S. Both staying we are if you get close to a deal,