Of of violence and prevention strategy will discuss Sexual Harassment and an education program. Watch washington journal, live seven eastern on friday morning. Joined the discussion. Now, hearing on the impact of Women Leaders on the economy. From the Senate Small Business committee, this is about one hour. [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] i know youre having a good time and networking. And moving the enterprise forward. We really should get started. We have to vote starting at noon. We will be on the short string. Thats not in anyway denigrate the importance of this hearing of the Small Business committee. But will do today is explore ways to help womanowned businesses reach your full potential and grow the american economy. I want to thank my colleague for working together on this. This is a matter of great importance to a Central America even though all america sometimes doesnt know it. October is National Womens Small Business month. It serves as a great
Of third parties being excluded whether it is rules or market actors. I think one in which country loses Market Access, but as repeatedly pointed out, for the most part, we exclude agriculture, textiles, a few of my favorite industries, for the most part tariffs are very low. Market access is not the biggest deal in the world. With respect to rules on labor standards, if you look at labor standards, Environmental Standards, i think the u. S. And e. U. Are increasing pushing issues already in the ft as after the 2007 agreement with the United States. Con aggression agreement was very clear you will have all the agreements whether chorus or have you, well have environmental labor standards and that will also be the case. The third and last one will be regulatory. Here is where you have a lot of complication. Essentially, this is now the first time you might argue the u. S. Is now in the drivers seat with respect to global trade negotiations. We did agreements with morocco, bahrain and ot
Coming up at noon eastern time well bring you a Panel Discussion including john gashy, the president of the Catholic University here in washington, d. C. , to talk about pope francis views on capitalism and his latest encyclical, the pope will be in the u. S. For six days beginning next tuesday. Well have live coverage of the Cato Institute forum here on cspan. Again that starts at noon eastern. I think that what we will see this week are some votes to register republican concerns over those recent videos that were coming out over the past few weeks involving planned parenthood officials discussing the sale of fetal tissue. Is a big response from republicans and conservatives in general that they would find some way to prevent taxpayer funding from going to the organization. Be twoek there will votes that focus on the response to those videos. One vote would be to make it so there will be no taxpayer money spent on the organization which gets a considerable amount of federal funding ev
I think you pretty much took my entire speech when he mentioned the word cbo. Unfortunately, i think it is, i think this is something both sides of the aisle, this is something bipartisan we kind of struggled with right now is we are kind of living in an arrow cliff. It is one cliff after the other after the other. The debt ceiling or the sequester or the sgr cliff. Does congressional staffers, im sure debbie can attest to, we are constantly living in his temporary environment because we have to. That is unfortunate your we would all like to take some time and do a deep dive into deep policy thinking and try to think of transformational ideas that can transform everything, but when we kind of walking to work reality hits us. We have a job to do. We have to take of the thing that is the most pressing on the front end, and, unfortunately, thats kind of the environment we are living in. And it was a very interesting panel, especially the last one, where i was hearing, theres Nothing Bette
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