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mr. speaker, i rise today in strong support of the newly announced partnership with florida international university the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is correct. the house will be in ordered. the gentleman from florida. mr. curbelo: thank you mr. speaker. i rise today in strong support of the newly announced partnership with florida international university, a nationally respected institute of higher learning in my district and florida power and light. they are working to provide cleaner energy solutions to south florida, something i whole heartedly support. it involves the installation of solar panels on 23 canopy light structures that will be constructed in f.i.u. s engineering center parking lot. f.i.u. students will directly monitor the amount of energy generated from these solar panels and the effect they have on the electricity grid. it was announced that f.p.l. is expected to triple its presence in the business by 2016. such an undertaking is only possi ....
2011. we shipped $53 million of french fries to south korea. that rose to $ 3 million. 57% increase largely attributed to the trade barriers that were lowered. for the record that potato industry supports 24,000 jobs in my state. those are good paying jobs, which are all supported by trade. trade promotion authority is about creating a fair playing field for consumers so we can create more jobs here at home. most people may not know this but american wines face 50% tariffs in japan. our beef faces a 38% tariff. our oranges 16%. t.p.a. will instruct our negotiators will work on lowering these barriers to u.s. products. mr. speaker americans produce some of the finest products in the world and if given the chance to compete fairly i believe they can. i have no doubt we can outperform almost any competitor in the world but we can t continue other countries to stack the deck against us. by granting the president to l the power to negotiate a treaty and congress telling him ....
be either in congress or embarrassingly contradictory on their part, and so tonight we are just hours away from what will be a showdown vote tomorrow on whether to give president obama authority to complete global trade deals. trade deals that congress will be able to approve or reject but not change in any way. trade deals that critic say cost our middle class jobs, cut further into economic growth and put more pressure on working men and women in this country. trade deals that benefit principally well-healed associations, the lobbyists who work for big business and big multinationals, the associations like the chamber of commerce and the business roundtable, and tonight it appears the republicans will deliver the trade bills to the president over the objections of his own party. so what in the world are congressional republicans thinking. we take it you of tonight with republican congressman mark meadows. also tonight what is the obama administration thinking the chai ....
be either in congress or embarrassingly contradictory on their part, and so tonight we are just hours away from what will be a showdown vote tomorrow on whether to give president obama authority to complete global trade deals. trade deals that congress will be able to approve or reject but not change in any way. trade deals that critic say cost our middle class jobs, cut further into economic growth and put more pressure on working men and women in this country. trade deals that benefit principally well-healed associations, the lobbyists who work for big business and big multinationals, the associations like the chamber of commerce and the business roundtable, and tonight it appears the republicans will deliver the trade bills to the president over the objections of his own party. so what in the world are congressional republicans thinking. we take it you of tonight with republican congressman mark meadows. also tonight what is the obama administration thinking the chai ....
testimony, i added some new. i didn t realize it went back to the year 1912 followed bit civil reform act of 1978 and the whistle blower protection act of 1989 and the whistle blower act of 2012. and yet we still have problems. my own experience with this having come to government pretty late in life, started really with the events of the secret service. then as we started looking at reports being issued and written by the office of the inspector general, the fact that there was retaliation, or certainly evidence of retaliation against members of that inspection team for being for a threat. and then followed up recently, we had a border and protections agent chris cabrera testifying on information to homeland security, but also testifying under oath as all of you will be doing here today achlt. a couple months later, he testified on march 17 2015. a few months later another hearing on may 15 2015, this committee was made aware that agent cabrera was being scheduled for ....