Screeria nigeria. And later, a look at turkeys role uhamid the violence in syria, iraq and yemen. Wednesday the Senate Agricultural hearing held a hearing. Along with officials from the agriculture, treasury and Commerce Departments. Topics include the opportunities and challenges of expanding trade with the island nation. This is 2 hours and 10 minutes. Okay. Just quiet down. Let it go. Let it go. I was going to say that myself. Sure got quiet. Good morning the committee will come to order. I call this meeting of the Senate Committee on agriculture, nutrition and forestry to order. At the beginning of this congress, i was extremely hopeful that trade would be one area to work to find an agreement. I still maintain that hope. We certainly hope thats the case. Were working very hard in the finance committee to make that happen. Tomorrow, will mark up the promotion bill. That allows our negotiators to garner the best deal possible for american exporters. Tpa is good for agriculture. And
Under Medicare Part b, doctors were protected from socialized medicine. Allowed them to be compensated for usual fees. They were represented by american medical association, still then and still opposes quote socialized medicine. President johnson traveled to independence, missouri, the birthplace of trumans wife bess to sign the law. Bess and harry truman were given the first two medicare cards. Medicare expansion protected pharmaceutical industry. Some contend that aca protects Health Care Industry skirting efficient approach to insure the nation or medicare or singlepayer approach. Finally were now at chapter four, which raises the question, did the path we set for ourselves then result in a series of bonanzas . First bonanza for doctors and hospitals. Secondly a bonanza for the pharmaceutical industry and third now for the Insurance Industry itself. Or was it as others might argue, just the american way . Here we are traveled a long circuit does route to near universal access to he
Preferences and the reauthorization of the importexport bank. Key to reforming our trade policies we believe is abolishing the outdated, unaccountable and undemocratic fast track process. The Transpacific Partnership, now being negotiated by our government, includes 12 countries and about 40 of the worlds g. D. P. And the t. P. P. Is designed to be infinitely expandable. So it could be the last trade agreement we negotiate so its especially crucial that we get the terms of this one right. And mr. Chairman, the idea that fast track lets congress set the standards and goals for t. P. P. Im not talking about other agreements but for t. P. P. , is an absolute fiction. The agreement has been under negotiation for more than five years and is essentially complete. So the instructions that you send them will have no affect whatsoever. Congress cannot set meaningful negotiating objectives if the administrations already negotiated most of the key provisions. I might also add, this will be the wo
Talk about the whatifs. Because, like many people throughout the country, they dont know what the next steps are. Theyve had to cut back and jill has even had to stop going to her doctor appointments because of her the injuries that shes been treated for that are associated with her military service. Her husband now is considering dropping out of school in order to bring home more money to help their family. And jill is applying now for a second job. What especially worries her is that if she has to work both night and day, and with her husband now not sure what hes going to have to do as far as his education or going back to work, is that her children, again, ages 4 and 6, might have to be with a babysitter not just during the day but at night now. And i would ask any mother or for that matter any parent who thinks that thats acceptable. Theres so much sacrifice that we have asked of our veterans and their families and in this case were asking so much for this family that all they wan
Mississippi is being silently invaded by exotic plant species. These weeds are not just garden nuisances; they are changing the way natural areas function, and they are costing all of us money. Your tax dollars pay to fight the disruptive spread of these plants. Also, tax revenues are lost when plants such as kudzu invade forested timberlands.