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Cspan is your unfiltered view of government. We are funded by these Television Companies and more, including cox. It is extremely rare. But friends dont have to be. This is joe. When youre connected, youre not alone. Cox, support cspan as a public service, along th these other television providers, giving you a front row seat to democracy. Now a National Security and Health Policy discuss the possible use of the military to combat the illegal flow of fentanyl across the southern border. Topics include legislation in congress that would authorize military boards to target the Mexican Cartel and the consequences of intervention in mexico. Hosted by the cato institute, this runs about an hour and 20 minutes. And 20 minutes. Good afternoon everyone. My name is j ....
The director of defense and Foreign Policy studies at cato. It is my pleasure to welcome you, in this form, an uncommonly formal august afternoon in washington, to our forum on proposals for using u. S. Military at the border to counter fentanyl. You will hear a lot of reasons this afternoon why proposals for using the u. S. Military in and around mexico to counter fentanyl is a bad idea. It is important to state at the outset that there is an underlying crisis happening in the u. S. Overdose deaths and precise data are hard to come by. As we can tell, somewhere on the order of 60 and 80,000 americans per year, last year in 2022, are dying of fentanyl related overdoses. Provisional data from the cdc suggested there were more than 70,000 fentanyl Overdose Deaths in the country last year. So, there is a real underlying crisis happening in the u. S. , that helps to explain why ....
And making sure the process works. Senator rubio when people know each other it makes it harder to hate each other. We are an organization together, a Prayer Breakfast but you have disagreement but you like them as a person. You just dont know how they voted or bumper stickers and know them as a father, mother, neighbor, someone who did you favor and that is always important. In the senate that happens. Committees are smaller and you have to make a point of seeking it. I dont know if we are going to get back that everyone lives in washington and goes on vacations. Are you but you need to have that level of cooperation and know each other. You may not agree on 910 things but agree on things you have common interest on. The most coveted thing is a bipartisan cosponsor and makes the bill more attractive and easier to pass. In my case, there was a time when senator cardin were passing so many bills together. They would call me cardi ....
In the trade well, war is too strong. Debate is too tame. The vigorous trade discussions weve had in washington over the last 20 years. Were certainly at an even in the scope of those discussions, we are at an unprecedented moment right now awaiting to see the unrolling of the administrations new trade strategy. We have been weve heard a lot from the president , when he was a candidate, when he was president elect. Since becoming president weve heard a lot about mexico, weve heard a lot about mexicans. Weve heard a lot about nafta. Weve heard a lot about china. Weve heard a lot about tpp. A lot of things are going to be ripped up. A lot of things are going to be done away with. A lot of things are going to be changed. And yet we have little in the way of actual specifics that have come out. The president s trade team, some of them have been named formally named. Wilber ross is i guess his nomination is somewhere on the floor of the senate. Theyll get to him at some point as theyve marc ....
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