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Neither the Public Good nor Your Personal Interests Are Served
Without Your Voice |
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TRADE
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WILL SPS INNOVATIONS IN TPP RESURFACE? Vetter
said she hoped two of the Trans-Pacific Partnership's innovations in food
safety and plant and animal health regulations, otherwise known as sanitary and
phytosanitary measures, will reappear in the revised NAFTA pact. One of those
established an accelerated process to resolve SPS problems that are detected
when agricultural goods are crossing the border, while another
institutionalized cooperation between countries to resolve policy differences
before they become full-fledged disputes, Vetter said. While there are relatively few SPS disputes
between, Canada, Mexico and the United States, a revised SPS chapter could help
in both areas, Vetter said. Beyond NAFTA, the value of new SPS
standards would be to establish a set of "best practices"
that could be incorporated into future trade agreements the three countries
reach, she said. [POLITICO's
Morning Trade, October 10, 2017]
DELAURO: ISDS IN NAFTA MAKES IT EASIER TO OUTSOURCE JOBS: Connecticut
Rep. Rosa DeLauro and four other House Democrats will urge NAFTA 2.0
negotiators today to drop the investor-state dispute settlement process from
any renegotiation, arguing that ISDS makes it easier for companies to outsource
jobs and forgo public health protections. Policies like ISDS "have no
place in any version of a trade agreement. The American people deserve a new trade
model that is not crafted by corporations. ... The people of our nation want a
trade deal that works for them, not for the wealthy and corporations with the
most lobbyists," DeLauro told Morning Trade in a statement. The five members - DeLauro, Keith Ellison,
Debbie Dingell, Marcy Kaptur and David Cicilline - will make the demand at a
press conference on the Hill alongside leaders from more than 30 groups from
the U.S., Mexico and Canada - including Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch,
the AFL-CIO, International Labor Rights Forum, and Council of Canadians - this
morning as negotiators start the fourth round of NAFTA renegotiation talks. Trump administration officials are expected
to include their final ISDS proposal in this week's talks. The proposal comes
with both an "opt-in" provision that essentially makes the whole
process voluntary and rolls back two key investor protections that private
companies have previously been able to use under ISDS in past U.S. agreements. [POLITICO's
Morning Trade, October 11, 2017]
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DEPARTMENT OF
“JUST US”
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Jefferson
Beauregard "Shit gibbon" Sessions III
Attorney General
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DONALD J. TRUMP
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| WHITE HOUSE |
WHITE HOUSE EDUCATION ADVISORY PANELS SET TO
EXPIRE: Three presidential advisory commissions focused
on educational excellence for Hispanic, African American, and Asian American
and Pacific Islander students will expire Saturday without action from
President Donald Trump. Members of the White House Advisory Commission on Educational
Excellence for Hispanics said earlier this month that the Trump administration has had little to no contact
with them all year. When asked if the president will extend the life of the
advisory panels, a White House spokesman told Morning Education, "We don't
have any announcements to make at this time." The advisory panel on
educational excellence for Hispanic students was created in 1990 through an
executive order signed by former President George H.W. Bush. In September 2015,
the Obama administration renewed the
advisory committee for another two years. All the current members were
appointed by former President Barack Obama.
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| THE TRUMP FAMILY |
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DONALD
TRUMP JR.
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IVANKA
TRUMP
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JARED KUSHNER
“Jack of All Trades”
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STEPHEN
MILLER
Policy
Aide
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HOGAN GIDLEY
White House Spokesman |
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SARAH
HUCKABEE SANDERS White House Press Secretary
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No letup at 1600: The White House
didn't show any signs of backing down Tuesday, with Press Secretary Sarah
Huckabee Sanders repeatedly criticizing Corker over the Iran nuclear deal at
her regular media briefing, saying he "rolled out the red carpet" for
it as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
Pressed on whether Trump's feuds with Corker and other senators,
including McConnell, was jeopardizing tax reform, Sanders said the
administration remains committed to working with Congress on the issue. But she
quickly pivoted, putting the onus on Congress - in some harsh terms.
"I don't think he's alienating anyone," she said of
Trump. "I think that Congress has alienated themselves by not actually
getting the job done that the people of this country elected them to do. They
all promised and campaigned on repealing and replacing Obamacare; they haven't
done that. They've campaigned on tax reform; hopefully we see that happen.
We're certainly committed to that and think we'll get there. But time and time
again, Congress has made promises and failed to deliver."
She also said, "I think that we would all be a lot better
off if the Senate would stop taking vacations and start staying here until we
actually get some real things accomplished."
Asked directly about potentially losing Corker's vote on tax reform,
Sanders said: "Hopefully, [if] Senator Corker, who's been somebody who's
consistently talked about being a fiscal hawk, was presented with responsible
cuts ... he would certainly support those." [POLITICO's Morning Tax, October 11, 2017]
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TRUMP - RUSSIA PROBE
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PETTIFOGGING
MOUTHPIECES
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Russian interference in the 2016 election
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READ
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NORTH KOREA
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JAPAN
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BURMA (Myanmar)
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CHINA
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