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mm-hmm all right it looks like Speaker Nancy Pelosi is about to take to the podium I believe she's talking about the u.s. MCA which is the new trade deal to replace NAFTA let's take a listen good morning everyone this is a day we've all been working to and working for on the path to yes we were in range for a while but until we could cross a certain threshold of enforcement for our workers rights for environment and for the prescription drug issue as you know there were three of the areas that we had put out there I want to thank our Chairman Richie Neal chair of the Ways and Means Committee the eight members of the task force and I will acknowledge momentarily by thanking them for their leadership in negotiating on different segments of the legislation I also want to thank Richard Trumka the president of the afl-cio he was persistent dissatisfied knowledgeable he really got us to a place which is a far distance from where we started with the proposal that was given to us there is no question of course that this trade agreement is much better than NAFTA but in terms of our work here it is infinitely better than what was initially a Pope our proposed by the administration and I credit our chairman Richie Neal for helping us navigate all of these places the unity of our caucus on specific priorities in order to get the job done and again the brilliance brilliance and knowledge of Richard Trumka as to the ramifications of every provision that was in the legislation we'll be handing out the memo from the ways and means to you may have it which tell explains why we are so proud of the distance that we have come from where we started with the administration on this legislation it's a victory for America's workers it's one that we take great pride at great pride in advancing members of the the eight members of the task force congresswoman rosa DeLauro who has a markup in her committee about workers rights in appropriations of someone jan Schakowsky you'll be hearing from Mike Thompson of California Terri Sewell of Alabama Suzanne Bonamici of Aragon whom you'll be hearing from Jimmy Gomez of California be hearing from its wall where my others John Larson at John Larson of Connecticut Earl bloomin our of aragon one two three four five six seven eight here we are and now it's my honor to yield to Richey he was indeed a maestro to make all of this happen it's with great respect and admiration for his work and gratitude that I yield to the chairman of the Ways and Means Committee Virginia next madam Speaker thank you every once in a great while you get to participate in a it will never happen moment and we are witnessing that today the other value of Technology I will point out was after a round of intense finishing conversations and negotiations over the weekend that started on Saturday morning with the speaker myself and the trade rep Robert light Heiser we went back in mr. Trump got the speaker was he was on a hunting expedition we spoke with him frequently but the speaker talked to me earnestly about where near where near where near and on Sunday when Tom Brady was about to take it in all of a sudden I looked at my phone it said Pelosi for caller ID long wisdom tells me the hell with Brady take the call and I was watching Baltimore and so this is a transformative agreement it's a template I believe for future agreements our constant emphasis was on enforce ability and force ability and force ability we fixed that and the idea in the notion that the president of the AF of l-cio rich Trumka would be supportive of this initiative I think tells the story but this is more than a triumph for organized labor it's a triumph for workers everywhere across America in terms of the working group members I want to say that they strengthen the labor standards they strengthen the environmental chapters they enhance the verification mechanisms for environmental trade with the unflinching leadership of the speaker we also secured important changes in us MCA the preserve Congress's ability to change US law to address the crisis we're facing with respect to high prescription drug prices of the intense period of these negotiations with the administration I repeatedly emphasized that us MCA will deserve a vote because it's an agreement that Democrats shaped I don't think anybody on this Dyess would have said two months ago that we would have been able to get as far as we did in this negotiation it was based upon goodwill but also a determination that we acknowledged the problems that have existed in the past with enforceability and I was a very telling moment it was shared with the media on the day of the break in August with the working group I said to the trade rep the last meeting I said nothing has fostered more disagreement about trade than the lack of enforceability and the trade rep said to me you are absolutely right and he said I want to tell you and this is I think I'm not speaking out of school he said there have been people in the State Department the Defense Department and the Oval Office over the years who said don't get this one upset and don't get that one upset because we might need them on future Geographic issues he said our position has been that we are supportive of the thrust of what you want to do here and I think that the initiative that we offer his position I think the offering that we have in front of us today is indicative of the goodwill but some of the members on this task force and including the chairman of the subcommittee mr. bloom on our what a job they did these were intense argumentative angry negotiations I mean this got really hot on a number of occasions I think we set a world record for hanging up on each other myself in the trade rep and but at the same time we also knew that this was an opportunity that we couldn't let get away from us and we did that so we will continue to share more details in text the last point is a reminder that I traveled to Mexico with the delegation to meet the President of Mexico and then right after that I traveled to Canada to meet with the Prime Minister of Canada and the Minister for defense and trade free land they are I believe they were good partners in this they conceded just about to every point that we asked for because of the following enforceability enforceability enforceability so with that madam Speaker I'll turn it back to you