look at sub-saharan africa right now, between the congo and what is going on in somalia now.e difficult times and try to figure things out. i am on -- an optimist, and i think we will eventually as a world are going to slowly figure it out. it just takes a long time. i want to be part of the process that says when you look back on your life and say, what did you do, you want to say, i participated. did we succeed? probably not. i never thought we would succeed completely but i always feel as if there is a chance. charlie: that is why you go into the arena. george: if you don't, it is easy to stand back and say it is hopeless. but i wasn't raised that way. charlie: you have to take your shots too. people will say, here he comes again. george: you cannot just be that person and every cause, as much as you would like to be involved. you have to pick them and you have to be informed on them. you have to immerse yourself. you have to go to the places spend time. there are mistakes you will make early. for the best intentions you will try to help one village which will throw out of

forsenate also voted proposals curving currency manipulation and boosting incentives to sub-saharan africaand paypal goes back to its roots. symbol pypl ticker its own again. those are your top stories. the u.s. currency is slamming to its lowest level in almost four months, a day after stagnant retail sales became the latest data to undermine prospects for fed rate increases. the decline is at its lowest level in almost three months against the euro. petertchir ofs green capital. sebastian, what happened? a lot of people were not expecting this lack. some were not expecting a, but some were. there's always a much time you can spend making money and winning before something goes wrong. when we saw oil rising and better data coming out of the eurozone, the combination force people out of their positions. we are pretty much our most a day away from the end of that process. alix: you have commodities move higher and a reflation trade that affects the bond market. what is the triple? saw moves as high as 185. i think the people were very comfortable being long on treasuries. when she started s

at that point, 12 million children in sub-saharan africa had been or fanned by aids.de, more than 30 million people were hiv positive. the disease left nothing by despair, ruin and fear in its wake. i saw it with my own eyes as i traveled to the hardest hit regions on behalf of my foundation and our grantees. in those years, the epidemic was only escalating until, in a time of great need and urgency, a republican president and a bipartisan majority in the united states congress created peptar. ft.'s emergency plan for aids relief. compassionat leaders from both sides of the aisle said to the international community, america can and america will lead the world in the global fight against aids. today, thanks to the unprecedented actions of congress, an hiv positive mother in south africa can give birth to a healthy hiv-free baby who can live -- she can live to raise. today, thanks to the generosity of the american people 9.4 million men, women and children have access to life-saving antiretroviral treatments. where there was once dispain, ruin and fear there is now hope

it's across sub-saharan africa. the nature of development needs to change the issue of education.t needs to change and governments need to be more responsible to the electorate including young africans to design policies and engage with the needs of younger people. >> spaniards are heading to the polls on sunday for regional elections. cutbacks and high unemployment are the key issues. there have been some signs of growth, many spaniards are skeptical over the country's economic recovery. nadim baba reports. >>> david is 40 years old and has a full-time job. that is looking for paid work in madrid. he's going from one short-term contract to another. he's taking his resume to anywhere he could think of. from estate agent to neighbourhood bars. he's luckier than most because his wife has a permanent job, while he gets unemployment benefit. something many are not entitled to. >> the worst case is the mind. long-term unemployment people with no state help. it's better to earn 250, no one can live on the amount. you have a job. >> we can pull. >> spain's government insists on doing all

it's the first light rail project in sub-saharan africa. >> the infrastructure is a reflects of government's ability to negotiate with financial institutions and countries like china, where massive borrowing and grants are coming in. 6,000 to 5,000km of road then construct. part of a government policy. most agricultural production takes place. ever you look the city drastically changed in of the past five years. development, property boom and economic growth form a trunk that government officials say will give them land slide victories in the elections. >> the country was known for poverty. it was hunger and sexist. it hasn't helped everyone. according to the united nations, 30% of ethiopia live in poverty. we met a woman who has four children and sells sawdust from a timber factory. on a good day she makes 1 usd. >> this is not work. we have to work all day, but can't find enough food. there's nothing else to do. >> it's that that triggers the exodus. europe is a destination for many migrating yooethans. it is an area under siege. many don't make it. the government says it's trying its best

now, for too long sub-saharan africa has been ignored as a trading partner by the united states. i've been to africa probably more than any of the other members have, in fact, there is something very critical of me just the last weekend in one of the presses if i can find it here i'll state what it was but anyway, they were critical of the attention i've been paying to africa. and i can remember where the united states had the same problem. we ignored africa. back when we were going into is the bosnia thing i was kind of leading the effort to keep americans from going into bosnia. this was back during the clinton administration. and their excuse they were using was we have to get into bosnia because of ethnic cleansing. i said on the senate floor i said for every person who has been ethnically cleansed in bosnia there are a hundred in west africa. just last weekend vice, a steer cal show on hbo tried to connect me to a law drafted by the parliamentary -- the parliament in uganda. somebody i've always opposed. however, there are things that are going on in all these countries that

enroll rural india and sub-saharan africa and rural china where there is just a need for electricity,a raw need for electricity. if i may go back to something david just said, although tesla's price point today seems high at $350 per kilowatt hour it was nearly five years ago where the costs were over $1000 per kilowatt hour. that means back then, it would have been over $10,000, near five years ago to put the same battery in your garage. when you look at the u.s., and california, if you are going over a certain peak load, you are paying an exorbitant extra cost for your electricity. there is a market in california today. if we can break into the market the cost will continue to drop down. emily: we will be monitoring that. jeff chamberlin of the joint center for energy storage research, thanks for joining us, as well as david gura from bloomberg television. coming up, it onto the road from linkedin. -- a bump on the road from linkedin. and could the spell the beginning of a trend? next. ♪ emily: this is "bloomberg west," i'm emily chang. extraordinary earnings for linkedin, and the f

to recall, qaddafi was himself an actor who across sub-saharan africa and beyond was forever pickingilitia, nonstate actors fermenting trouble. it was the libyan people who rose up, as we see in syria or yemen, once the spark has been lit, the idea that libya in 2011, one was going to stuff the revolution back any box if one had supported qaddafi or been acquiescent in the face of the slaughter he is intended to carry out is wishful thinking. charlie: there is no way we could have allowed him to go into benghazi. ambassador power: at the time, what you are looking at is what appears to be a near certain massacre. it is rare that a leader says here is what we are going to do. it was a defensible territory. you had the support of the entire international community. the un security council supported the military intervention. that is very different than what we have seen in syria, whether our divisions within the security council. with all of that, the president is making a judgment about to the benefits of acting out weigh the costs? the costs seems significant what would it mean to ha

sub-saharan africa 2.5%. south africa 0.7%. a very great extent what happens in the south african economy will be determined by how we are swept along by the tide and current that shapes local economic performance. distort the growth is predicted to unfold is therefore a story largely of developing economies but it is the growth that is spread equally across the developing regions. essentially a story of the and south asia china and india predicted this year by exceeding growth rates of 6% of gdp. developing europe sitting at about three not much going on in latin america. note is that 2.5. sub-saharan africa 4.5% but on as long as you leave south africa. it becomes the third region of the world together with east and south asia did not be exceeding growth rates of just over 6% of gdp. of course, before we take further steps, rv confident at all that we see in the growth numbers and projection is accurate? one of the concerns we ran across immediately is the that borne out by the price of copper. the numbers, the years about ac

an aid agency operating says the majorities of the arrivals are from sub-saharan africa arriving from libya. offer medical conditions are not great, enduring conditions. after being smuggled across the water. >> australia is doing most of the rescuing. over 5,000 people rescued. the weather is fine looks idyllic. it's dark. the seas are flat. it will means that thousands are setting off across the coast. it's concerning how to manage that. there's pressure for the e.u. to do more when they had the emergency meeting in response to 800 migrants dying in one day alone, one incident. they pledged is 10-point plan. it's a lot of talk. when it translates to an effect on the ground it has not done much. one of the agencies amnesty international responded saying it seemed like a face-saving operation, not a life-saving operation. certainly concerning at a time when we have had word from the head of frontex that the operation, the european border operation running and over a million people could be waiting on the other side of the mediterranean. it is a humanitarian crisis as people are straig

one of the aid agencies say the arrivals have been from sub-saharan africa mainly libya. medical health is not great. almost 2,000 of those rescued will be brought to sicily. smugglers are taking advantage of the good weather, and it is set to last. numbers reaching the shores are the highest it's ever been. thousands and thousands more will be attempting the crossing over the next few months. >>> the libyan coast guard brought 470 people back to sure who are trying to reach italy. we have more from misrarta. >> about 470 people were rescued by the libyan coast guard. they have sailed off in the middle of the night on board the zoedia. they have been -- zoediac. they have been brought to misrata. the question is where do the people go. the holding center in misrata is overcrowded. they'll have to be dispatched to other cities along the coast. this is a huge problem for this country. it doesn't have the capacity to deal with staggering numbers of people that want to cross the mediterranean, and they'll increase in the coming months because of the summer. we heard from offi

mainly people coming from sub-saharan africa fleeing war and poverty, travelling month, years, to earn the money to reach this point. some have been in prison some have been robbed. some have been raped. they have risked everything they had, everything the families own to come here to italy. and then italy is not their last point. from here most want to go further north either because they know people in other countries or they have relatives in other countries or they believe there's better job opportunities. >> that's what they want. where they want do go. briefly, what is likely to happen when they reach shore? >> when they first arrive here they'll go through a medical screening by the authorities. if there are minors they'll be taken to a specific place for the miners. the others will be dispersed across italy. the italian government called for empty buildings or locations to host the people to give time to the authorities to do fingerprinting and screening or identify the people. by and large most of them will try to leave and get on a train to wherever they want to go as quick a

it's a place where particularly sub-saharan africa should keep an eye on. while officials support blatter, many of the people in these countries have a negative view of sepp blatter, because they view the 2010 south african world cup as a place that was a money grab not unlike brazil in 2014, where a lot of money was spent to the detriment of the population. >>> if the vote is postponed or some members ab stain, do you think the prince ali of jordan is not a strong enough candidate. >> he was educate in the united states and graduated from a high school in connecticut. he's 39 years old. what is interesting, two stronger candidates dropped out last week in process of the voting process. i think they are kicking themselves now, because none of them thought that this kind of opening would be there. >> i'll be honours, six hours ago i would have said there's no way sepp blatter losses since that time. you have heard strong endorsements from prince hussain, from canada and other countries. to me it is open now, in f.i.f.a. no one knows what will happen it's cha

one of the aid agencies say the arrivals have been from sub-saharan africa, mainly arriving from libya. medical conditions are not great. italian are doing most of the rescues. over 5,000 are rescued. that means that thousands and thousands set off across the coast to make it here. it's concerning to manage that. i think there is pressure for the e.u. to do more. when they had the emergency meeting under two weeks ago in response to 800 migrants dying in one day alone, one incident they pledged a 10-point plan. it's a lot of talk. when it comes to translating an effect on the ground, it hasn't done much. amnesty international responded with a spokesman saying it seems like a face-saving operation, not a life-saving operation. extremely concerning at a time when we passed words. the european border operation and over a million could be waiting. it's something that needs to be taken seriously. it's a humanitarian crisis. italy does need help in dealing with it. >> staggering numbers. still ahead. badly needed supplies delivered to the victims of nepal's earthquake. reports that saudi ara

. >> you would say the same thing for parts of sub saharan africa as well. >> thank you very much.ate it. >> thank you. >> still ahead, the man deemed obama's secret weapon, what his detractors don't get about the iran nuke deal will join me next. that's it. whoa! what are you guys doing? we're making sure nothing sticks. otherwise we gotta scrub all this stuff off. dish issues? improved cascade platinum... powers through... your toughest, starchy messes... as if your dishes were non-stick. cascade. now that's clean. >>> a nuclear physicist emerged this year as president obama's secret in the iran talks. he's also responsible for overseeing america's nuclear arsenal and guiding the energy policy. i'm thrilled to tell you he joins me now. >> we'll start today with something that is in the news, which is this big oil spill in california, it is a spill from a pipeline. it looks like it's rather large, nothing on the scale say the valdez, we are told all the time how safe pipelines are. you look at this, and say, how safe are pipelines really, how safe are pipelines? >> by and large, p

it's not just ethiopia with 50% or more it's across sub-saharan africa. the nature of development needs to change. what are people being educated for, it needs to change but governments need to be more responsible to the electorate. including africans ethiopia to design policies and engage with people. >> it's great getting an insight. thank you for being with us. experts on migration for the school of orientation and african studies. >> the u.s. senate blocked a bill. ending the abilities to collect a phone record. it has one more chance to agree before the act expires. brent coulombe has -- patty culhane has more. we know that the government collects cellphone data all sorts of data. it has been successful to them. the spy agency says they can do that because the u.s. congress passed the patriot act. parts of that law are set to expire. including a decision allowing them to keep basic information on every phone in the u.s. proponents of the programme say it's needed. programs have been seriously vetted and given some significant oversight by both the ho

and we find out why students in asia have a better chance of success than those in sub saharan africa>>> a senior army official in burundi says president pierre nkurunziza has been removed. however, that statement was immediately dismissed as quote, a joke by the president's advisor. >> reporter: people in burundi's capitol are celebrating. they have heard that the military has removed president pierre nkurunziza. the state broadcaster has been surrounded by soldiers. violent scuffles have continued in the capitol since april. and in the skirmishes dozens have been killed and hundreds injured. the president's recent bid for office has caused the widespread unrest. and condemnation from african neighbors and world powers. the eac is trying to find a solution. the president is in tanzania when a former intelligence chief made the announcement. he was sacked in february but is still a powerful senior leader. he said the is committed to democracy and will form a transitional government to restore stability. >> i think many people may not be this executed about a the possibility of a coup.

a coup while the president is away is not a novelty in sub saharan africa. it has happened before. >> can you tell me more about the military in burundi? clearly they've taken a stand here. >> the army has long been lauded as one of the greatest successes of the agreement. the army is reputed for being disciplined, for being a republican army composed of remnants of the old military along with other armed groups who fought during the war. the fact that the army was able to remain neutral throughout this highly politicized crisis was remarkable. they also helped protect the civilians during the crisis, however, i think it needs to be kept in mind that that it is still the army, and one thing that we need to be cautious about is having a military being able to rule a country in a time of crisis. >> what are the president now? he is in a meeting of nations suspect he won't be coming back anytime sob, but what support does he have in the region? >> >> i think the african union is calling on them to reconsider their position on the third mandate. the african unio

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well indeed, the 17 tribute we conducted with refugees and migrants from all over sub-saharan africa,rom countries like nigeria but also people who come to libya in order to find better opportunities or indeed those fleeing conflict and persecution in their countries, and their countries of origin like somalia, sudan and syrians as well as that these people face widespread abuses at every single stage of their stay in libya or along the smuggling routes while trying to get into libya to then seek a better life. for the past two years, it was to find better opportunities in libya. but now as the conflict -- the several interconnected armed conflicts taking place in libya continue and the country is sent into further lawlessness, they find themselves more and more at risk of abuse so then they decide to put their lives in the hands of smugglers and then continue the journey to europe in order to find safety there. so the cases we have documented include, for instance, smugglers keeping groups of migrants and refugees in the deserts for several days of joe month in certain cases where th

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they will point to the large numbers of deaths in sub-saharan africa if you're allocating funds to try to know what the large number of people's are. but these are u.s. citizens. i am greatly appreciative initiative you doing there. but a question for you is, you mentioned rigorous evaluations. samhsa funds a lot of services. some people would argue that truly don't look at the root cause research wise in terms of -- the commission unsuccessfully tried to get an institute of medicine study focusing on this. we failed because we did not adequate engage with alaska native communities in developing this and explaining what this study was come explaining how committees are formed and how editorial control is done. dude you think an iom study if we tried it again would be a useful way to do a rigorous evaluation of this issue in the north? and voted on in that question is, very hard to get capacity, even if you have money oriented towards these problems, hard to get capacity. is no medical school and alaska. there's not a lot of investigators out in the lower 48 or capable or interested in

absolutely right, the fastest growing parts of the world, in terms of population, are places like sub-saharan africa, south asia, and these are places where almost everybody identifies with a faith. and so they are somewhat contrary trends. on the one hand the world population as a whole is over time becoming, if anything more religiously affiliated while western europe and the united states are becoming less. that does raise very interesting questions: will we be able to understand each other in the future? >> brown: very briefly, do you expect what you see happening, the trend here in the u.s. to continue? >> on demographic grounds yes. of course, there's a great deal that i don't pretend to be able to predict, but when we see the younger generations increasingly unaffiliated and even the younger mill -- millennials even more unaffiliated than older millennials, i see no reason in the immediate future that this will turn around. 50 years 100 years from now, i don't know. >> brown: we'll talk then. alan cooperman, serene jones thank you both very much. >> thank you, jeff. >> thank you. >> ifill: ne

the majority in developing worlds, sub saharan africa. so there will be country involveds the w.h.o. with their recommendation. if the w.h.o. comes out now and makes a recommendation to start everyone as soon as you find out they're h.i.v. infected that would be an incentive for individual countries to modify their policies, their health policies in their own countries because, in certain places, they won't pay for the anti-rerough re-- anti-retroviral if it's given at a certain level. so it's a great advantage for people to start early that's an important incentive for a variety of groups countries, organizations, et cetera. >> woodruff: how much pressure does it put on the u.s. and the u.s. government? or does sphit. >> well i think it does. i wouldn't say in the sense it puts pressure, but new decision making when people sit down and say what are we going to do vis-a-vis the recommendation you want solid scientific basis. so if good science and evidence is pressure then it's pressure. >> woodruff: at this point what do you do? in your

finally homesapien is 'originated in sub-saharan africa 200,000 years ago and at first humans congregated into families and later groups, tribes were formed, and were followed by larger and larger communities. nations brought more people together. and by the 20th century, soup practice national organizations such as the united nations are larger and larger in international politics. even if a civilization does emerge it might not develop the technology that would enable it to communicate with other intelligent beings in the universe. so in order to create advanced technology science must be practiced. isaac asemov argued the ability to produce fire distinguished humans from other animals. so in large part energy extraction determines the level of sophistication of a technological civilization. on that note, back in 1964, a russian as the -- based on methods of energy extraction. his scale has three categories. first the type one civilization can harness all available energy sources on it planet. at type two civilization harnesses energy directly from the stars and its solar system, not me

we talked about sub-saharan africa, we talked about asia. we haven't talked about russia, we haven't talked about the middle east. countries that don't even talk about it. we have no idea what the epidemic is like there but i have a suspicion that it is not great. but they don't talk about because it is, not part of their thing to admit that he have this a huge problem. so the more money that's given the more, once those figures are released and we don't know anything about china either. we have to maintain the funding. that is the biggest biggest thing we have to do. and we have to educate people and we have the stigma again. we have to make people feel that they're loved and not shamed. and that is a big issue. i think rick would agree with me that, what he does with his church is, the church preaches love. and that is what we must also do. but along with the funding which is so essential that is why i'm here today we're all hear today saying we hope that the united states government and congress and senate will not cut the funding of pepf

but the rates of infection in here in this country pale compared to other countries like sub-saharan africa africa, southeast asia, eastern europe, the chairman has pointed out the budget restraints that we have but that doesn't mean we suddenly, we do have a lot of money to spend we need to pick where we go but to make sure we use our best resources for both the ebola catastrophe those that realize it was relatively easy to do detect and contain especially before the experience symptoms so not if it will occur but where tb and fast to have public health partners with such a pandemic. we will pay more of millions of dollars spent. but also to be in the defense appropriations for who want to be here. every one of you works hard on these issues. you could find much easier things to tackle and i applaud you all. we have known each other aid number of years and you could sit back and relax. the you push us all the time for grey don't want to say anything about teeeighteen going after us on a moral issue but he has spoken in to me where our conscience should be on more than one occasion. that is

. >> rose: -- >> look at the sub saharan africa right now between the congo ands with's going on in somalia now. we are having difficult times and trying to figure things out. we have you know, i am an optimist and i think that we will eventually as a world, not we as in united states but we as the world are going to slowly figure it out. it just takes a long time. and so i want to be part of the process that when you look back on your life and they say well what did you do. i want to say will with i participated. you know did we succeed probably not not to are for the most part. i never thought we would succeed completely. but i always feel as if well there's a chance. >> that's why you go into the arena. >> sure, if you don't then it's really to stand back and say well it's just hopeless. but i wasn't raised that way. >> rose: but you have to take your shots too. you can't do everything. >> right. >> rose: because people will say there he comes again. >> you have to pick them. you can't just be that person in every xz at every cause, unfortunately. as much as you would like to be involved

sub-saharan africa? >> yes. north africa. i have a list of 144. i don't have them with me right now, sir. >> would you please submit that to the record and the numbers of those from these -- part of this obviously is international human smuggling operations. but also it could be disturbing to all of us to see how far away many of these illegal immigrants are coming across the border. does that concern you as well? >> it does, senator. i would be happy to provide that list to you. >> thank you. are you expecting another large number of children showing up on our border on our southern border in the next couple of months? >> senator, i'm confident at this point that based on where we are halfway through this year that we will not see the level of unaccompanied children and levels of family units that we saw last year. >> but you will see a significant number? >> again, if you're defining significant as -- if you compare that to 2010, 2011, it will be up above those levels, but it is going to be down over the preceding two years. >> i thank the witne

at at that time 12 million children in sub-saharan africa have been orphaned by aids.n leaders and declared aids to be a state of emergency worldwide more than 30 million people were hiv-positive. the disease left nothing but despair, ruin, and fear in its wake. i saw it with my own eyes as i traveled to the hardest hit regions on behalf of my foundation and our grantees. without the funds needed to make life-saving drugs available in africa my foundation invested in dramatically expanding palliative care on a hospice network. across south africa, uganda, and kenya we help give a dignified death to more than 800,000 men women, and children, and then we provided food food shelter, and basic education for over 3 million orphans left in their wake it was it was a compassionate response, but it did not solve the problem. in those years the epidemic was only escalating until at a time of great need an urgency a a republican president and a bipartisan majority in the united states congress created the president's emergency plan for aids relief. compassionate leaders from bot

we have talked about sub-saharan africa and asia. we have not talked about russia or the middle east. countries that don't even talk about -- and we have no idea what the epidemic is like there. what i have is this is -- i have a suspicion it is not great. they don't talk about it. the more money that is given the more -- once those figures are released -- and we don't know anything about china either. we have to maintain funding. that is the biggest thing we have to do. and we have to educate people. and we have to stigma again. we have to make people feel they are loved and not shamed. that is a big issue. and i think rick would agree with me. what he does with his church, the church preaches love here. along with funding which is so essential, we hope the united states government and congress will not cut funding at have far -- pepfar because it will be a complete disaster. it is a mixture of coming together everybody. other countries has to step up to the plate. america cannot do this on its own. i don't think that eu is doing en

markets to all of sub-saharan africa -- which i support and i've worked hard with the senator from georgia and many others to make possible -- that we also insure there isfective trade enforcement. this is a basic principle that underlies all of the proceedings here today that those of us who support free trade and an open global trade market also support fair trade and effective enforcement. and as the good senator from georgia recently commented, we are acting in reliance upon representation by the united states trade representative that there will be enforcement action taken, if appropriate on access to the markets in south africa. with that, i thank the president and yield the floor. >> is there an objection for the request of the majority leader? >> [inaudible] >> without objection so ordered. >> mr. president? >> senator from oregon. >> mr. president before he leaves the floor, i want to thank the senate majority leader for working with us in the constructive fashion to make it possible for all of the vital parts of the trade package to be considered. look forward to working closely

the program has helped to create more than two million jobs in sub-saharan africa. i worked with my colleagues on the finance committee to craft reauthorization language that will improve on agoa past success to remove obstacles to trade in sub-saharan africa and allow that region and our job creators here at home to benefit from expanded market access. i share many of my colleagues' belief that benefits under agoa should go to countries making good-faith progress toward meeting the program's eligibility criteria. for example i'm very concerned that offices in the republic of south africa recently indicated they will attempt to renegotiate commitments made under the general agreement on trade in services to require foreign-owned company to relinquish 51% ownership and control to south africans. south africa also developed a draft policy that proposed changes to intellectual property rights laws which contained significant shortcomings including inadequate protections for patents trademarks and copy rights. these are three areas i take a tremendous interest in, among

in fact that is why today we are awarding darley a sub-saharan africa export of the year award. let's give that company a round of applause. >> the opportunity isquestion is will america seize the opportunity and continue to lead in the global economy. the global middle class is expected to grow at more than 200 million people a year for the next five years. that's the size of the adult population of the united states growing year after year. they're going to need smart highways, power plants bridges satellite communications consumer goods. the demand will be unprecedented. who is going to step into the arena and meet that demand? the rewards are huge. a robust economy a vibrant manufacturing sector and most importantly, hundreds of thousands of good paying jobs. america can't afford to sit this race out. we need to use every tool in our arsenal to make sure that u.s. companies are able to get into the arena and win. ex-im is one of those tools. trade promotion authority and trade agreements such as the transpacific partnership are another. we cannot turn our back on american wo

we're going to proceed to the american growth and opportunity act that affords access to all sub-saharan africa that i support to make possible this is a basic principle underneath and also to support fair trade. n then recently commented with the representation and if appropriate and with that yield the floor. >> the senator from oregon. >> before he leaves the floor i want to thank the senate majority leader for working with us in a constructive fashion to make it possible for all of the vital parts of the trade package to be considered invalid for to working closely with him and colleagues, i will say that what has been done through the cooperation of the majority leader and minority leader is to say that trade enforcement is the first bill to be debated and in doing so it drives home yesterday's message of 13 pro trade democrats to together said that is the pre-requisite but in making this the first topic for debate is long overdue recognition that a vigorous trade enforcement has to be in the forefront not in the we are and the recognition that the 1980 nafta trade playbook is being set as