i'm a retired taxi cab e xecutive. i'm here to voice my official objection and protest against having to pay the annual taxi cab fee which for persons of my car is twice as much those who are not pre-k. the reason that i was given because the reason that i have to pay twice as much is because i don't have a driving requirement. no one has driving requirement anymore. nobody checks, nobody is p unished for not doing it. it's rightly so, there's no reason to do it. it's bogus and made up. i want to tell you about my personal circumstance. i started driving cabs in san francisco 1965. i did it as a summer job when i was in college and i liked it so much, i did it on and off again. i did other things. in 1976, i had the opportunity to actually buy a permit. the reason i wanted to do that because it meant freedom to the for me. freedom from having a boss and a schedule, the freedom to work as hard as i pleased. i was told i made good investment, it was my freedom. now i'm being punished for b uying my freedom by having to p

you that he because congress and the xecutive branch share policy making, but what's his beef? okay. the system is unfair. riders, tions are free other nations don't treat us in reciprocal manner. countries that are fabulous at xporting, like china and to the don't adhere rules and are too advantage of the system. that's really bad english. again?start they reap too much advantage system. i'm not going to dis any one of his arguments here. ask me about it later, but here's how he comes to these conclusions. he looks at deficits, but don't really measure trade. hey measure a whole lot of things. they also include how much a nation borrows, the strength of budget ency, the deficit, and something about people living in the united something very interesting and freaky about us, consume and love to we love to consume foreign goods and services. french cheese and hyundais, movies, okay. you get my point. is not an e deficit dequate means to assess what he's complaining about. all right. so his solution so these things, like is oesn't protectionism. okay with that if it's done in an a

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we shouldn't have some xecutive appointee negotiate a trade deal that undermines our state-based model. so that was the vision here of what we're trying to accomplish. in essence, we provide parameters to u.s. negotiators that prevent federal u.s. negotiators from -- negotiators from entering into an international insurance agreement unless it is consistent and reflective of the existing u.s. system of insurance regulation. so, again, it has to be consistent and reflective of our model. transparency in the international insurance negotiation process, as u.s. negotiators have to regularly inform congress as to the state and content of the negotiations that are being undertaken. and it also ensures that our state insurance regulators are closely consulted in the process of the international insurance standard setting. so this is a well crafted bill that took in concerns that both sides of the aisle had. i would just note, as a member of this chamber, and i think both sides feel this way, whether it's -- it was president clinton or bush or obim or now president bush, -- obama or now presi