CD209: USMCA with Lori Wallach

Congressional Dish

Jennifer Briney

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🗓️ 23 February 2020

⏱️ 69 minutes

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The Trump administration renegotiated NAFTA and the 116th Congress passed those changes in order to make the USMCA into law. In this episode, international trade expert Lori Wallach, the Director of Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch, joins Jen to explain the differences between NAFTA and the USMCA. What you hear may surprise you. Please Support Congressional Dish – Quick Links to contribute monthly or a lump sum via to support Congressional Dish for each episode via Patreon Send payments to: Send payments to: @Jennifer-Briney Send payments to: $CongressionalDish or Use your bank’s online bill pay function to mail contributions to: Please make checks payable to Congressional Dish Thank you for supporting truly independent media! Recommended Congressional Dish Episodes Fast Tracking Fast Track (Trade Promotion Authority The World Trade Organization: COOL? The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Bills Bill: Congress.gov, January 16, 2020 About Lori Wallach , Linked In , Public Citizen , Public Citizen , Public Citizen , Influence Watch , Facebook , Twitter , Twitter , Instagram Articles/Documents Article: By Barbara Duckworth, The Western Producer, February 13, 2020 Article: By Lori Wallach, The Globalist, January 24, 2020 Article: By Cathy Siegner, FoodDive, November 5, 2019 Article: Public Citizen Article: By Erica Shaffer, Meat + Poultry, November 4, 2019 Article: by David Dayen, The American Prospect, October 31, 2019 Article: by Raymond Arke, OpenSecrets.org, May 8, 2019 Article: by Tom Miles, Reuters, December 14, 2018 Article: by Ana Swanson, The New York Times, March 9, 2018 Document: By M. Angeles Villarreal and Ian F. Fergusson, Congressional Research Service, May 24, 2017 Article: By Victoria Guida, POLITICO, March 14, 2017 Article: By Amiti Sen, New Scientist, November 11, 2016 Document: By Joel L. Greene, Congressional Research Service, December 8, 2015 Article: By Padma Tata, New Scientist, March 29, 2005 Additional Resources Vote Results: United States Senate, January 16, 2020 Vote Results: House of Representatives Clerk, December 19, 2019 Trade Agreement: Office of the United States Trade Representative, December 13, 2019 Cover Art Design by Only Child Imaginations Music Presented in This Episode Intro & Exit: by (found on by mevio)

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0:00.0	The new NAFTA is certainly not a good agreement.
0:04.0	It's not going to create jobs.
0:05.0	It's not going to stop the outsourcing.
0:08.0	It's on the margin improvement.
0:10.0	It will stop a bunch of bad ISDS cases.
0:12.0	But the way to think about it is it's will stop a bunch of bad ISDS cases.
0:12.8	But the way to think about it is it's a new floor.
0:16.3	It's no template going forward.
0:18.8	But it's a new floor we can fight from.
0:20.9	Because up until now, our agreements have had all these big
0:23.6	farmer giveaways and we haven't had any kind of labor and environmental standards
0:27.4	to speak of and they've all had ISDS. So we fixed some things relative to the original NAFTA and now we have a big fight going forward to actually get to agreements we'd want and like
0:39.1	Versus in the case of the NAFTA fight it was about limiting the damage of a terrible agreement
0:44.7	and now making it a not very good agreement. of being lied too.
0:59.0	I don't think I can't deny it anymore.
1:07.0	You can't stick to your story if you think it flies.
1:15.0	But I'm not going to buy it anymore.
1:20.0	Hello, my friends and thank you for listening to the 209th episode of Congressional Dish.
1:22.0	I'm your host Jennifer Briny. If you are new to
1:25.6	Congressional Dish, if this is your first time listening to this show, this is a show about
1:29.2	what Congress does and how it affects us peasants.
1:33.4	And for the last few weeks I've been focusing on war
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