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… Ranking Member of the House Committee on Financial Services, will give her keynote address, which is a perfect capstone to today’s conference. First, though, I want to offer a few remarks on the significance of today’s discussion. First, I want to acknowledge the work of our Policy Department, and in particular our macroeconomist Tom Palley, for organizing this conference, not once, but … challenges facing monetary policy and the impact of currency manipulation are so significant I want to address them right now. And as we all know, the TPP simply fails to address this unfair trade practice, potentially locking the U.S. into …

… Thank you, Brother Mike [Langford] , for your overly kind words of introduction. Also, I want to thank you for inviting me to this important convention, and to thank the UWUA for hosting us all. Lastly, I am glad to … it all, as working people and as a labor movement. Politics matter, elections matter, and I’m going to ask you to get to work, when you get back to your locals, to fill your phone bank with volunteers, to knock on doors, to leaflet your … to make sure America’s natural gas infrastructure is reliable and our neighborhoods are safe. Those priorities require the right leaders, leaders who listen to working families, who sit across the table from us, to turn our priorities into …