HOUSTON — Republican Sens. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and John Cornyn of Texas talked energy, environmental regulations and their mutual concerns over tax reform proposals as CERAWeek by IHS Markit ended March 10.Both senators also voiced support from a modernized and updated version of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), which President Donald J. Trump has called the “worst trade deal maybe ever signed anywhere, but certainly ever signed in this country.”Cornyn said he has been encouraged to hear U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross say he’s in favor of updating NAFTA, “not throwing it in the waste bin.”Cornyn said the energy renaissance experience in North America is now in its earliest stages in Mexico, thanks to the government’s shift to allow foreign investment into the country.It’s also an example of how things have radically changed since NAFTA was enacted more than two decades ago, Cornyn said.
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March 10, 2017