with globalization. >> what is the new tactic he will use? are you focused on getting democrats -- the program will end in september or when to get republicans to change their position? >> what is served us well in this process in terms of passing tpa through the senate, passing taa through the senate, passing tpa through the house, that is an indication that our strategy has worked. we obviously have more work to do. our strategy has been to make the case to democrats and republicans about why they should support this legislation. there are arguments that republicans find more persuasive and once the democrats find more persuasive. that means that there are a lot

of reasons to support it. the same applies when it comes to taa. this also is not about trying to scare people. this is about raising a legitimate concern. this is a piece of legislation -- a program that previously was supported by every single democrat that is set to expire at the end of september. what the president has advocated is not just preventing the lapse of that program, the president has put forward a proposal with a specific pay form that was worked out between leaders to significantly expand the program in a way that would double the amount of money available. and in a way that would allow 17,000 people who have previously applications rejected to have applications reconsidered. these are 17,000 workers who are

in need right now. we can set about the work of trying to consider eligibility under a different set of circumstances. that is going to open up access to important benefits to more people. that is entirely consistent with the kinds of progressive values the president has championed and that window are supported by members of the house. >> when leader pelosi was on the floor, she was talking about trying to get a better feel for workers. has she asked you or is she seeking more money or a greater package? is there something you can offer her? i am not aware of specific requests she made. this is in part of the conversations she is have a speaker boehner. it is possible that there may be

requests from the white house. the case we would make would be focused on the amount of benefits that are included. we will send you the letter from the secretary detailing the extensive assistance that would be offered in explaining how it is not just a renewal of your previously-past package but is a significant expansion. >> i want to bring your attention to something that one of your supporter said. today's vote -- the president, so i am wondering, how do you square the claim that the strategy is working when your allies are saying or suggesting that the president's persuasion is diminished? >> all it would do is encourage them to consider the track record. that over the last month, we have seen that the senate came

together and beat the odds and built a bipartisan majority. the senate came together to build the majority. today, they came together -- even in the face of intense skepticism. the remaining block -- one that i can acknowledge is when it comes to justices, but as i have done, we have a very strong case to make the democrats about how middle-class families all across the country would benefit significantly from the proposed expansion of trade adjustment. we will make the case that they should support it. >> after today's vote leaders have come out and taken a position on trade. hillary clinton is the front runner to be the future leader of the democratic party, she would benefit from fast track authority she became president.

how would it affect things in the house if she cannot into the position and is president obama satisfied with the leadership being showed right now? >> we would be very concerned about the position of secretary clinton if she had a vote in the house of representatives. if she did, she would be subject to aggressive lobbying campaigns by the president down. we would be optimistic about the persuasive case we would make. unfortunately, she does not have a vote in the house of representatives. she is doing what is she is supposed to be doing, which is focusing on running a campaign. >> you don't think it would be influential to house members? she would be at the top of the ticket. >> it is entirely possible --

she is obviously a significant figure in the party and people care about what she has to say. but she is focused on running her campaign and is not focused on influencing votes. that means she has her priorities straight. >> as others have mentioned, there is a perception that throughout his term, the president has not engaged much with members of congress and you have contested that perception of why is that so widespread? >> friendly, i don't know. i think that what the president has pursued is a strategy that has saw to engage members of congress on important legislative fire and i think that has been on full display not just in the last 24 hours but over the last several weeks on this particular trade issue. it has served us well in terms of the success we have had.

we have additional work to do on the house but we are pleased with the work we have done so far. >> something that has come up in the course of debate is something paul ryan addressed. whether tpa down the road would allow them to implement climate rules or immigration rules i wanted to ask from the white house perspective, was the white house ever consider using future trade deals for climate or immigration? >> my understanding is that there are specific language that prohibits that. this is a good example of where they are significant disagreements between democrats

and republicans. we have made clear that we believe immigration reform is a priority because of economic benefits it would shower on our economy. we have made clear that climate change is a top priority. the president has sod aggressively to make progress in those areas. he did not need tpa to do it. the president will continue to advocate dealing with causes of climate change and the president will continue to implement many of the executive actions that he announced last year to reform our broken immigration system. that is what he is focused on. there have been a lot of acronyms today.

the president will attend the graduation for the 2015 white house mentoring and leadership program. he will attend meetings at the white house on tuesday. on wednesday, the president will deliver remarks at a ceremony for loretta lynch. at the warner theatre. i wednesday evening, the president will host a picnic for members of congress. so that will be fun. on thursday, the president will travel to los angeles to attend a handful of events, spending thursday night in los angeles. on friday, the president is scheduled to travel to san francisco to deliver remarks at the annual meeting at the conference of mayors as well as attend democratic party events. additional details about the trip to california next week.

we'll trade be the weekly address subject? >> i don't know. but we will hear shortly. thank you. have a great weekend. >> the house has to railed a trade bill backed by the white house with democratic leader nancy pelosi and dozens of other democrats voting against the president's wishes. the vote came a few hours after president obama went to the capital to appeal for democrats to give him power to negotiate trade deals that congress could approve or reject but not change. the trade promotion authority bill passed 219-two hundred 11, but they rejected the trade adjustment assistance measure. under the rules in effect, the overall legislation previously approved by the senate could not advance to the white house unless both halves were agreed

to. here is the debate on both measures. this portion is 25 minutes. >> mrs. speaker, the question before us today, it is simple. is america going to shape the global economy? oryza going to shape us? 95% of the world's consumers do not live in this country, they live in other countries. if we want to create more jobs in america, we have to make more things here and seldom over there. in fact, one out of every five jobs in america already depends on trade. that is a good thing. because these jobs pay more. they pay on average 18% more. but while the world is moving

full steam ahead, we have been standing still, mr. speaker, we haven't completed a trade agreement in years. today there are 262 free trade agreements in place across the world. we are party to 14. since 2007 when the last version of trade promotion authority expired, there have been 100 trade agreements negotiated and signed. the u.s. is a party to none of those. china is negotiating seven agreements right now, including one with 16 countries. in the global economy, if you are standing still, you are falling behind. because all these other countries are negotiating agreements without us. what that basically means is other countries are lowering their trade barriers between

those countries and as a result of them lowering their trade barriers, making their products more affordable, getting more market share, they are putting up barriers against our products. making it harder for us to get access to those markets. look, big companies can set up a factory in another country, make something there, and sell it there. getting trade agreements means we move those barriers so we keep those factories here, so all businesses, big and small, can make things in america, grow things in america, and sell them overseas. let me just give you an example. since the year 2000, there have been 48 trade agreements in east asia alone. america has been a party to overwhelm two of them. and as a result of that -- only two of them. as a result of that our share of imports fell by 42%. the rules of the global economy, they are being written right now, mr.speaker. that's not the question.

the question is, are we going to write the rules of the global economy with our allies? or are we going to let other countries write the rules such as china? this is why h.r. 1314, the trade act, would establish t.p.a., or trade promotion authority. now, there's been a lot of confusion about this bill. a lot of honest confusion and sometimes a lot of intentional confusion. let me say really clearly what this bill is. t.p.a. is not a trade deal. t.p.a. is not a trade agreement. t.p.a. is a process for negotiating a trade agreement. congress is not considering a trade agreement today. there is no secret agreement that nobody has read that's being voted on today. all we are voting on today is a process by which congress considers trade agreements. the earliest we would do so

would be in the fall at the earliest. why should we care about this process? because a good process gets us a good result. this t.p.a. will give us the leverage that we in congress need to get a fair deal for the american worker. because when other countries know that the deal that they agreed to is the deal congress will vote on, they will give us their best offers. countries aren't going to give us a good agreement if they have to negotiate with 536 people. here's how it works. congress says to the president when you submit a trade agreement, we will give you an up or down vote on three conditions. first, you have got to pursue specific negotiating objectives. 150 of them. here's what we want to see in a trade agreement and here's what cannot be in a trade agreement. second, you've got to keep us informed. you have to regularly consult with congress. congress must have access to all the negotiating text.

right now, it's whatever the administration chooses to give us. they control it. they decide on their terms with t.p.a., congress says, no, no, no. we in congress get access to these negotiating documents while it's being negotiated. we in congress are accredited to go to the negotiation it is we want to. and with the zinke prote -- protocol, if we can't make it we'll send representatives to these negotiations. third, and perhaps most importantly, transparency. the old days they used to call this thing fast track. the president goes out and gets an agreement and then, wham, whizzes it through, have congress vote on it, it's in law. everybody is wondering what just happened? what's in this thing? not again. no more. when an agreement is reached when america gets an agreement with other countries, before the president can even sign off on

it, we make it publicly -- public for 60 days, up on the internet, everybody can read it for themselves and see what it is. that's in this law. never done that before. and then the president can sign it. but when he signs it, it doesn't go into effect. when he signs it it just means he sends it to congress. and then congress considers it. congress considers it and congress determines whether it's going to happen or not. it's a bill like any other bill. congress has to pass it. they have to affirmatively pass it for it to go into effect. if the house of representatives doesn't like the trade agreement, and they vote it down with a simple majority vote, it doesn't happen. that's what this bill does. we have the final say. now, i understand a lot of our members, certainly on our side of the aisle, they don't trust this administration. join the club. neither do i. that is precisely why i support this bill. t.p.a. puts congress in the driver's seat.

mr. speaker, the world is watching this. the world is watching whether or not, and they are trying to make a decision, is america still america? or is america in retreat? our allies want our leadership. our adversaries are measuring how much we stack up. our enemies would love for us to retreat. the world is watching as to whether or not america is going to lead in the world, whether america in the dawn of the 21st century is going to take command of writing the rules of the global economy or cede that command to other countries. if we establish t.p.a., we are saying on a bipartisan basis, we want america to lead. we believe in our country. we believe in our workers. we believe in our economy.

we want to open up markets so that we can use american ingenuity and american work to create american jobs. so we can sell our goods and our services, our products overseas. so we can create more good paying jobs here at home. that's what this is about. it's about getting us on the playing field. 100 trade agreements negotiated, signed, since 2007. we are a party to zero of those. the rest of the world is moving around. the rest of the world is getting better deals. the rest of the world is freezing us out. we have to get back in this game and lead this game and define this game. with that, mr. speaker, i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from wisconsin reserves his time. the chair recognizes the gentleman from michigan. mr. levin: i allocate as much time as i use to myself. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for as much time as he wishes to use.

mr. levin: i have worked in all my years here to expand trade in ways that spread its benefits to the many not just to the few. charlie rangel and i led the fight to include strong and enforcible labor and environmental provisions and to strike the right balance between innovation and access to medicines in the historic may 10 agreement of 2007. the trouble with this t.p.a. is that it means no meaningful provisions whatsoever in t.p.p. on currency manipulation, which has destroyed millions of middle class american jobs and allows investors to challenge american health and environmental regulations and others not through the american legal system but through unregulated arbitration panels. it's about a t.p.p. going in the wrong direction on access to medicines and in some important

ways environmental protections. and it's about countries like mexico that deny their workers basic labor rights to gain and uncompetitive advantage over our companies and workers. and vietnam and ma lashesea who stand in clear violation of the may 10 provisions on international worker rights with no plan we know of. in that sense it's secret of a t.p.p. to change that. far from a progressive trade agreement. on this and every other area in t.p.p. they are left to be determined whether they were met by those who did the negotiating, and i just want to say these negotiating objectives are so vague they are meaningless and

to hold them up is something that holds ustr to action is simply a mirage. instead of passing this bill which gives a blank check to the administration to finish up t.p.p. negotiations where they are now and leaves congress with only an up or down vote at the end, we should be using our leverage to impact the negotiations. this bill does not do that. we in congress, despite all the rhetoric, all the rhetoric, we in congress will be in the backseat, not in the falsely claimed driver seat. this is what this is all about not protectionism versus free trade, not reflective opposition as sometimes claimed to expand a

trade. i've worked for expanded trade. quite the opposite. i want a t.p.p. that is worthy of broad bipartisan support. as to t.a.a., proponents of t.p.a., they're the ones who linked the two together in a single bill. t.a.a. should not be a bargaining chip to get a deeply flawed t.p.a. across the finished line and that's how this has been set up. this t.p.a. should stand on its own feet. even in its best form, t.a.a. was a modest program and i was one of the authors supporting it. but this t.a.a. bill includes a number of shortcomings compared to the high water mark of the program. despite the fact that the need in this country is growing and trade is expanding. the truth of the matter is we need to do far more to train and

educate our workers and to invest in our future in order to compete in a global economy. a no vote will give us an opportunity, another opportunity to improve t.a.a. and t.p.a. and to achieve our ultimate goal that i and others have been working for months and months and months and months, and that's the goal, a strong t.p.p. agreement that can gain broad bipartisan support. i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. the chair recognizes the gentleman from wisconsin. the gentleman from wisconsin is recognized. mr. ryan: are we not ready to recess?

mr. ryan: mr. speaker, let me inquire as to the time allotment between the two at this time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from wisconsin has 21 1/2 minutes. mr. ryan: 21 1/2? the gentleman from michigan? the speaker pro tempore: 25 for the gentleman from michigan. mr. ryan: would the gentleman from michigan want to equalize and yield some time to one of his speakers? mr. levin: ok. i yield two minutes to the gentleman from texas, mr. doggett. mr. doggett: thank you. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas is recognized for two minutes. mr. doggett: mr. speaker, some have called trade adjustment assistance burial insurance

since it delivers limited help after a job is dead and buried. at a time when fast trackers are claiming that they will include over half of the world economy we need a t.a.a. that is funded for more workers at risk of job loss. unfortunately this particular t.a.a. proposal is really short for taking away assistance. it includes substantially less funding than the administration has said was essential to protect those who lose their jobs through expanded trade. further, this t.a.a. fails to restore coverage to thousands whose jobs may be exported. in a very contrived process this morning, designed to obscure what's really happening and to remove accountability from members of this house, desperate fast trackers and fast talkers

have split up the senate bill into two pieces, two votes before they put it back together in exactly the same form it was when it first got to the house and along the way they have some self-executing rule so that it appears that members are not voting to do what they're doing. the first vote we take today is -- at the end of this debate is on t.a.a. vote no. your vote no offers an opportunity to achieve both better trade adjustment assistance and better trade legislation. and your vote no will also assure you are not on record as voting to send a bill, which was exactly what will happen if you vote yes, to send a bill to the president that cuts medicare by $700 million. reject this bill and develop a better alternative that reflects our values and 21st century economic realities. what really needs adjusting here

today is the no compromise, no amendment attitude on trade. this vote wouldn't be so close if this process hasn't been so closed. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman from michigan reserves his time, and the gentleman from wisconsin is recognized. mr. ryan: i'd like to yield two minutes to the former of the chairman -- former chairman 69 trade subcommittee, the gentleman from california, mr. nunes. the speaker pro tempore: for how much time? mr. ryan: two minutes. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for two minutes. mr. nunes: thank you, mr. speaker. this is a time where everyone needs to step back in this body and really relies what we're here to do today. this is a historic moment. we will either move forward with our allies, with our partners, with our trading partners or we will move back. t.p.a. is just one step, it's a step that we must have in order to pass additional trade agreements that we've been doing throughout our history.

if you look at where we're at today, this is about trade promotion authority. people will have plenty of time to look at whatever trade agreements come down the pipe over the next five years. that's what this debate's about. and why do we need trade agreements? because we need to reduce tariffs on products that are made in the united states so that we have a better opportunity to export them overseas. but mr.speaker, this agreement has geopolitical concerns also. and what that's really about, if you look down the road at the first trade agreement that was supposed to come up, it's supposed to be the trans-pacific partnership. today if you look at what our partners and allies in asia are dealing with, they're dealing with a behemoth in china and china doesn't want to play by the rules. they consistently have avoided playing by the rules, which is putting our allies at risk and our trading partners at risk

which is why we need to come together and pass an agreement that puts -- if you pass the trans-pacific partnership and the e.u. agreement, you will have them under one set of rules and that's what this is really about. we move to the trans-pacific partnership. we move to the european agreement. we get 2/3 of the world's economy under the same set of rules. so i hope that my colleagues will step back and just, you know, stop all the rhetoric on both sides of the aisle, on one side we have people who are clearly representing the labor unions. on the other side we have people who don't want to give the president a victory. but today, mr. speaker, is a time where we need to step back and do the right thing for the right reasons for the american people. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman from wisconsin reserves. the gentleman from michigan is recognized. mr. levin: mr. speaker, may i just ask unanimous consent that mr.

tiberi be permitted to control time on our side? the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. and the gentleman from michigan is recognized. mr.levin: i yield two minutes to a member of our committee, mr. kind of wisconsin. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for two minutes. mr.kind: i thank my friend for yielding. thank you, mr. speaker. i rise in support of legislation, trade promotion authority as well as trade adjustment assistance. what we are debating and what we have to decide upon today is whether to grant this president, this administration the same type of trade negotiating authority that every president since f.d.r., minus richard nixon, has enjoyed. as a democrat who has supported this administration, i wonder why we would not at least have a modicum of trust for this president to try and go get the best deal he can. we will have an opportunity later to analyze any agreement that's reached to make sure it makes sense for our constituents, for our states and ultimately for our count but let's be clear here. we are already trading with

these nations, vietnam malaysia. the question moving forward now is what the rules of trade are going to be and that's why we need to be at the table negotiating those rules, elevating standards and now we're going to be negotiating core labor, environmental and human rights standards in the body of the agreement, fully enforceable like any other provision in it. and it's something we lacked in past trade agreements. when president obama first ran for election he was hoping for an opportunity to go back and amend nafta because he felt, as i do, there were deficiencies in that agreement. this is the opportunity to go back and amend the problems that nafta created. the lack of core labor or environmental standards, especially as it related with mexico. so we need to be clear that this is an opportunity to move forward, getting the rules of trade and the standards elevated up to where we are so we have a level playing field for our workers, our farmers, our businesses to compete.

otherwise, the alternative is a race to the bottom with no rules at all or possibly with china's rules, and that ultimately are the choices we face here today -- to move forward with this authority, to move forward with these trade agreements elevating standards to where we are or end up in a global trading system with no rules or china's rules. that would be a race to the bottom and we will not be able to compete very effectively in it. i encourage my colleagues to support the legislation today so we can level the playing field for those at home. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from michigan reserves his time. the chair recognizes the gentleman from ohio. mr.tiberi: thank you. it's my honor to ack knowledge and -- acknowledge and speak on this issue, a member of the ways and means committee and a great partner in trying to open up and break down barriers around the world, mr. young from indiana. the speaker pro tempore: how much time? mr.tiberi: i yield him one minute. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for one minute.

mr.young: i rise in support of h.r. 1314, the trade act of 2015, and h.r. 644, the trade facilitation and trade enforcement act. with 96% of the world's customers living outside of the united states remains vital for congress to facilitate free trade agreements through the passage of trade promotion authority. absent t.p.a., america will continue to sit on the sidelines while the rest of the world negotiates free trade agreements and opens additional markets. in my home state of indiana, we have the largest per capita manufacturers in the united states. in the hoosier state, exporting manufacturing goods supports 22% of our manufacturing jobs. one out of every five. our hoosier farmers export over $3.6 billion across our five largest agricultural export sectors. at the end of the day, trade equals jobs.

congress must pass t.p.a. to empower our negotiators to receive the best deal possible for american families and job creators. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. mr. young: request an additional 30 seconds. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for 30 seconds. mr. young: i want to further say i was proud to work with chairman ryan to ensure the house was able to include language within this act to ensure that no future free trade agreement can include language for back door, cap and trade agreements. we included language that would prevent this. it would negatively impact states like indiana which is the second largest user of coal in the united states. i look forward to voting in support of this vital legislation, and i yield back my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back his time. the gentleman from ohio reserves his time. the chair recognizes the gentleman from michigan. mr.levin: mr.speaker, i think there's been agreement between the two parties that we could recess.

the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to rule 19 scene, further motions are postponed. announcer: at this point, the house when did teresa so that president obama could be with house democrats to urge them to support the measures. here he is arriving. democrats said he urge them to support the package for assistance for reports or lose their jobs as a result of trade units that vote means ultimate passage of the entire trade bill. some democrats opposed the trade bill, concern that it would send jobs overseas. following the meeting with the president, the four debate resumed. this portion is over 45 minutes. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2015] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] >> in any trade, both sides go away with something of greater

value to themselves of the trade would not take place. more markets for american products means more jobs and higher wages for american workers. more products entering our economy means more consumer choices and lower prices. trade agreements make trade possible. but the authority to effectively negotiate trade agreements left years ago, handicapping america ever since. this is not some new power, it just restores the same negotiating process that has served us well since the 1930's. a lot of people confuse the tpa with the tpp, that is a trade agreement that has not even been finalized. if it is finalized, this bill assures that it has to meet one hundred 50 congressionally-mandated conditions and be available forever be american to read for at least 60 days before congress boats to approve or reject it. tpa tells world markets america is back.

>> the gentleman from michigan. >> i yield 1.5 minutes of the most distinguished member from georgia, mr. lewis. >> the gentleman from georgia is recognized for 1.5 minutes. >> i want to thank my friend and ranking member for yielding. mr. speaker i rise in strong opposition to the fast track amendment written 20 years ago, i stood on this very house floor in opposition to nafta. i felt strongly then as i do now that these agreements are about more than trade, they are a reflection of our values. let me be clear, i am for trade since nafta i have opposed some agreement and supported others. but i'm not for trade at any cost. those on the ways and means committee tried time and time again to make this legislation better.

but mine and every single democrat amendment was rejected. mr.speaker, i visited vietnam and i know there's much work to be done. there's no freedom to organize freedom of speech is limited. the people of georgia are calling and writing my office in waves. for over 20 years, textile and automobile factories disappeared from metro atlanta. jobs were shipped to bangladesh to china to mexico. america should not have to compete with starvation wages and environmental destruction. mr.speaker, i do not know about you, but as joshua of old said as for me and my house i'm going to cast my lot with the working people of america. today we have an opportunity to do what is right and what is just. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for 15 seconds.

mr.lewis: trade policy should reflect our values, human rights and trade has always been connected. this is not new. this planet is not ours to waste. not to use what we need and leave this planet a little greener and a little more peaceful for generations. this should be a headlight and not a taillight. i urge each and every member of this congress to do what is right, stand up for the working people of our country and i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from ohio. mr.tiberi: thank you. i yield one minute to a leader on trade, ways and means subcommittee, the gentleman from minnesota, mr. paulsen for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from minnesota is recognized for one minute. mr.paulsen: thank you, mr.speaker, members. you know, it is difficult to overstate the importance of trade with other countries. you know, the benefits of trade are huge and enormous for our economy. if you take the trade we have, you add them, we have a trade

surplus. if you take the trade agreements -- the nontrade agreements with the countries we don't have trade agreements with we have a deficit. there's no doubt that u.s. has been on the sidelines in recent years. this gets us back in the game, making us create a healthier economy here at home, changing and making sure that our status as a global leader will be right back on top, higher paying jobs, better paying jobs and this is an opportunity, also, to make sure that united states is setting the rules for our economy, for the world economy instead of china. mr.speaker, if you're for these things, you should be for this legislation. trade promotion authority allows these agreements to move forward with congressional oversight and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from michigan. mr.levin: i now yield a minute and a half to the gentleman from illinois, a member of our committee, mr. davis. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from illinois is recognized for 1 1/2 minutes. mr.davis: thank you, mr.speaker. and i rise in strong opposition

to the trade bill before us. i'm also in opposition to using one cent of medicare money for anything other than paying for represent. i want a trade bill that creates fair wages and opportunities for employment. i don't want a bill that continues to help the rich get richer and the poor get poorer and the middle class gets squeezed into oblivion. and i don't want to fast track. as a matter of fact, the jobs and economic development have left the communities i represent fast enough.

they don't need our help, and they don't need to be gone. we need jobs in america. i'm going to vote against this and if i do and if it's the wrong vote, i'm going to be voting with the people that i represent, the people who sent me here, the people who have said, represent us. they want a no vote. i vote no because i represent them. and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from ohio. mr.tiberi: thank you mr.speaker. i now yield one minute to the gentleman from nebraska, mr. smith, a leader on trade, a member of the ways and means and trade subcommittee. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from nebraska is recognized for one minute. mr.smith: mr.speaker, i rise today in support of the trade act of 2015. we have the opportunity to remove major trade barriers which make it harder to sell u.s. products to consumers in other countries. to grow our economy, we must expand our access to 96% of consumers outside the united states.

nebraska's producers, farmers ranchers and others want to serve new markets, and this bill is an important step forward. a number of concerns have been raised, and i want to clarify a couple of points. many nebraskans are concerned about the president's actions on a number of issues. to address these concerns, we need to actually pass this bill and establish more than 150 congressional parameters that the president will be required to follow as trade negotiations take place. some might be concerned that no one is allowed to read proposed trade agreements. we must pass this bill actually, to ensure that every member of this body has full access to negotiating text and any final agreement is publicly posted online for 60 days before the president can sign it. this bill also ensures we have a up or down vote on any trade agreement and contains new provisions if the executive branch doesn't follow our rules. this bill is an important step for opportunity and growth, and i yield a aye vote.

the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman from michigan. mr.levin: mr.speaker, i now yield two minutes to another valid member of our committee, mr.blumenauer from oregon. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from oregon is recognized for two minutes. mr.blumenauer: thank you. democrats just left a very powerful presentation from the president of the united states to our members who simply ask that our members vote their -- play it straight. vote for things they believe in. for instance, 125 democrats voted for trade adjustment assistance to help workers displaced because of things in the global economy. we have a provision before us today that is actually stronger than what 125 of us voted for before, and yet there are some that are thinking, well, they may not vote for it. i have ads run against me for cutting medicare and yet i'm going to ask to enter a letter from the american hospital

association, american medical association, american home care and hospice to point out there were no cuts to medicare because of the changes we are involved in making. now, this is part of the problem we're having dealing with how to concern trade promotion authority. this is something that all of us should embrace. it sets the rules for the administration to negotiate and how we'll evaluate it. it will guarantee, as my friend from nebraska just pointed out everybody in america will have almost five full months to look at it before it's ever voted on. and it contains the strongest environmental and labor provisions of any trade provisions in history. that is what people talk to me about when they wanted nafta fixed. trade promotion authority that we have here will do it. it is very important.

i have not stopped working to improve this package. i've got things i want to change, work with the senate work in conference committee and if we ever get an agreement, then i will evaluate the t.p.p. based on what's in it, not explanation, innuendo and reckless charges. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. without objection, the gentleman's reference to the letter will be entered into the record. the gentleman from ohio. mr.tiberi: thank you mr.speaker. i yield one minute to the gentleman from illinois, a new member of the ways and means committee, bob dold. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from illinois is recognized for one minute. mr.dold: thank you, mr.speaker. mr.speaker, we want to make sure that we're moving forward and providing american leadership when it comes to trade. my friend from oregon here just ar particularally noted -- ar particularly noted why this needs to move forward. one in three manufacturing jobs relies upon exports. 95% of the world's consumers are

outside the united states. i want to make sure we have good, high-paying jobs right here at home and to be able to do that is to make sure we're deciding what are the rules of the road when it comes to trade. the rules of the 21st century and the global economy are being written today, and the question is -- will the united states of america be there to be able to write these rules, to be part of the process? because if we don't, certainly china and others will. putting the united states and our businesses, our workers at an enormous disadvantage. we want trade deals that are enforceable, accountable and have high standards. this is about creating good, high-paying american jobs. this is what we all want, and frankly we have an opportunity to move forward. and my minute's up so i'm going to yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman from michigan. mr.levin: i now yield to another member of our committee, mr.

pascrell of new jersey, two minutes. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from new jersey is recognized for two minutes. mr.pascrell: i'll tell you what an innuendo is. it's saying that the jobs that we lose are going to replace by just as good or better jobs. well, here's the record. remember you're given assistance to workers who already lost their jobs. wouldn't it make sense logically to try to save the job in the first place? or do we believe, as bush said -- president bush said 2004, february, in his economic report, hey, if they make it cheaper overseas, we got to do something else. that's a way out. that's innuendo. if you want to talk about inequality, the jobs we're losing in manufacturing pay over $600 a week. and the jobs that are being replaced, $330.

who are we kidding here? get to the facts. get to the facts. past trade deals have hurt the american worker. and by the way, you placed this thing, those who are proponents of this legislation, that we are against trade. nothing can be further from the truth. we want fair deals that help our workers. that's what this is all about. my town, textile business, lost everything 40, 50 years ago. 25,000 to 30,000 people were employed with that textile industry, and we sat here in the congress of the united states and watched these people lose their jobs and you sure as heck they want the retail jobs. you know what they paid, fast track and the underlike pppp will continue the trend of corporation -- trans-pacific partnership will continue the trend of corporations offshoring american jobs, driving down wages.

and now we're going to be competing with the vietnamese who pay nearly 60 cents an hour. everybody can't be like us. we understand that. we're not against trade. we want it to be fair, we want the american worker to be protected. that's what this is all about. we had our fears confirmed when the president told us that china wanted to join the t.p.p. that's the icing on the cake, making a bad deal even worse and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman from ohio. mr.tiberi: thank you mr.speaker. i'd like to remind my friend that globalization occurred long before any trade agreement. my dad lost his job, his steelworker job years before nafta. and in fact we have a trade surplus, mr. speaker, with 20 -- i don't have enough time to yield, sir.

we have a trade surplus with 20 countries we have a trade agreement with. a deficit with the countries that we don't. it's now my privilege to yield a minute and a half to the gentleman from pennsylvania, a member of the ways and means committee, pat meehan. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from pennsylvania is recognized for 90 seconds. mr.meehan: i thank the chairman and i thank the speaker. i rise in support of the trade act of 2015. 95% of the world's market is outside the united states, and selling our goods to these markets is critical to america's future prosperity. one in five of american jobs are directly tied to trade. and if we can't knock down the tariffs that are placed on american goods around the country, the world's going to buy these goods elsewhere. simply put, a strong trade agenda is essential to america's national security and the economic opportunity of hardworking taxpayers. if you want a strong trade agreement with better protections for u.s. workers you want trade promotion authority. t.p.a.allows congress to hold the administration accountable and gives congress the chance to vote down a bad deal. without it we're negotiating from a disadvantage, and if we're not setting the rules on global trade, china will. mr.speaker, trade promotion authority means stronger, better trade agreements. i urge my colleagues on both

sides of the aisle to support it, because what's happening right now is if we don't have an increasingly aggressive china in there setting the rules, the trade agreements give us the chances on things like labor things like the environment, things like a fair and open internet. those are the kinds of future things that will create future jobs and keep the world safer and better. i urge my colleagues to support this, mr.speaker. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from michigan. mr.levin: i now yield to another valid member of our committee, ms. sanchez from california, a minute and a half. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady from california is recognized for 1 1/2 minutes. ms.sanchez: mr.speaker, i rise to speak against this misguided t.p.a. bill. many of my colleagues have highlighted the reasons to oppose the bill, but i want to focus on two specific fundamental issues, labor and civil rights. there is nothing in this that requires countries to bring their labor laws and regulations into compliance before this deal takes effect. how can we have an agreement

that doesn't require everybody to play by the same rules? that's just ridiculous. we need trade agreements that prohibit signatory countries from murdering, jailing, torturing or firing citizens for doing such outlandish things such as trying to unionize and bargain for safer working conditions. enforceable labor provisions tell trading partners that we mean business on labor rights before letting their goods into the u.s. frayed agreements should not continue a race to the bottom for workers. we should be setting the standard. i'm frustrated that t.p.p. negotiations are nearly complete and we are just now giving the administration their marching orders. but here we are and those marching orders should be clear, especially on labor rights. additionally in the ways and means market for this legislation, i offered a commonsense amendment to address the issue of countries whose laws call for imprisonment torture and even death for the supposed crime of one's sexual orientation.

i was baffled to watch every single republican in the committee vote to say it's perfectly acceptable to do business with countries that have these laws. perhaps it was naive of me to think we could have at least one bright line rule for the most basic of human rights, not to be put to death based on their -- a person's actual or perceived sexual orientation. mr.levin: an additional 30 seconds yielded. ms.sanchez: not to be put to death based on the person's actual or perceived sexual orientation. if you want to do business with the u.s., we shouldn't tolerate such bar barrack behavior. for these -- barbaric behavior. for these reasons i ask my colleagues to vote no against this legislation and i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from ohio. mr.tiberi: i yield to an important member of the ways and means committee, mr.roskam. mr.roskam: one of two things is going to happen.

we are either going to lean forward and claim the best days of america, which are ahead of us, or we're going to recede from those and the choice is here and today and i urge us to move forward, because i truly believe if we pursue an aggressive trade agenda and the united states leads on that, good things are going to happen. there's another part of the story and we have the opportunity to make history as well. included in the t.p.a.is bipartisan legislation that i offered to shield israel from being the victim of the insidious boycott, difficult investment sections movement in europe. first time that congress is combating boycotts against israel. we saw orange, a company partially owned by the french government recede back from doing business in israel.

the language i offered was unanimously adopt and it's simple. if you want to trade with the united states, you can't boycott israel. i want to thank the chairmen for layer relationship in working with me on these important issues. and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from michigan. mr.levin: i yield a minute to the gentleman from virginia, mr. beyer. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr.beyer: i rise to stand and boldly as i can for the american worker. 10 million americans are unemployed, middle-class wamings have been stagnant. every low wage that could have moved overseas has moved overseas. we have to do something smart, honest, brave and bold and based on the unanimous consent of economists and tear down the barriers so they can buy our goods and services and need to

strengthen environmental laws. and bring the law of law to those countries. and we need much stronger intellectual property protections around the world. we have to take globalization head on and can't isolate ourselves. we tried protectionism and got the great recession. mr.speaker, i stand for the american worker and i support the administration's commitment to free trade and lifting the middle class. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from ohio. mr.tiberi: i would like yield one minute, 30 seconds to the gentleman from texas, a leader on trade, a past chairman of the trade subcommittee, mr. brady. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas is recognized. mr.brady: thank you for your leadership on trade and american success.

so who has the power? this is the question. when your family or your business wants to buy a product, who decides what you can buy and at what price, is it you or special interests or union bosses or the government? if you build a better product, come up with a new idea, who has the power to decide where you can sell it around the world, is it you or special interests or government and again, the union? american trade is about giving you the power and you the freedom to buy and sell and compete around the world with as little government interference. it's not just enough to buy america but we want to sell our products around the world. when we do, we win. when you say we are selling in the u.s., we insist we sell in your countries. when we don't, america grows weaker and our manufacturers and our farmers and local businesses, they get priced out

and shut down. so american trade is about our job and our prosperity. this bill sets the rules for trade so these agreements where everyone benefits, everyone plays by the rules and everyone has the same opportunity. i'm voting yes for more american jobs and more american economic i'm voting yes for more american jobs and more american economic opportunity and less government control of our trade. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from michigan. mr. levin: i now yield a minute to ms. kaptur, long time veteran of this congress. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from ohio is recognized for one minute. ms. kaptur: i thank mr. levin of michigan and rise in strong opposition to this fast track trade debate.

proponents of t.p.a. are trying to lure votes by adding $700 million to trade adjustment assistance to take care of unemployed people are going to lose their jobs as more and more billions of our wealth are outsourced. what a fig leaf. it's too little for the damage about to be done. the working families and communities are focused on congress today hoping we will stand up and do what's right for america. this outsourcing trade deal rewards the few at the expense of the many. it's a great deal for wall street. it's a great deal for transnational corporations, but for main street and workers, it's another punch to the gut. , it's another punch to the gut. this week's scenario remind me of the nafta fight to pick up members to deal with cuts and protect the corn industry. but in this deal, we don't protect people. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for an additional 30 seconds. ms. kaptur: there is no

protection against human trafficking. that has been stripped out. we have protections for corn, but not for people. in return to secure votes, a few thousand people may benefit handsomely, but america won't. we will rack up trade deficits as world markets remain close to us. state-run enterprises will eat more of our lunch and for america's working class, millions will be left out in the cold. the t.p.p. will be a pathetic package. i urge no no, no votes. stand up for america. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. tiberi: with the 20 countries we have trade agreements with, we have a trade surplus. with the countries we don't, we have a trade deficit. speaks for itself. in ohio, 89% of our exporters

89% are small and immediate-ium sized companies with less than 500 people and most of these are spent at community colleges and technical colleges and use that money to train workers and upgrade skills. i wish my dad, who lost his manufacturing job way before nafta, who lost his steel worker job way before any bilateral trade agreement to globalization had t.a.a. to help him get a new job. as the president said in reality, a vote against this t.a.a. bill will be a vote to actually cut funding for community colleges. as the president said yesterday a no vote could potentially kill t.a.a. forever. with that, mr. speaker i yield a minute and 30 seconds to the gentleman from washington state a member of the ways and means committee. mr. reichert. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for 1

1/2 minutes. mr. reichert: americans are asking themselves are things ever going to get better for america? the only answer has to be yes. and today we begin that process. today it's time for action. today we vote on a trade legislation that is absolutely critical for america's future. today we send a message to the world across this globe a strong message that we are america. we are strong. we are free, and we are united. a yes vote on t.p.a. and t.a.a. today is a vote for a healthy economy, it's a vote for creating jobs, it's a vote for higher wages it's a vote for selling america. that's the message we are going to send across this globe today. america is back and we are going to be strong in this world economy.

hardworking taxpayers deserve a government that gives you, mr. speaker, the citizens of this country, freedom choice and control to pursue their future. every american deserves this, build your own business, hire employees, promotions and provide for your family. mr. speaker it's what real leaders, real leaders will deliver today. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from michigan. mr. levin: i yield a minute to the gentleman from nebraska, mr. ashford. mr. ashford: i believe this is a vote for the ages. my constituents in nebraska are asking me, brad, can we govern, can we come together can we

move this country forward? what we do here today will determine how we do move forward as a nation, what kind of country do we leave our children. yet, in my view, mr. speaker, we are at our best when we reach for the moon. this, in my view is one of those moments, mr. speaker. this is a vote for better jobs, a stronger economy for american workers, for american exceptionalism, i believe, mr. speaker, this is a vote for the ages. please support t.a.a. and t.p.a. to make life better for all americans. thank you, mr. speaker. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from ohio. mr. tiberi: i yield one minute to the gentleman from louisiana mr. boustany, a leader on trade and leader on the ways and means committee and leader for louisiana.

the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from louisiana is recognized for one minute. mr. boustany: after 1945, u.s. set up the global trading system. and countries around the world are taking advantage of it. the world's not sitting still. hundreds of trade agreements exist that we only have 20 and we are sitting on the sidelines sitting still. american leadership is needed. if we are going to grow this economy, create good paying jobs for workers and farmers we need to open markets. 95% of the markets are outside the united states. let's be fair. and give them market access. t.p.a. is the catalyst to opening those markets and for growth. and the world's crying for american leadership. i'm afraid american prestige is on the decline. countries are watching us to see how we vote today.

we have the opportunity to show that american will lead the global system we cre aed. i think if we don't do this, we have dealt a serious blow to american leadership. it's a catalyst for american leadership. let's pass t.p.a. mr. levin: could you tell us how much time each side has. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from michigan has 8 minutes remaining and the gentleman from ohio has 5 1/2 minutes remaining. mr. levin: i yield one minute to the gentlelady from new york, ms. velazquez. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady is recognized. ms. velazquez: time and again we are promised trade deals create opportunity. time and again, they instead send jobs abroad. in the first seven years of nafta, new york city's textile shut 7,900 jobs, fast track

trade policies have cost the u.s. one million jobs. new york lost a lot of manufacturing jobs since nafta. why will the transpacific partnership be different? if it is approved, the u.s. will lose 10,000 jobs to just two of the 12 t.p.p. members japan and vietnam. new york already had a $47 billion trade deficit last year. this agreement will make the situation worse. when i go home, i don't hear people telling me we need to rush into another trade bill. the only people pushing fast track are lobbyists and big corporations. 20 seconds. well, that is not who i

represent. i would rather stand with new york working families who oppose fast track. vote no. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from ohio. mr. tiberi: i yield one minute to the gentlelady from south dakota, a leader on the ways and means committee, a leader on trade, i yield one minute to mrs. noem from south dakota. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady is recognized. . mr. knollenberg: we sell 11 1/2 times goods to that country than if there was no agreement in place. trade has been and continues to be an important part of the american -- mrs. noem: we have to continue to expand opportunities to export american-made products to these countries. but first we have to set the rules of the road. the constitution allows the president to negotiate trade agreements but only congress can approve or disapprove them. what we're voting on today ensures that congress sets the

priorities and the rules that the president has to follow. it allows an open and transparent process where the public can view any potential trade deal for 60 days before it's sent to congress. if the president doesn't follow our rules, we can take t.p.a. away, or if we don't like future trade bills we can simply vote them down. but we need to assert the power of congress in the process and ensure that public gets to weigh in down the road. that's what we're doing here today. i urge my colleagues to support this bill. america is counting on it. with that i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from michigan. mr. levin: it's now my pleasure to yield one minute to the gentleman from north carolina, mr. price. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from north carolina is recognized for one minute. mr. price: mr. speaker, i thank my friend for yielding. over the past two years i have been a part of efforts good-faith efforts to write the strongest possible fast track bill. the process the legislation has gone through recently with ways and means democrats denied every opportunity to improve the legislation in committee,

while republicans were accommodated in the customs bills with anti-immigrant, anti-environmental provisions, it's moved in precisely the wrong direction from what might have gained my vote. i plan to vote against t.p.a. today. but i strongly oppose the devious and reckless efforts to bring down t.p.a. by trying to defeat the trade adjustment assistance act. t.a.a. is a good bill which reflects long-standing democratic priorities and the objectionable medicare offset that it contained has been removed. t.a.a. has been critically important in north carolina. i refuse to put displaced workers at risk for the sake of a political tactic. i urge my colleagues, play it straight. support t.a.a. whether or not you support t.p.a. and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from ohio. mr. tiberi: mr. speaker, i yield one minute to a new member of the ways and means committee, the gentleman from missouri, jason smith.

the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from missouri is recognized for one minute. mr. smith: thank you mr. speaker. today i rise in support of t.p.a. because trade is too important to southeast and southern missouri to leave in the hands of this president or any president. t.p.a. would bring more transparency and involvement to the negotiation process and gives congress more authority over the president. without t.p.a., the president can keep congress and the public in the dark on trade negotiations. without t.p.a., the president alone sets the negotiating objectives. without t.p.a., members of congress are not entitled to read the text of negotiating documents during the process. and without t.p.a., the president does not have to publish updated summaries of trade bills during the negotiations. however, with t.p.a. members of congress can be involved in the negotiation process to get the best deal for our folks back home. with t.p.a. for the first time ever, all bills negotiated would have to be public for 60 days before congress votes on

them. and with t.p.a. congress directs the negotiating objectives for trade bills. with t.p.a., members of congress will have open access to the text anytime they want. mr. speaker, we need t.p.a. so that american trade bills can be transparent, effective and enforcive. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from michigan. mr. levin: i yield to the gentleman from california, mr. sherman, one minute. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from california is recognized for one minute. mr. sherman: they have not played it straight as part of legislative procedure. they took a designate bill and split it up into two or three pieces. it is one package. if you're against fast track, vote no on t.a.a. it is not the opponents who came up with this crazy procedure. if they had played it straight we could play it straight, but now we're in a position to use the legislative tactics afforded by this house,

pursuant to a rule come up -- that is complicated beyond belief to sink this whole package by voting no on t.a.a. vote no on trade adjustment assistance because if that happens, republican leadership has said we go home. what's the good of having a little bit of trade adjustment assistance if we lose millions of jobs because we put them on a fast track to asia? vote -- take nancy reagan seriously. when it comes to all three bills today, just vote no. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from ohio. mr. tiberi: i'll reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves his time. the gentleman from michigan. mr. levin: now it's my pleasure to yield a minute to the gentleman from texas, mr. cuellar. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas is recognized for one minute. mr. cuellar: thank you very much, ranking member. mr. speaker, president john f. kennedy once said, the u.s. did

not rise to greatness waiting for others to lead. economic isolation and political leadership are wholly incompatible. this is a moment for the united states to lead. i'm voting yes on the trade bills that we have today. trade is good for the united states. 95% of all the consumers are outside the united states. trade is good for texas. last year we had over $289 billion of goods that were exported from texas. 1.1 million jobs were created in texas. millions of other jobs created in the united states. now, who are those small companies -- who are those companies exporting? 93% of those companies in texas are small and medium sized so therefore this is how we create good jobs here in the united states. gentlemen, ladies, let's support trade, fair trade, and, again, i ask you to support the trade bills today. thank you and i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from ohio. mr. tiberi: i'll continue to reserve.

the speaker pro tempore: continues to reserve. the gentleman from michigan. mr. levin: how much time do we have, please? the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from michigan has 3 3/4 minutes remaining. mr. levin: i yield two minutes to the gentlelady from connecticut, ms. delauro. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady from connecticut is recognized for two minutes. ms. delauro: mr. speaker, the debate today is about one issue. it comes down to one question. do we support hardworking americans or do we abandon them? and a vote for these bills is a vote against jobs and it's a vote against wages. the trade adjustment assistance bill is underfunded. it excludes teachers, police officers firefighters and farmers who are hurt when production jobs are shipped abroad go overseas. if we want to protect working families we must stop fast tracking bad trade deals.

fast track denies public scrutiny, it denies debate in this house and it relinquishes our congressional authority and does not allow us to amend a piece of legislation that will have such an effect on people's lives in this country. why is this trade agreement in so much difficulty? why, because this is the first time that a majority of the congress is starting to say we need to prioritize what is happening to the hardworking men and women in our country. what is happening to their lives? what is their struggle? and this trade agreement is only going to hurt their ability to have a job and to increase their wages. if we want to change that, then our job today is to vote down

this bill, say no to trade adjustment assistance and say no to fast track and i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from ohio. mr. tiberi: thank you, mr. speaker. before i yield to the gentleman from kentucky, i just want to point out the record here. no public service worker has ever been certified for t.a.a. under the 2009 stimulus t.a.a. that was passed. and i will also reiterate a statement from the white house with respect to t.a.a., mr. speaker. quote, if you are a member of congress and you vote against t.a.a. this week, you are signing the death certificate for this assistance. with that, mr. speaker, i yield one minute to the gentleman from kentucky, mr. barr. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from kentucky is recognized for one minute. mr. barr: thank you, mr. speaker, for the opportunity to speak in favor of this important legislation for jobs, our economy, transparency and accountability. free trade is critical for my constituents in central and eastern kentucky. more than half a million kentucky jobs are related to

international trade. and expanding trade agreements will provide even more opportunities for job growth. our state has a diverse economy that is synonymous with certain products including coal, bourbon and thoroughbred racehorses. we produce vehicles such as the toyota camry and even aerospace technology. to continue the growth in these signature industries, we need to establish fair and strong rules that hold other nations accountable for their unfair trade practices. we need to tear down barriers that block kentucky goods from foreign markets. what does free trade mean for kentucky? in 2013, two years after our last free trade agreement was completed, the car of the year in south korea was the toyota camry, manufactured in my district in kentucky. let's be clear. the president already has the authority under the constitution to negotiate trade agreements, but by passing t.p.a., we will ensure that congress has the input into the final product and that america will shape the rules of global trade, not china.

i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from michigan is recognized and let the chair remind him 1 3/4 minutes remaining. the majority side has two minutes remaining. the gentleman is recognized. mr. levin: i yield the balance of our time to our colleague from wisconsin. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from wisconsin is recognized for the balance of the time, 1 3/4. mr. pocan: thank you mr. speaker. and thank you, mr. levin. i grew up in an auto town where almost everyone had a family member who worked in the industry. but today there are no cars made there anymore. to me trade deals should be about whether or not we'll fight for american jobs and american worker wages. bad trade deals cost us both. unless we have a say unless the american people have a say, this trade deal will do exactly the same and cost us more jobs. i've read the text and i know where we're at with it as of now. i'd like to see a deal that has better, real protective teeth for labor and environmental

law, strong protections for american sovereignty and better protections for food safety and more. bottom line, i want a trade deal that protects american jobs and lifts our wages right here at home. if we vote for t.p.a., we will have no ability to make it better. for this trade deal or any other trade deal in the next six years under any president if we want the american people to have a voice, a real voice, we must retain our authority to impact trade deals and vote against t.p.a. and all votes that affect it today. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back his time. the gentleman from ohio, two minutes remaining. mr. tiberi: thank you, mr. speaker. let me set the record straight. all three bills that we're voting on today can be read. this is t.p.a.. this is the bill that will hold

the president accountable. this president, the next president. this is the bill that tells the administration what we expect. this is the bill that congress inserts itself into to the president's negotiating. listen ladies and gentlemen, the world is trading. the world is globalized. the world's globalized long before america decided to pass nafta long before. and in fact nafta in 1993, the year before nafta took effect, the u.s. had a steel trade deficit of three million net tons with canada. 2003, the u.s. had a steel trade surplus of $11.2 million net tons with canada and mexico. nafta's benefited the north american steel industry. total u.s.-canada steel trade

has increased 99% from 1993 to 2014. total u.s.-mexico steel trade has increased 352% between 1993 and 2014. that's why the steel industry in america supports this bill along with the enforcement that we're going to debate in a little bit. in ohio, honda of america is a net exporter is a net exporter. this is about jobs. this is about allowing those people those workers some of my constituents in libertyville to build more cars in ohio to send them overseas. the only way we do that is to break down barriers. more jobs. listen, i get job loss. my dad lost his job of 25 years. ladies and gentlemen, we need to pass t.p.a. to increase the number of jobs. i yield back.

the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back his time. all time for deb >> house speaker john boehner was on the floor casting his vote for the trade bill, something he rarely does. he also spoke on the vote on taa , which could come as early as next week. the clerk: mr. boehner of ohio moves that the house reconsider the vote on the question of concurring in the matter comprising the remainder of title 2 of the senate amendment. the speaker pro tempore: the question is on the motion to reconsider. for what purpose does the gentleman from michigan seek recognition? mr. levin: mr. speaker.

ok. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from michigan seek recognition? mr. levin: could you just, so we can all hear, read what the motion is? the speaker pro tempore: the question is on the question to reconsider of the motion just made by the gentleman from ohio. the clerk will re-report the motion. the clerk: mr. boehner of ohio moves that the house reconsider the vote on the question of concurring in the matter comprising the remainder of title 2 of the senate amendment. the speaker pro tempore: the question is on the motion. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair the ayes have it. mr. levin: recorded vote. i ask for a recorded vote. recorded vote. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman requests a recorded vote. those in support of the request for a recorded vote will rise and be counted. a sufficient number having arisen, a recorded vote is ordered. pursuant to clause 6 of rule 18 further proceedings -- pursuant to clause 8 of rule 20, further pro

>> house majority leader kevin mccarthy says the fight is not over. he and representative steve scalise of louisiana and paul ryan of wisconsin spoke to the press on the two pieces of legislation. [laughter] >> i am disappointed taa did not pass. we are not done with this. this is very important to the

entire world. we have 100 agreements and america has been part of zero. if we want to expend our ability to retain american jobs and trade, we need this. >> we sent the strong message that trade is critical for our country to sell our products all across the world and for our workers to be on a level playing field. what you saw today was a strong showing of republicans and democrats that came together. we also sent a message to our allies in asia in europe, who want to knock down barriers, who want america to play a leadership role. the president has to work with his party to come up with the votes to pass taa, but you saw a

strong showing of republicans who understand how important it is to global leadership for america to lead on trade. paul ryan: i am very proud of this congress. i am very proud of the house republican congress. i am very proud and thankful for the pro-trade democrats that kept their word and stuck with us in this process. america is being watched by the world as to whether america is going to leave the world. now the president has some work yet to do with his party to complete this process. this is not over yet, and we hope they can get together and finish this so america is back leading. our constituents expect us to make a difference. they need a faster economy. we need open markets.

this is what is at stake. that is why i am so proud of our caucus today the pro-trade democrats and i am hopeful the democrats understand the consequences and get together with the president and finish this as soon as possible. >> the house also debated and approved the trade enforcement and customs bill. it authorizes border protection tools and additionally prohibits the agreement from changing immigration policy or the way the u.s. issues visas. this is a floor debate on that bill. this is an hour and 40 minutes. 2015 with the senate thereto.

the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will designate the senate amendments and designate the motion. the clerk: h.r. 6 4, an act to amend the internal revenue code of 1986 to permanently extend and expand the contributions of food inventory, senate amendments. mr. tiberi of ohio move that the house concur in the senate amendment to the title h.r. 644 and concur in the nat amendment to the text, with the amendment printed in part a of the house report 114-146 modified by the amendment printed in part b of that report. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to house resolution 305, the motion is debatable for one hour. the gentleman from ohio, mr. tiberi, and the gentleman from michigan, mr. levin each will control 30 minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from ohio. mr. tiberi: i ask unanimous consent that all members may

have five legislative days to include extraneous material on the trade fa tilltation and trade enforcement act currently under consideration. the letters exchanged between the committees of jurisdiction be included in the record. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. tiberi: i recognize the gentleman from arizona, mr. schweikert for one minute. mr. schweikert: thank my friend from ohio. have you ever had one of those moments when you are compeled to come down here and run up to the mic because you are enraged with some of the things you are hearing. beyond the simple facts of the rhetoric you know, looking at the trade surpluses and deficits, countries that we actually have trade agreements with we have a surplus in manufactured goods. but let's move beyond the basic

math of growing our economy. the demographics issue we have in our country and the need to have markets around the world. some of the crazy things i'm seeing put out in the media by big labor, the willingness to make up stories, to make up facts goebels would have been proud of them. and now we look back, it wasn't true. nafta has been a net positive and all the scary things that were supposed to happen never happened. be careful we aren't getting conned by madeup stories. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman from michigan. mr. levin: i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. levin: i want everybody to understand how these three bills

are sequenced and how and why they were set up this way by the majority. so people will understand our votes. the sequence of the first vote will be t.a.a. next t.p.a. and next, customs. the reason for this t.a.a. first is to try to maximize the votes among democrats for t.p.a. that's really why they were set up this way. and why customs last? it's because there are many democrats who will vote at least, some, there aren't that many, perhaps, who will vote for t.p.a. who don't like the customs bill.

so everybody who's listening should understand the rationale for this sequencing. and everybody should understand our reaction to the sequencing. and what's happened here, the way this has evolved is this. for years, i have worked to try to build bipartisan and strong bipartisan support for trade agreements. and we often have succeeded. peru it was over 100. we worked on korea and got less, but the leadership and i voted for it because we worked together eventually for a truly bipartisan bill. this t.p.a. bill doesn't have that. and essentially waste happened in part because of that is that

the leverage has been lost by the administration to some extent and on our side to resist items like in the customs bill. that's really what's happening here. and so the customs bill has to go over to the senate. but everybody should understand the predictment that this places the administration in and all of us. for example, the language regarding malaysia and human trafficking or human trafficking generally, what this customs bill does is weaken the language that's in the senate bill. this is on human trafficking. sex, human trafficking, it also relates to workers. hundreds of thousands of people

for example, in malaysia and other countries, essential come to those countries, often their passports are taken. they have no rights and we say this should not happen and malaysia is in tier three. and the original amendment said any country in tier three should not have the benefits of t.p.p. and this weakens it. and places this in -- if it's succeeded, in the t.p.a. bill. secondly on climate change. we worked hard to incorporate the may 10 agreement. we worked hard on worker rights on environment, on medicines.

actually because the administration then and the administration would not negotiate it. mr. rangel and i negotiated the peru free trade agreement with the government. let no one say i'm not for expanded trade. it had an annex relating to forestation and deforestation and illegal logging. why? because the amazon affects all of us and it affects trade. and so now what we have is language which if accepted here and then in the senate, would essentially preclude that kind of an agreement. that's what happens when you don't proceed on a truly bipartisan basis and there's no

leverage for some of us. so also let me talk about currency. there is a provision in immigration, which could have an impact in terms of the negotiations. i don't know that there will be. but what i do know is that this amendment takes out the schumer amendment on currency. so let me just say a word. you put some language into this bill on currency. it's like every other negotiating objective. it's not even swiss cheese with lots of holes, it's the weakest kind of cheese that has no real substance to it except maybe a good taste but this has a bad taste. so those negotiating objectives really are not meaningful.

and it's the person who negotiates it, who judges whether those vague negotiating objectives have been met. so you take out the schumer amendment. now what's been the impact of currency manipulation on jobs in the united states of america? this is one of the bases of the feeling of a lot of people in various communities including the labor community, but way beyond and our citizenry. we lost because of japan's manipulation of currency and then china's. we lost several million jobs. that's the reality. and so when people come here and say this bill of theirs, this t.p.a. bill will help in terms of job creation and they say as was said many times in various

places, these are jobs we've already lost. nonsense. there are more jobs in manufacturing and other places yet to be lost that relates to the worker provisions in terms of mexico, which competes with us that also relates to currency manipulation. and the president has now said that china is interested and there will be no meaningful currency manipulation in t.p.p. essentially, we are opening the door for more and more currency manipulation. so this is the reason for the depth of our feeling about this t.p.a.. everybody should understand the depth of the feeling for so many of us whether labor,

environmental or medicines or whatever to what's going on here . so i think this customs bill makes t.p.a. even worse and essentially has tied the hands because there is not a strong bipartisan basis. i think of the administration to really throw its weight around in terms of these amendments. i'm afraid some of them are going to become law. and that should not vice president happened. so i strongly urge strong opposition to this customs bill h.r. 644. it's one of the several reasons we should be voting no on the three votes that are coming before us. i reserve the balance of our time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves the balance of his time.

without objection, jask wisconsin will now control the time for the majority. mr. ryan: at this time it's my pleasure to yield one minute to the distinguished speaker of the house, mr. boehner. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from ohio, speaker of the house, recognized for one minute. the speaker: let me thank the gentleman from wisconsin for his leadership on the committee and leadership on this bill. i thank chairman sessions and the members of the rules committee for all of their work. i'm going to thank mr. tiberi, chairman of the trade subcommittee of the tremendous job he has done. and i'm grateful to all members who have offered constructive contributions to this debate. my colleagues, we're not here today to debate any particular trade bill. the day for that may come, and when it does, we want to make sure that agreement reflects the people's priorities. it means more jobs, higher pay

and more opportunities for workers, farmers and small businesses. that's why we want to make sure that this agreement is nt reached or rushed and make sure there is no agreement that's in secret. and we want to make darn sure there is less authority for the president and more authority for the american people. that's what this bill does. it's a means to an end and the end is more free trade that's good for our economy and good for our country. which brings me to another priority in this bill. and that's american leadership. when america leads, the world is safer, for freedom and for free enterprise. when we don't lead, we are allowing and in effect actually inviting china to go right onsetting the rules of the world economy. and what that does is keep our workers and our products on the

sideline. but we're americans are we? we aren't people who stand still. we don't give in to doubt and defeatism. this is one of those meements where we need to remember that this country is an idea. it's an idea of people who choose their own destiny and people who dare to be exceptional. my colleagues, you'll recall that the prime minister of japan was here earlier this spring. and during his address, which is about the need for america to lead on trade, he talked about how this is, and i'll quote, an awesome country and because here he said, and i'll quote choose the best idea, no matter who it comes from. well today the best idea is to vote yes. not for the president, not for ourselves, but for our kids and grandkids. i know some members of this body don't like trade promotion

authority or trade adjustment assistance, but today, i'm here to vote for both because it is the right thing to do. i yield back. . . the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from michigan. mr. levin: i yield to the gentleman from new jersey, mr. norcross. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from new jersey is recognized. mr. norcross: thank you for yielding. talking about these three bills and how they are linked together. but we look at a couple of them, in particular trade adjustment, it is the equivalent of an execution, but you're getting to choose your last meal. the end result is you're dead. or in this case you're losing your job. i'm an electrician. that's where i started my career. day in and day out i heard their struggles. i can take to you my district and show you those empty buildings from the failed promises of a trade agreement. i joined this body on november

12 coming out of the worst economic times. the first thing we are going to do is kick the american worker, kick him when he's down. we have empty plants as i mentioned before. trade adjustment helps, helps you get a job for a lower paying, less benefits, less wages. they call it trade bill for a reason. you're trading good jobs here in america for trade -- i ask for 30 seconds. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for an additional 30 seconds. mr. norcross: they call it a trade bill because we are trading jobs. you lose your good job that has pension, benefits, and a good wage that can take care of your children. for a job after you go through the wringer that pays less than half. yeah we might have more jobs, but they are at the bottom end. they are not the kind that would help raise up. this body, if we work as hard as we are on this bill for

transportation and infrastructure bill, those are jobs that are here today and are for our future and make our country stronger. i yield back my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from wisconsin. mr. ryan: at this time i'd like to yield myself such time as i may consume. to engage in a colloquy. first one with the gentleman from pennsylvania, mr. moreno, at this time i would like to yield to mr. moreno. mr. moreno: thank you, chairman. mr. speaker, from the time of ben franklin reliable and affordable universal mail delivery service has been an essential commitment here in the united states, particularly to rural and lower income urban areas like my own. i am concerned when i hear my constituents that think that our ongoing trade negotiations could undermine our postal service. t.p.a. and trade negotiations must not undermine the u.s. postal service. i am also very concerned that continued dump steel imports are hurting our steel manufacturers. this is very important industry in my district.

even when we have anti-dumping duties to counter dump imports, these duties are often debated through various -- evaded through various streams. we must address these problems in this litigation for my support. i yield back. mr. ryan: reclaiming my time. i appreciate the gentleman's concern about the impact of currently negotiated trade agreements on the u.s. postal service. the united states has consistently excluded government services such as mail delivery from its obligation to impasse agreements. it's my understanding the united states is continuing to do so in the ongoing transpacific e.u. and trade in services negotiations. in addition, t.p.a. specifically directs that trade agreements take into account legitimate u.s. domestic objectives which has consistently included providing universal mail services. our trade remedy laws are vital for countering unfairly priced and subsidized imports.

that's also why i worked with the steel caucus here in the house you being a member of that to add to our enforcement bill a series of provisions we call love of the playing field -- level the playing field torques strengthen those laws. evasion of these laws is also a serious problem which is why this enforcement bill contains extensive provisions to create new tools and authorities to both prevent and go after evasion. i think -- i thank the gentleman and appreciate his leadership on these issues. at this time, mr. speaker, i'd like to yield to mr. barletta for purposes of engaging in a colloquy. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. barletta: i thank the chairman for helping me improve this bill by including steve king's immigration prohibitions and strong tools to stop currency manipulation. we need to establish a process at customs that will stop duty invasion which hurts manufacturers in my district. you and i, mr. chairman, have talked about having customs investigate and decide duty

cases subject to deadlines. subjecting the decisionmaking process at customs to review at the u.s. court of international trade will allow u.s. manufacturers hurt by duty evasion to finally get the relief that they deserve. mr. chairman do you commit to work with me on achieving these goals in conference? mr. ryan: i commit to working with the gentleman to improve the bill in conference to level the playing field for american manufacturing and american workers. i also thank the gentleman for his leadership and ensuring we fully enforce u.s. trade laws. at this time mr. speaker i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves his time. the gentleman from michigan. mr. levin cloin -- mr. levin: i yield to the gentleman from california, mr. becerra, a member of the ways and means committee, and the chair of our caucus. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from california is recognized for two minutes. mr. becerra: i thank the gentleman for yielding. trade's pretty simple. we do it every day. whether you are trading in the

old car for a newer car or whether it's the largest economy in the world trading with the rest of the world. we do it every day. and at the end of the day, what we want is a fair deal. i give you something, the benefit of the bargain is i get something back. any country that wants access to our markets needs to play by the rules. we can't allow cheating to hurt our workers, their wages, our businesses, or our economy. and the american people get it. that's why they are so apprehensive about any trade deal this congress puts before it. because they want to know will we lead on their behalf or are we going to let the special interests dictate the rules? will we retreat from our responsibility to make sure that if some foreign companies have access to our markets they are going to play by the rules? when i take a look at this trade

promotion authority legislation, i ask myself, how can you ever get a good trade deal out of this when the rules are rigged against america? one simple example. everyone agrees we have had a bipartisan consensus in this house more than 230 members have signed on to a letter in the past saying we got to stop countries that manipulate their currency to try to make their products produced by their companies look cheaper than american products. yet this legislation would prohibit us from going after the countries that are cheating to prevent the companies in those countries from cheating. so how are we going to stop the companies that we know are pirating, they are stealing, that are cheating against us, how are we ever going to stop them if the rules require us to go through those countries to try to get those companies to abide by the rules? when the country is cheating, i guarantee you the companies are going to cheat. and that is not the way you get foreigners to access our market.

we can do much better. we have to do much better because the american people want us to lead not retreat. that's why we should vote this down and get a better deal that the american people know and feel is right for america. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from wisconsin. mr. ryan: i'd like to yield two minutes to the distinguished majority whip, mr. scalise, from louisiana. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from louisiana is recognized for two minutes. mr. scalise: i want to thank the gentleman from wisconsin for his leadership in bringing this bill to the floor. mr. speaker, american trade is critical to strengthening our economy and giving america -- american workers the competitive advantage that we need so we can go out and sell more of our goods around the world. there aren't many impediments for foreign countries to bring their products into our country and sell their goods here, but there are many many impediments when we want to sell our products that we make by american workers to foreign countries. especially in asian countries and european countries. those countries right now, our

allies around the world, want to get good trade agreements, good level playing fields so that we can have good negotiated trade back and forth and sell more of our products into those countries. right now china's writing the rules. while america sits on the sidelines. we are not a country that sits on the sidelines, mr. speaker. this bill gets us in the game so america can go out and our workers can compete on a level playing field and we can sell more of our products overseas. but something else that this bill does, mr. speaker, is it actually gives congress a direct say in the process every step of the way. we lay out criteria, things that cannot be in trade deals protections against immigration and global warming type issues being included in these trade deals. but also gives transparency, strong and enforcible rules so that any agreement that's reached would have to be available online not just for us to read, as members of congress but for the entire nation to read for at least 60 days before

there's even a vote in congress. and then of course congress would have the ultimate veto authority over a bad deal if it was sent. this bill is critical to getting america back in the game so our workers can be competitive. when america competes on a level playing field, we win. let's go create those american jobs by passing this bill. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from michigan. mr. levin: how much time, please? the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from michigan has 17 1/2 minutes remaining. the gentleman from wisconsin has 22 1/2 minutes remaining. mr. levin: why don't -- let mrs. dingell go. she's up there. it's my special pleasure to yield one minute to the gentlelady from michigan, mrs. dingell. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady from michigan is recognized for one minute. mrs. dingell: thank you, mr. speaker. thank you very much, mr. levin. mr. speaker, the vote today is why i came to congress.

i promised the working men and women in my district that i would fight to make sure that they had a seat at the table when we were making decisions that impact their life and their livelihood. we all know that we must grow our economy. and we must compete in a global marketplace. we all know what great products the american worker builds and that we can outcompete anybody in the world. but we cannot compete with the bank of japan and the bank of china. nafta cost us one million jobs and michigan is still paying the price. the korea free trade agreement was a great deal for south korea. they have expanded their imports into this country by almost half a million products. and we worked to just get 20,000 into that market. enough is enough. congress cannot abdicate its responsibility to the working

men of this country. it's our responsibility to protect our workers, fast track doesn't allow this. we should not pass it. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady's time has expired. the gentleman from wisconsin. mr. ryan: at this time i'd like to yield one minute to the distinguished member from illinois, mr. davis. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from illinois is recognized for one minute. mr. davis: thank you, mr. speaker. thank you, chairman ryan. i understand the importance of trade and the impact trade negotiations can have on our local economies. even back home in illinois. currently one in three manufacturing jobs depend on exports. one in three acres on all american farms is planted for hungry families overseas. as a congressman it is my job to make sure trade agreements protect american workers, farmers, manufacturers, innovators and service providers by opening markets around the world. because when given a fair playing field, i have the utmost confidence that american companies and industries can outcompete foreign competitors. but too many times past trade agreements have left our

industries, especially steel, vulnerable to unfair trading practices like dumping. i will continue to fight for stronger trade enforcement and be committed to protecting american jobs and i want to thank chairman ryan, subcommittee chairman tiberi for their leadership on this issue and i thank my colleague from illinois, representative mike bost. mike and his tireless efforts to strengthen our trade laws to protect american workers and more than 2,000 workers at our steel factory in granite city, illinois. i yield back the balance of my time. and urge a yes vote. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from michigan. pt gentleman from michigan is recognized. mr. levin: i'll reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves his time. the gentleman from wisconsin. mr. ryan: at this time i'd like to yield three minutes to a senior member of the ways and means committee, dr. boustany from louisiana. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from louisiana is recognized for three minutes. mr. boustany: thank you, mr. speaker. i thank the distinguished chairman of the committee as well. i believe all of us here in congress can agree to the

evasion of anti-dumping and countervailing duties is a serious problem that needs to be addressed and that's why i rise in support of this bill because i think it thoroughly and thoughtfully addresses the issue. my seafood industry in louisiana has been particularly hit by this. which prompted me to work with industry, the committee, and others in the administration to come up with a legislative fix tore a growing problem. thankfully the bill before us today contains language from my protect act providing tools for customs to help out our legitimate importers and distributors and trade affected domestic industries to prevent and combat fraud at our border, not after the fact which makes it much more difficult to deal with. specifically, the the language is dedicated to preventing and investigating evasion. within that unit, there will be a point of contact for private sector violations, who have the authority to direct