contributor in terms of airstrikes over iraq and that has been essential in shaking the amount of territory that i sil controls and make each of the kurds have been able to maintain the situation in the kurdish regional authority. clear statement from the dispatch. it is helping legitimate government recognized by the u.n. to do the work and this is vital. >> when he was prime minister and i'm not sure it's in the british national interests.

has my right honorable friend seeing the recent remarks that the u.s. was crazy to suggest ukraine could join nato? >> what i say to my honorable friend as we have not picked a fight with russia. russia has brought this upon itself by destabilizing and encouraging separatists to take ukrainian territory. as for whether ukraine as a country, we should recognize you crazy people themselves have decided is a country recognized by the united nations. the whole point we have to learn is redrawn workforce can end in disaster for everyone, including people in the country. >> mr. speaker, the g-7 plan is a solid one, but the g-7 countries are on track or cross the world to spend 450 billion

pounds a year for the end of the century. what is a policy framework to achieve that? >> we all want to see an end to unabated coal. the key there is we need to make sure we invest in carbon capture and storage so they can accelerate the decarbonization of electricity in a way that doesn't damage your economic interest as well. >> mr. richard grant. >> i welcome the anticorruption summit in london. on syria and the call for you call for u.n. led political transition, could the prime minister share on what this would look like and how we would arrive at a? >> i'm not sure it is easy to identify an exact precedent. the point is simply this, that the president has become a

recruiting sergeant the way he's treating his people. everybody knows syria needs a government that can represent everyone. clearly it would be acceptable to have a government that was able to represent those people as well as the sunni majority and that is the transition we should be in for. >> we will not succeed in iraq until we have representation from both sunni and shia. our strategy is to not do this for the iraqi government, it is to encourage the iraqi government to do it. everything we do we should encourage them to reach up to

the sunni tribes because they represent all the people. >> islamic state is an enemy of civilization. it requires military defeat, and the sooner that is undertaken, the sooner it will be. it is not going to happen if the regional powers are not coordinating their policies. what discussion was there about getting turkey, ron and saudi arabia to be coordinating their policies? >> that source of coordination is required. important steps of been taken. president obama is meeting at

camp david with all of the gulf countries. i've had meetings with the turkish president to attend this . -- to discuss this. i'm not sure we will achieve the getting everyone around the table in the same way. working with partners to make sure everyone has a coordinated approach is the right thing to do. >> i thank the prime minister for his statement. he raises a corruption of fifa to become synonymous with each other. i ask him whether he thinks is appropriate they attend the

women's world cup which is taking place at the moment given his promise to resign and given his appropriate comments to make it more popular. >> i think the honorable lady raises an important point and it's very, very disappointing. he said he is going to resign, and in my view he should get on and resign. this organization needs is leadership. it needs to be cleaned up. >> does my right honorable friend have any indications from them when they will make the clear commitments to overseas development assistance? >> what i say to my honorable friend is for the first time i think we got the 4.7% commitment

back, so it is clear therefore that i would argue it's not just right for britain from a moral standpoint but actually increases our standing in the world that we are able to point out we kept our promises and were able to use the money to enhance not only the economic standing of the countries but also us as well. >> i'm pleased the action to address it but given the oecd have all agreed that qualities -- inequalities exacerbate growth, it also has a negative influence on society. why is he and his government exacerbating inequality across the u.k. including a negative impact around health inequalities? >> figures shows inequality fell. i would say to initiate about priorities for development in terms of the u.n. goals we agreed in september. of course we all want to see reductions in inequality. what we have to do is determine what the priority is for the world in terms of attacking

poverty and how we should inspire the new generation of people to take action, i would say those people living on almost nothing everyday, that is where we should put the emphasis. >> mr. henry smith. >> thank you, mr. speaker. i welcome the extremism bill the governments will be introducing. can my right honorable friend say what discussions with other g-7 leaders have had about sharing of intelligence as people traveling to support isil. >> we did have discussions about this. there is good information sharing between britain and america and better sharing amongst european countries with progress on the passenger record issue. we would need more cooperation between countries like britain and others acting as a gateway

for people joining isil and we need to focus our efforts. >> investment to tackle, but the fact will only be affect on the domestic health care system. was that discussed at the g-7 and the conclusions were drawn? >> the honorable lady is absolutely right that making sure that teens visit countries where pandemics start is only a sticking point, a very large problem. you need stronger health systems in those countries, and that is one of those things that our aid program is designed to deliver. >> mr. speaker, this country has invested a great deal of blood and treasure in afghanistan. did the future of that country remain a concern of the g-7 summit? >> yes.

it is a danger sometimes of they are looking at the next problem instead of how well we have done on the last program -- problem. it's important we keep our eyes on the afghan government, afghan security forces because they are now working on keeping the country from being a haven for terrorist. >> you referred to nigeria. can you inform the house when the schoolchildren who were kidnapped from boko haram, when can we expect them to be reunited with their families again? >> i think of those who have been at the to -- abducted, a number has been returned but a large number has still been taken by boko haram. one of the reasons these things have happened is the endemic corruption in these countries that means the military and

security services are not affect, and people sometimes turn to extremist organizations because their governments are working. second of all, we should not try to take over the organization of these things, but he very to -- be there to assist and help train the military and help deal with corruption so they are better able to protect their people. >> martin preacher. >> i welcome the national security council privatizing health of the nature of governments and their fight against fifa. does the prime minister agree with me that the security forces of chad, mali, and nigeria need to work at a regional solution as well and work more closely together? >> my honorable friend is right. one of the first things the president has done is visited all the countries to work closely with them. >> was there a discussion on the importance of freedom of expression of human rights

particularly in view of the very severe saudi arabia freedom of expression who is to again on friday. the foreign secretary made some encouraging overtones. >> there wasn't a specific discussion on this. the great thing about the g-7 is all the countries their sign-up for certain laws about human rights and freedom of expression and the rule of democracy. that is why the conversation is like-minded and can deal with issues very frankly. >> mr. speaker, "the new york times" reported recently it is

increasing its nuclear stock piles notwithstanding the fact this is expected to be discussed at a g-7 summit. could the prime minister assure the house that it remains a determination amongst g-7 countries to ensure that iran is never able to obtain a nuclear weapon? >> i can surely assure my honorable friend. there is a conversation where president obama reported back on his view about the state of the negotiations taking aim is very clear, to make sure -- taking place. the aim is very clear, to make sure iran is a good distance away from ever attaining a nuclear weapon and the agreement has allowed inspection of their places so we know this to be true. it is a deal absolutely worth pursuing. >> [inaudible]

the biggest bar to academic development is this issue of corruption. what my right honorable friend consider discussing whether we can open a convention at the summit announced so we can have common standards take place across the entire world. >> my honorable friend makes a very good suggestion. we have already set up the open government open government partnership, an organization with transparency from its members. we will hold the anticorruption summit. since we've met our pledge, we are able to make the running of the argument on the issue from people so they can talk about the corruption. i think of suggestion is a very good one. >> jeremy corbin. >> mr. speaker, during the discussion the prime minister

has had, can you discuss seriously two things. one is why is isil so powerful so successful, so well-funded and so well armed with very efficient modern high caliber weapons. secondly, wasn't an opportunity for a longer discussion about the last 15 years of western foreign policy in afghanistan, iraq, libya and other places which appears to create circumstances under which an organization like issa will grow and -- isil will grow and is growing. is there a reflection on this? >> there was a long discussion about isil. first of all, the reason isil is so well-funded as

nd taking over a country and taken over oil fields and taken over money and weaponry. you can see the growth in extremist islamism dating back from well before the attack on the twin towers which of course itself happened before the iraq war. we've got to confront the real problem here, the rise of this poisonous extremist death cold which long predates the iraq war. we've got ourselves in a total mass. >> i saw a press report that was not well covered that said in the private meetings that the world leaders wanted to know from the prime minister, given

that he inherited an economic mess that he had to cut expenditure, and how he got reelected with a huge minority -- majority and the others resigned. >> i'm delighted you referred to my majority is huge and i take that as an indication -- [laughter] i did have a number of discussions with prime minister is an president inquiring about the general election, admitting were seeking tips and ideas. >> we're well aware of the prime minister's wish to have decisions over the country.

will he address those things that would undermine decisions taken in this house? >> i think the honorable lady is chasing after a false demon. and all the trade agreements we have signed, there been these causes and we have not lost a single case. instead of asking for things that are not necessary, we should be asking things that will benefit such as opening. because of the jones act committee 12 ship goods -- if you want to ship goods in america from one port to another you have to use u.s. vessels. in a world of free trade and open as those changes we should be pushing for. let's put our efforts into that rather than raising demons over the trade deals that really are planned. >> thank you, mr. speaker. i see firsthand the opportunity of green technology.

the context of this statement perhaps my , right honorable friend will benefit from the growth of green technology. >> i think the more we can send out a consistent framework and pathway to reducing climate emissions, carbon emissions, the more we encourage businesses to invest. that sort of framework has helped in many instances, and people are particularly interested in what could have been. >> extreme brevity required to be exemplified. >> speaker i welcome warmly the progress being made. >> the timeline that i mentioned

is that many countries have promised automatic tax exchange by the end of 2018. it is not as fast as i would like, but it is something that hasn't happened before and it will happen. >> mr. speaker the communique , says supports the u.n. process. what actual steps are taken by the international community to implement resolution 2216 by article vii and ensure their rivals from outside to stop doing so. >> the answer is every effort and encouragement is made to both sides that they need to get around the table and start talking and specifically those have been backing the rebels should inattention to the resolutions. >> on the question of nigeria, does the prime minister appreciate that so many people of this country the special

attention paid to nigeria, shot to the world on the conscious of the world and they should never be forgotten. >> i think the honorable lady is absolutely right. it is all too often in these things that appalling events have been only a other side of the world, there's a outpouring of grief, and then the world shrugs and moves on. in this case, i want britain to have a long-term partnership of nigeria. we have common links of history and heritage and language. also, there is a real willingness to work together. >> thank you, mr. speaker. i recently met with the house of representatives john boehner who asked me to pass a simple message. the president of the united states speaks so warmly about long-term economic climate.

>> certainly as president obama said before the election, we must be doing something right. >> if we play our part of the commitment to the g-7 eliminate fossil fuels, we will need binding targets such as the 2030 carbon target which could break huge invest in straight will the prime minister bring those targets in the next two years? >> the difference between the 2013 date that you mention, is that we need to have the means to do it. i want to make the carbon capture storage work before we make that commitment otherwise we all have gas lands, coal plants, and we will be left with nuclear and renewables which is

not a balanced energy base. >> mr. robin walker. >> can speaker sure the house that in order to underpin public services around the world and to be fair to those companies that have their taxes, they will use all of our networks including the commonwealth to have fair taxation? >> my honorable friend makes an important point. one of the things we did is make sure the embassies and territories of the united kingdom played that part. we also push the agenda to the commonwealth and things like the register of beneficial ownership of companies is usually helpful to the poorest countries in the world who often are victims of being ripped off by unscrupulous businesses and having beneficial ownership registers. >> the prime minister has

sounded some strong notes against corruption. will the amplify the message on human rights? >> the answer to the honorable gentleman is yes. we believe we should encourage all countries to become more transparent in their dealings and whether it is signing up to transparency in terms of industries, the register the just mentioned, we must lead by example. >> were 80 discussions made about the ability to help bangladesh? >> i know my honorable friend

has long-standing interest in the links between britain and bangladesh, and the strength and prosperity of bangladesh. there was in a specific discussion of what we talked about inclusive government representing all the people is relevant in this case. >> the german chancellor wanted to particularly emphasize her statement at the end of the g-7 the agreement of the g-7 to phase out all fossil fuels as a means of electricity generation by the end of the century. did the prime minister have a hand in securing this agreement. if so, what was his target in mind for the u.k.? >> we worked very hard to get the strongest possible language on climate change. as i said in my answer to my honorable friend having set britain on a path of

low carbon electricity and have ing reducing our carbon emissions, we went other countries to this as well. we did achieve all that we wanted, but it was pretty strong stuff. in terms of decarbonization, what i said, in germany at the moment they have reduced the nuclear program. they are burning more coal rather than less coal. the pragmatic thing to do is only committed to full decarbonization when you know you can bring it about. >> thank you mr. speaker.

one climate change topic in boosting our economy is the development of new technologies. is my right honorable friend therefore committed also to fighting for increase in funding around the cabinet table funding for our ideas are european partners -- four research and development as our european partners? >> my honorable friend has made a good bit. we have carefully in the past and recognized it as an important part of enhancing growth production of the united kingdom. >> progress on climate change targets in agreement is difficult. it is now still quite daunting

and quite massive. the prime minister's involvement, what role will the play to satisfy the argument he talked about calling for stronger action? >> what i say is we are going to bring them to a team to bear on this. the secretary will be leading the charge. the fact remains that commitment means the secretary of state can play a huge role in helping to bring the smaller, poorer island states alone. it will be the whole government effort. the eu has said it saw throughout that when you look at what candidate is doing, what is japan doing, we are in a leadership role and we should make sure diplomacy is working to bring everyone to the party. >> with isil and cultural heritage in trafficking, when

will we finally join and ratify the behavior convention? >> the culture secretary rightly raised with me while they can do on this front. and organizations like the british museum to know how to help preserve some of these monuments. we also have advisers in these countries that are able to help. we are looking at this issue to see if we can help resolve it. >> the prime minister may be aware that the european commission issued a report last year on the level of corruption in member states which claimed corruption cost over one billion -- 120 billion euros year-over-year. it also included a correction within the eu institutions themselves. it clearly suggests they think there may be something to hide. can i ask my friend for an

independent investigation as to the extensive corruption within the institutions of the e.u.? >> my honorable friend makes an important point. we should start by looking at what they do in terms of demonstrating the problems that sometimes corruption sometimes inappropriate use of money in nationstates as well as the organization of the e.u. itself. >> the issue of organized crime is field by corruption. particularly in some countries in eastern europe. can the prime minister give me assurance that this will be addressed with member states? >> my honorable friend makes an important point. when states joining the european union. that is the moment to the maximum pressure to clean up the justice systems and policing systems and combat corruption. we should make sure the national crime agency established under the government is up and running and working well and focuses on organized crime from the countries.

>> the prime minister has been widely praised for his crackdown on corruption. can he therefore explain why his governments provide so much overseas aid to some of the most corrupt countries around the world, which is actually leading many of them to spend more than 2% of their gdp on the military wenches particularly galling when we are now at risk at falling below that threshold? >> my honorable friend and i agree about so many things in this. so many fruitful discussions and this is one area we are not going to agree and he passionately believes it's too far. i think it is important not only for britain's moral conscience but also security. so many of the problems we are dealing with, whether it is the instability coming out of libya, whether it is terrorism coming out of somalia, whether it is drugs coming out of west africa,

these other problems of failing states and failing governments. that is where our budget can make a real difference to our national security. if you take a country like somalia you've got a problem of drugs, of terrorism of migration, and at the heart of that is making sure you have a somali government that represents all the people. i would argue that is our national interest and not an alternative to our defense budget. it is part of the whole approach to keep this country and all of our people safe. >> today's c-span's coverage of the 2013 commencement speeches continues with senator elizabeth warren and work for college -- at berkshire college. during her commencement address, senator warren talked about the need to create a consumer financial protection bureau. >> the fight was just about what

you would expect, only worse. the banks hated the idea of a new consumer agency. they had built whole business models around shooting people. they spent millions of dollars to make sure that there was no cop on the beach to stop them. they hired an army of lobbyists, and i say that no joke when i went to lawsuit in -- no joke. when i went to washington, those lobbyists thundered through the halls it herds. people like me was pushed to the hall wall like we were nothing. they thought they could eat us for lunch. i did not back down, and neither did anyone else. we kept looking for ways to make it happen.

writing papers, talking with people, organizing groups. it was david taking on the lion -- goliath. we won. we actually won. [applause] i still have to believe it when i say that that little agency is now the law of the eight items dated. that is pretty neat desk of the united states. that is pretty neat. >> our coverage of commencement speeches today at 7:00 p.m. eastern on spain. -- c-span. >> on newsmakers jason chaffetz talks about how he was to run the committee and which issues he's going to focus on including the secret service, the irs, the freedom of information act and the border security.

newsmakers, sunday on c-span. >> director of medical cardiology at brigham and women's hospital in boston. the progress being made in the understanding of heart health. >> this actually is a valve that has been crimped onto this catheter that is the position into the diseased valve, and it will be deployed in just a second with the balloon being inflated, new felt will be inserted inside the old the valve. what we have just seen in this little tutorial display is replacement of a diseased aortic valve in a manner that does not

require open-heart surgery. we're trying to become smarter about predicting who will get disease. we're trying to get smarter as to identifying the most effective means to attenuate the disease, and it's larger about following up over a longer time frame. we're currently in an era where the promise of the human genome research project that has been in existence for more than a decade: all of the things that can be driven by the giants of industry, and information about sociology, and demographics, where you live, where the railroad tracks are in your city, what is your likelihood to get diabetes on the basis of your educational background, and what is your likelihood of developing something like diabetes or hypertension if you live in a part of the city where

you have less access to the right kind of food or the right kinds of instruction about sodium consumption, little things like that i could have enormous impact on population health. >> that sunday night on c-span2 and day. -- q&a. >> the vote came a few hours after president obama went to the capital to appeal for democrats to give him power to negotiate global trade deals that congress could approve or reject but not change. the trade promotion authority bill passed, but the house rejected the trade adjustment assistance measure. under the rules and affecting the overall legislation previously approved by the senate could not advance to the white house unless both halves were agreed to. here was the floor debate.

this was 25 minutes. much time as he wishes to use. mr. ryan: mr. speaker the question before us today, it's really pretty simple. is america going to shape the global economy? or is it going to shape us? 95% of the world's consumers, they don't live in this country they live in other countries. so if we want to create more jobs in america, we've got to make more things here in america and sell them over there. in fact, one out of every five jobs in america already today depends on trade. and you know what? that's 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. is00 trade agreements negotiated, signed -- 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 country. 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.

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additional 15 seconds. mr. lewis: we develop more trade policies which reflect our values, labor, human rights and trade have always been connected. this is not new. this plan it is not ours to waste, but to use what we need and leave this planet greener and more peaceful. this congress -- history will not be kind to us. i urge each and every member of this congress to do what is right. stand up for the working people in our country. and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from ohio is recognized. . mr. paulsen: thank you. it's 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 all the trade

agreements that we have with other countries around the world, you add them, we have a trade surplus. if you take the trade agreements -- the nontrade agreements the countries we don't have trade agreements with, we have a deficit. so these agreements help us, they benefit us. 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 health care for senior citizens. i'm not anti-trade. i believe in trade, and i want a trade bill, but i want a trade bill that creates jobs and economic opportunity for the communities that i 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 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 murks 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 if anything 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. 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 in the casting his vote for trade bills. something he rarely does. he also put in a motion for taa. for what purpose does the gentleman from ohio, speaker of the house, rise? the speaker: i have a motion at the desk. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will 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 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

>> the fight to improve transit authority is not over. they spoke to the press shortly after two pieces of trade legislation. >> i am disappointed it did not pass. we still have the opportunity. this is very important to the entire world. we have not had this authority. there have been a hundred agreements and americans have

been a part of zero. if we want to be able to improve this economy and expand our ability for jobs in america and trade, we need to finish this job. mr. scalise: the house came together today and since the strong message that trade is critical for our country to be able to sell our products all across the world and for our american workers to compete on a level playing field. if our workers are on a level playing field -- we came together and said that american trade is important, but also we sent the message to other allies in asia and europe who want to knock down barriers. who are tired of china writing the rules of the game, they want america to have a leadership role. so the president has got to work with his party to come up with the votes to pass t.a.a. but you saw a strong showing today of

republicans combined with free trade democrats to recognize how important it is in global leadership for america to lead on trade. mr. ryan: i'm very proud of this congress today. i'm very proud of the house republican caucus. i'm also 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 rest of the world as to whether or not america is going to lead in the world. and i think this sent the right signal. now the president has some work yet to do with his party to complete this process. this this is not over yet. and we hope that they can get together and make sure that we finish this so that america is back leading. our constituents are expecting us to make a difference. the people of this country need a faster economy. they need more opportunity. we need to open markets. we need to write the rules of the global economy instead of

having others to do so. that is what is at stake. that is why i'm so proud of our caucus today, of the pro-trade democrats today and that i am hopeful that the democrats understand the consequences and get together with the president and finish this as soon as possible. >> next, live your calls and comments on washington journal. the democratic presidential candidate hillary clinton kicks off with a rally in new york city. >> director of clinical cardiology at brigham and women's hospital in boston. the advances on heart surgery and the progress being made in the understanding of heart health. >> this is a valve that has been crimped onto this catheter that is being now positioned into the

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president obama's decision to send 450 more troops to iraq. washington journalists next. ♪ host: good morning. it is saturday, june 13, 2015. house democrats played the starring role yesterday in derailing the president costs sweeping -- president's sweeping transpacific partnership -- sweeping trade deal. the president came to congress yesterday to lobby his own party and movie trade legislation forward. we will begin today by getting your reaction to what played out yesterday, and with the white house