just last month, i visited the mahoning valley on the pennsylvania border in northeast ohio, mahoningith workers who were using t.a.a. to develop new skills and training to find new secure jobs. one industrial manufacturing worker, i believe in her 40's, has a daughter, i believe, in her late teens. she and her daughter were in the same school, both studying to be health care workers, both becoming professionals, both getting their lives and their futures in order. the mother able to do it because of trade adjustment assistance. i was there with a simple message -- we can't keep passing trade agreements that undermine ohio workers, then turn our back on those workers when their jobs are offshore. the t.a.a. and htct enhancements are not expensive and they are not complicated. they are modest improvements that congress passed to help tens of thousands of americans either bet get back to work or regain some measure of security. last week, 12 senators and i including the majority leader sent house leadership a request requesting a long-term extension of trade adjustment assistance, the h