we need ftas. i want to make a quick statement about ftas. the ftas we have in place actually have trade surfaces. as a matter of fact, over the last four years, we have accumulative trade surplus of $120 billion. that equates directly to jobs. we need jobs for that sustained economy. i've talked about that earlier. workforce development. i have three technology jobs i can't fill right now. if you multiply that by all of the kinds of small companies, we could be talking 600,000 to million and a half jobs unfilled because of workforce. i know i'm out of time. i just want to end with this is a time of great optimism for manufacturing in the united states. we ask for your help. help us get more competitive. please. i'm begging you. we can do it. we can get those jobs back here. we can make this economy rock, but we need your help. we can't do it without your help. >> thank you. >> mr. giffi, you're recognized for five minutes. >> good afternoon. thank you for inviting me to testify this afternoon. the work of this committee and your leadership t

you ask me about what contingency plan we have to people who were going be adversely affected by the fta. they all have winners and losers. in this case we have many more winners and losers. employment. we will create jobs in columbic. more than 500,000 jobs will be created in co-lom bee ya. will be added to our growth rates. that will be translated in benefit to the economy. there will be sectors that don't traditionally benefit. major uptick that benefitted from this free trade agreement. because thus far colombia has per capita exports that are very low. which have been identified as vulnerable are the focus of a series of policies and efforts that will help them weather the storm, to be transformed, to be more competitive and to be able to face the competition that will open up with this new fta. that has happened with every free trade agreement that has been signed in the past. what is important is the final results yields more benefits than otherwise. >> i wonder how you think that apply applies -- where it is not always warmly greeted. and how, for example, if w this do you make s

we need ftas. i want to make a quick statement about ftas.the ftas we have in place actually have trade surpluses. as a matter of fact, over the past four years where we have ftas in place, we have a cumulative trade surplus of $120 billion. that equates directly to jobs. we need jobs for that sustained economy. i've talked about that early on. fork worse -- work force development. if you multiply that by all kinds of small companies, we could be talking about 600,000 to a million and a half jobs unfilled because of work force. i know i'm out of time, i just want to end with this is a time of great optimism for manufacturing in the united states. we ask for your help. help us get more competitive. please, i'm beg withing you. -- begging you. we can do it, we can make this economy rock, but we need your help. we can't do it without your help. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> mr. giffi, you're recognized for five minutes. >> good afternoon, chairwoman bone know-mack -- bo know-mack -- bono mack. the work of this committee to help bolster u.s. man

last week, nancy pelosi, mayor lee, the fta administrator joined with david campos and the chair to tour the central subway alignment. the administrator was in town for a series of things he was doing in the bay area. as we are one of the next if not the next funding grant agreement of for consideration, $942 million agreement, he took the opportunity with the leader and the leader offered strong support for the project and the city's ability to spend these dollars well and generate jobs and improve transit. it was a good event. it was an opportunity for the administrator to get an update on where we are with the project. my take is they were pleased with where we are. there was a number of comments about family friendliness. we see it as our role at the mta to enhance quality of life and family friendliness as part of that. the board of supervisors adopted a resolution urging that we review our policy with regard to strollers on muni. so we are in the process of doing that. we had started working with some board members to understand the concerns that were hearing from their constituent

. $75 million from the fta small start program, another $28 million from prop k, and funding from other sources to fill in the gap. let me talk a little bit about the transportation improvement strategies that we're getting from this project. as you know, cpmc is providing funding for four types of uses. first there offering $5 million for two brt projects. then there is an additional $5 million from the transit -- to be used for transit use in support of transit services, and that is a 50 cent off-peak surcharge on parking entry and exit, and 75 cent. for each entry and exit for the cathedral hill hospital and medical office building garages. we're expecting to use these funds to improve transit services around that because of the impact of the cars entering and exiting at those facilities. they have pledged another $10.4 million to address the delays. we use these funds mostly in the cargo or is like on 14 mission and 48 geary. we want to do improvements on the muni rapid network. and tsp on the rapid network. we're expected to use some funds to provide e equipment, for example, on ca

talking about right now seeks to save $1.8 billion in 2013 and $12.9 billion over the period of the fta my thinking here when you calculate this, it's my understanding that the enrollment fees are going to be increased depending on what rank you are similar between 94% and 345%. i had sent the -- some stuff in for the record when the army was in here. the administration official said that one goal of the increased fees is to force military retirees to reduce their involvement in tricare and eventually opt out of the program in favor of alternatives established by the 2010 patients protection or obamacare. you want to comment about that? you think that's somebody's goal here? >> well, i will comment about what we have requested in the budget. as you correctly pointed out, healthcare costs are going up dramatically. personnel costs are the fastest growing part of our budget and something had to be done to get that under control. the item that's been recommended in terms of tricare is that for working-age retirees from the military that their premiums for tricare do go up because in most c

but between 2003, china has secured nine ftas in lay sha and latin america, free-trade agreements, five more are in negotiation, and four are under consideration. indeed, trade is the one place that we have not tilted toward asia, latin america, or anyplace else. free trade is one of america's greatest assets in helping both free markets and free peoples. now, asia, then, we have an infrastructure for dealing with the challenges there, even a rise in china. the middle east is much more chaotic. it lacks infrastructure. many of the pilars of our influence have been rattled by the events of the arab spring. one senses that the united states wants to pull back from the middle east. in fact, sometimes i wonder if the so-called pivot to asia is because the middle east is too hard. we can't afford to pull back from that middle east that is so hard. it's fashionable to talk about insulating ourselves by an energy policy that finally frees us of dependence on middle eastern oil. we should do that any way, we should do everything we can to build north american platforms from oil and gas to trans

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>> i would say that having negotiated the last four fta's and gone to the canadian lumber deal, it is one of the frustrations with the bilateral regional deals. it is one of the things that makes me optimistic that we will cycle back to the multilateral system. there is no comparison. what is done is, you are starting to write into bilateral deals arbitration. that is a very blunt instrument. for those of us in the trade policy arena, the wto process where you have sort of a panel of peters and you have the opportunity to try to work out something that makes sense because, as you know, the day you win the case or the day you retaliate, you have really lost. it is a much better process. it is a much better outcome. it is a much better means of enforcement. i hope, at the end of the day, the reason will cycle back to be multilateral framework. for now, the bilateral approach is much less enforceable. it is less satisfactory. >> the other element here is, there are 400 agreements. most are glorified tariff agreements. very few deal with agriculture. very few deal with services. the rules

even fta domestic regulators realize what is actually happening internationally to the communication with other regulators. and so to assess the share that information. at every level, its dramatic. once when the knowledge is based in individuals go back to the country's products on both sides to quality. >> the only thing i would add to that, one of the things we mentioned in the report that we think would be helpful on a short-term thing that the fta to do is the adoption of the fda version of cdc to the of what back -- the expertise of epidemiology to other countries, in days international surveillance and seize control. how we see them working in the fda context is, of course there is both in terms of freeing foreign regulators over here to potentially work with fda to encourage that kind of information sharing and mutual understanding, but also to send staff level regulators abroad to work in other regulatory agencies. we have seen this as a way of building a high-profile program, starting to filter out the common regulatory approach to the san persisted challenges on food and d

surprise to many of us who watched but i think with this embrace especially and the passage of the ftain particular i think the administration is beginning to see this could be an area of important advance for the president especially in light of his goal of doubling exports in five years. so my hope would be if it's president obama in the next four years or a new president might help would be the momentum that began just recently and with a continuation of ttp that a little more momentum is now put her behind these efforts but i do think they are right to see that all of us agree in one form or another that there has been a that of a slowness of the block in terms of trade. >> i didn't imply anything. you said it outright. >> you can understand the first year or two because you come out of a campaign, made promises to your constituencies and an ever-present case to labor more precisely and you do have other priorities to deal with. but at some point you have to make a decision about what you're policy is. >> we have yet to see that decision and it's not ttp. we don't have a trade poli

in 2003 china has secured 9 ftas and five more are in negotiations. indeed trade is the one place that we have not tilted toward asia, latin-america or any place else. free trade is one of america's greatest assets in helping both free markets and free people. now, asia then, we have an infrastructure for dealing with the challenges there. the immediately is -- middle east is much more chaotic. it lacks infrastructure, many of the pillars have been rattled by the events of the arab string. sometimes i wonder if the so called pivot to asia is because the middle east is too hard. we can't afford to pull back from that middle east that is so hard. it's fashionable to talk about insulating ourselves about an energy policy. we should do that anyway. we should do everything we can to build north american platforms from oil and gas to transportation to new technologies. we should build north american platforms for energy security. but we know that we will not be insulated from the middle east. one way or another, the middle east as they did on 9/11 will come

but i do think that with this embrace especially in the passage of the korea fta in particular i think the administration is beginning to see that actually this can be an area of important advance for the president especially in light of his exportable of doubling exports in five years, so my hope would be its president a bomb in the next four years or a new president, my hope would be the momentum that has begun now just very recently and the with the continuation of tpp that a little momentum is now put behind these efforts. but i do think you are right to say that all of us agree in one form or another that there is a bit of a slowness of the block in terms of trade. >> i didn't imply anything. [laughter] >> are you running for something? >> the rest of us will imply you can't understand cahal you've made commitments to your constituencies in the case to labor more precisely and you have others to deal with but at some point we have to make a decision about what the policy is and we have yet to see that decision and it's not tpp. we don't have a trade policy, period. either the pres