legislationt inc. has not been introduced and would need to be passed by congress. there is a debate about this. donald trump says he opposes it. ted cruz, hillary clinton, and bernie sanders all oppose it. i don't think john kasich has spoken out on it recently. when you look at the potential benefits for manufacturing, frankly, they are limited sector.of the tech even the analysis that is used by the administration to make the case for the tpp, it is an by an appropriate think tank here if their .stimat -- for manufacturing specifically, they estimate the tpp would increase our manufacturing and trade deficit by about $55 billion and the estimate keeps going up. .irst it was 120,000 that is precisely because these countries have policies that lie outside trade agreements that would make it difficult for us to export and make it easier for them to import. their conclusion is we would lose a lot of manufacturing jobs. the question is, is this worth pursuing? -- a may be a tiny benefit tiny economic benefit, but a pretty big challenge for manufacturing as we move for