mr. casey. aye. mr. warner. no. mr. chairman. chairman votes no. >> clerical announce the result. >> mr. chairman 19 nays. >> amendment is defeated. do what, now? anyone else want to be recognized? senator brown, is this your last one? >> it's my last amendment, wonderful amendment, numbers 42 and 43. double play for the benefit of the chairman. autos, parts and industrial products. 42 and 3, i ask for them to be considered together. >> without objection. >> thank you. >> specifically, they require the president to assess whether a trade agreement would benefit the auto sector in the industrial sector including steel before beginning negotiations or continuing those negotiations after completing the assessment, the president would have to consult with the committees of jurisdiction including this committee to determine whether it's appropriate to reduce tariffs on the sector's products. these are similar consultation requirement requirements the president must meet for negotiations and agricultural products, so really put ing put

mr. casey, aye. mr. warner aye. mr. chairman, aye. >> clerk announce the vote. >> 26 ayes and zero nays. >> the amendment is granted. >> distinguished senator from oregon? >> this is amendment 70, and i'm sponsoring this amendment with my colleague senator brown. it reflects a critically important value. that is the elimination, once and for all, of forced and enden indentured labor, including child labor. you want to thank senator brown on his work on this issue and nora todd for the hard work she's put in. it's worth noting our former colleague has previously championed this issue for years. currently, u.s. law permitted the importation of goods made with indentured or forced labor if the goods are not made in the united states, in sufficient quantifytyies to meet demand. this is direct. it says there is never, never a time when forced labor is acceptable. this is 2015. there is absolutely no room in our trade policies for any exceptions to that principle. ought to be supporting reform in countries where children are

mr. casey. ay me, aye. mr. warner. aye. mr. chairman. no. chairman votes no. amend >> amendment is defeated. as i understand it, senator cardin has an amendment and that should be our last, am i correct? >> mr. chairman, i have one amendment i'm going to be offering. one i'm going to be offering i'm going to be withdrawing. >> okay, that's fine. you'll be the last one. >> and the amendment i'm offering is 109, cardin amountment three. >> please, proceed. >> this amendment would make the trade, the good governance sections that i have been talking about that was in the original bill would make it a principal negotiating objective rather than an overall negotiating objective. this is straightforward improvement in the act and makes no changes in the language that was negotiated on a bipartisan basis by the committee. the only change is the is to move it from section 2a11 to the end of section 2b. the reason relates to effective enforcement in the rule of law dwoesh dwoesh negotiating objectives. in particular, the dispute settlement objectives require ustr to se

>> aye. >> mr. casey? >> aye by proxy. >> aye by proxy. mr. warner? >> aye. >> mr. chairman? >> no. >> the chairman votes no. mr. roberts? >> i would like to record it as aye. >> aye. >> the clerk will announce the vote. >> mr. chairman, 18 ayes and eight nays. >> the ayes have it, and the amendment is adopted. okay. are there any other senate amendments. >> yeah. mr. chairman? i would like it change my vote to no. >> you want to change -- would it change the outcome? >> it would not. >> no. >> without objection, your vote will be changed to no. are there any further debate on this bill? >> mr. chairman? my understanding is i thought that was on final passage of taa -- >> it was. >> it is. when you asked are there further amendments, are you talking about the next -- >> no, we're enjoying this so much. i want to know -- >> okay, all right. didn't want to foreknow it the possibility we were on to the next. >> okay. let's move along. the committee will consider the chairman's mark, modification of s 1009, a bill to extend the african growth and opportunity act. the generalized

mr. casey? aye. mr. warner? no. mr. chairman? no. chairman votes no. final tally is 9 ayes and 17 nays.>> the amendment is defeated. are we getting close to the end? senator burr you are next.>> i would like to call up portman number two and that is committee number 88. and i will say to the chairman he will not love me like he loves senator bennett because i will have to have a recorded vote on this. i will be brief and i have great affection for the chairman and i think you for the support on the issue. but i have to offer this tpa bill up as well because it is the only way i can assure we address this once and for all because this is a great need. this bill would allow companies to apply for duty suspensions on a predictable schedule. this crafted bipartisan agreement would allow for the ntb process to move forward in a post-mark era while still maintaining the role of congress. the bill will explicitly allow members of congress to submit proposal for duty suspension, to the itc, which would be equally considered along with submissions from the publ

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senator casey: thank you, mr. chairman. i appreciate the hearing. i thank mr. donahue and mr. trumka for being here. i especially want to note mr. trumka's pennsylvania roots and he's using that villanova law degree today. i'm grateful for the opportunity because it's important we debate this. even an issue that tends to divide the country and even divides both political parties between and among themselves at times. my concern here with both trade promotion authority and t.p.p. the trade deal itself, is the same concern i had about nafta and every other agreement since then. what is the impact not just broadly on pennsylvania, that's my first priority, but in particular what it means for workers and wages. and unless it can meet the test of -- that i set forth with regard to workers and wages, it's very difficult for me to support either trade promotion authority or the trade deal itself. let me focus first on wages. i would argue that -- very similar to what senator schumer said about the middle class, our central challenge as a country our central domestic challenge is how

casey. >> thank you, mr. chairman i appreciate the hearing. i thank mr. donahue and mr. trumpka for being here, especially want to note the pennsylvania roots and -- >> here. >> using that vulnerable law agree today, right? i'm grateful for the opportunity because it's important that we debate this, even an issue that has tends to divide the country and even divides both political parties between and among themselves, my concern here with both trade pro morgs authority and tpp the trade deal itself is the same concern i had of nafta and every other agreement since then, what is the impact not just broadly on pennsylvania, that's my first priority, but in particular what it means for workers and wages. unless it can meet the test of -- that i set forth with regard to workers and wages, very difficult for me to support either the trade promotion authority or the trade deal itself, let me focus first on wages. i would argue that -- and very similar to what senator schumer said central challenge as a counted, our central domestic challenges, how do we solve this wage problem

senator casey: thank you, mr. chairman. i appreciate the hearing. i thank mr. donahue and mr.rumka for being here. i especially want to note mr. trumka's pennsylvania roots and he's using that a lot today. i'm grateful for the opportunity because it's important we debate this. even an issue that has -- tends to divide the country and even divides both political parties between and among themselves at times. my concern here with both trade promotion authority and t.p.p., the trade deal itself is the same concern i had about nafta and every other agreement since then. what is the impact not just broadly on pennsylvania, that's my first priority, but in particular what it means for workers and wages. and unless it can meet the test of -- that i set forth with regard to workers and wages, it's very difficult for me to support either trade promotion authority or the trade deal itself. let me focus first on wages. i would argue that -- very similar to what senator schumer said about the middle class, our central challenge as a contry, our central domestic chal -- country, our centra

mr. chairman to talk about amendment number 77 and this is casey amendment number one. we know a number of us everybody here is trying to move in the direction of leveling the playing field. lots of ways to get their and a lot of debate about how to get there but i think it's important that we focus on some of the basic challenges or impediments that a lot of our firms have. it's traveling to so many of us in both parties that many of our trading partners operate what are sometimes known as state-owned enterprises and we should take action to confront that challenge. it is made worse by the fact that they don't seem to have tools in place to combat that or to fight against it. one of the tools to fight against that would be what is contained in my amendment and i won't offer today just to talk about it. i'm an amendment that instructs the department of commerce to exclude, to exclude state-owned enterprises from calculations and anti-dumping and countervailing duty petitions i think it's one way to go at this problem. i realize there are other approaches as well but i t

mr. bush's brother, in securing the 2000 nomination. joining us is casey hunt. the clinton campaign likinge leaking of the possibilities that she's going to do small venues and keep the campaign low to the ground. >> that's right, lawrence, and i think that that reflects something that both the clinton teams, the clinton team learned over time and it's a lesson that the obama team really found out in 2008 when they beat her, which was that you know she didn't do well when she was inevitable. she did well in their view when her back was up against the wall. and so at this point, she's essentially the inevitable nominee. it's not as though her staff can put her, you know put her back up against the wall and make it difficult for her so they have to do everything they can to show that this time she doesn't believe that this is something that she deserves that she's just waltzing into but something that she has to prove in situations ideally they believe will highlight her personable strengths and give her the ability to connect with voters one on one in a way that

mr. mccain, no. okay so there you go. a couple of jay votes followed by a no from senator john mccain. libby casey is following this for us i guess that's to be expected that senator mccain would vote no, but i guess the question i asked you is about to be answered, libby are the votes there for this? >> it does look like they are. we have seen five republicans vote in the affirmative so far, you can see this is on going, roll call right now but the key number was five republicans who join with democrats and independents. she needs 50 votes technically, if it is a tie joe biden would break that by voting for her but the white house would like to see her get more than that, of course. so as long as all the democrats are present and accounted for and cast a vote yes, this is looking good for her, i have to tell you we are hearing reports that members of the congressional black caucus, on the house side are watching this vote, also members of loretta lynch's family. a lot view this -- but important for the african-american community because she would be the first female african american general. >> s

to be the favourite for the democratic nomination as libby casey reported no one from the democratic side is yet to announce a run, other than mrs. clinton, how does it affect the campaign if at all? >> here is the thing. there's many ways of looking at this. a lot thought al gore in 2000 was the presumptive nominee, and bill bradley, a former senator and from the new york knicks he wan against al gore and did arguably more damage to al gore in the primary than governor bush of texas, who won the election. a lot of people are saying it's okay. what hillary clinton has to do is she'll be running against the media. i think she'll run against old hillary. she needs to come out of that box, do what she did on twitter and appeal to a younger voter. >> the money is poring in. when you go back to 2008 where president obama upset her. what surprised the campaign is the amount of money that president obama, senator president obama was able to raise, is there anyone on the democratic side that can sneak in and try to raise as much money to keep up with clinton? >> no that's it. a lot of people have been waiting on the sideline for hillary

casey is live in washington d.c. for us tonight. good evening. a lot of people were waiting for this announce: why did mrs. clinton -- announcement. why did mrs. clinton choose this moment. >> the campaign hoped to hit the sweet spot not launch so early that they'd fizzle out, but get in the race to build momentum leading up to the 2015 race. there was frustration from the hillary clinton supporters they wanted her to commit. the wait is over. the announcement was not featuring throngs of people can'ting her name they went -- chanting her name. they went with an understated approach. they want is to be about helping people not about clinton. >> reporter: a presidential roll out not on a stage but online through video. with that hillary clinton jumped into the presidential race after a bruising defeat to now president obama. the video's tone is one of optimism rather than the candidate herself. every day we are trying to get more and more ready and prepared. a big boy coming your way. tapping into optimism. i'm hitting the road to earn your vote. because it's your time and i hope you'll join me on the journey. >> the announcement w

mr. chairman. i would like to call amendment number 113. in addition, that senator casey and senator heller be added. i think you are familiar with this amendment. it deals with one of our principal trading partners, israel. it only applies to the negotiations and does not affect the tpp negotiations. it is interesting that as we are meeting on april 22, exactly 30 years ago today that the united states and israel sign the pretrade agreement. at that time it was considered an unprecedented trade agreement, the first entered into and the signing ceremony. it stressed that the agreement would benefit the economies of both the united states and israel and serve as a precedent for future agreements of countries. it is very clear that our trading partner is being challenged today by new barriers. there are boycotts and sanctions. it represents efforts to try to deal with it by dealing with trading partners that represents an area to make sure that our international partners do not try to isolate israel. i might point out that we have made progress. when senator portman was ust

now, let's look at that with neil franklin and also casey look at this video, do you think that the taking of the taser is at all credible here? >> no mrott is trying to get away. and i don't know if you have ever been tased, don -- >> no, i haven't. >> but that is the wire? >> yes, and it is on the other the end of the wire and if the taser had been deployed, the prongs would be in mr. scott, and why would the prongs be at in end. you see what i am saying, if mr. scott has the taser device i believe that the prongs are still in or attached to mr. scott. and the actual taser device got somewhere around this -- >> what is this? >> i don't know what that is. >> unless it was wrapped around him, and we can't see it. >> it could easily be his wallet, and the key is that the wires show that the taser is still with officer slager and maybe the barbs embedded and maybe not, and maybe he is shocked that the man he thinks that he tased is running away, because you are not supposed to do that but the taser with him. >> and casey, what could have been going through his mind, because the man who shot the video said that he thought he was trying to

mr. walker. tonight, david koch released this statement. while i think governor walker is terrific i am not endorsing or supporting any candidate for president at this point. joining us now, casey hunt charlie cook, editor of the cook political report and former ohio republican congressman. first of all, casey hunt are you lost? >> i wandered into your studio. >> this is not new hampshire. this is not iowa. >> i don't think new york is officially on the campaign trail. >> no. charlie cook is new york in doubt in the presidential primaries? >> no. but i'm not sure -- that's not the "new york times" story i read. it said that he would be -- he predicted that scott walker would be the nominee and it was a little fuzzier i think than that. >> what strikes me is it's great to say i'm not endorsing anyone but i do think this guy should be the winner. you know, in my country, that's sort of what an endorsement sounds like. >> i'm not sure that's how i read it. but that's okay. >> scott walker does seem to be the new darling. if everyone's going to get their 30 days or whatever it was that last time around everyone seemed to get at least 30 days as the new darling, he is certainly it.

mr. gray. >> demonstrators plan to rally again tomorrow in front of baltimore city hall. >> after months of delays, the senate has scheduled a vote for tomorrow on president obama's choice for attorney general. as libby casey reports it's not as simple as it sounds. >> senate leaders say they finally have a deal to move forward on loretta lynch's confirmation. republicans have held up a vote until they could get a human trafficking bill passed through the senate. they are two totally unrelated issues but republicans control the agenda. it appears that senate leaders reached resolution on the trafficking bill. here's how its lead sponsor talked about it on tuesday. >> before this debate got highjacked, we were focused and are still focused on the victims of human trafficking typically young girls between 12-14 years of age and resources have always been a problem no safe place for them to sleep and be protected from their abuser or trafficker and what this fund does is creates essentially a crime victims compensation fund. >> the bill basically sets up a victims compensation fund, with broad by partisan support. what republicans balked at is a prosecutor vision inside of the bill that extends the lawles aga

mr. bennet: this amendment provides two years of funding for the chip l program. i want to thank senators brown wyden, stabenow, casey and reid for their leadership on this amendment. we have made great strides in recent years to ensure americans of all ages have access to quality health care, but a huge part of the success to increase the access to quality health care comes from chip which provides insurance to low- and moderate-income children and pregnant women. we know chip works. it serves more than eight million children including more than 150,000 in colorado. this is health care they might not otherwise achieve. unfortunately the house failed to take full advantage of this moment and this moment to compromise and extended funding for two years. chip is authorized through 2019. this would extend it for two additional years. the very physicians who would be helped would see increased reimbursement when they treat these children -- the presiding officer: the senator's time has expired. mr. bennet: i yield the floor and ask my colleagues to support the amendment. mr. grassley: mr. president? mr. president? the pr

mr. president, i rise to introduce the small business taxceptor and growth act -- tax certainty and growth act of 20 2015. i am very pleased to be joined by my friend and colleague from pennsylvania senator casey in introducing this bipartisan bill. mr. president, i know it will come as no surprise to the presiding officer that small businesses are our nation's job creators. firms with fewer than 500 employees generate about 50% of our nation's g.d.p., account for more than 99% of employers and employ nearly half of all workers. according to the bureau of labor and statistics, small businesses generated 63% of the net new jobs that were created between 1993 and 2013. mr. president, even the smallest firms have a notable effect on our economy. the small business administration indicates that businesses with fewer than 20 employees accounted for 18% of all private-sector jobs in 2013. our bill allows small businesses to plan for capital un-vestments that arevite -- investments that are vital to expansion and job creation. it eases complex accounting rules for the smallest businesses and it reduces the tax burden on newly formed ventures. recent studies by the national federation of independent b