mr. heller. mr. heller no. >> scott. mr. scott no. mr. wyden. mr. wyden no. mr. schumer. mr. schumer aye. miss stabenow. miss stabenow aye. miss cantwell aye. mr. nelson aye. mr. menendez aye. mr. carper. mr. carper no. mr. cardin. mr. cardin aye. mr. brown. mr. brown aye. mr. bennett. mr. bennett aye. mr. casey. mr. casey aye. mr. warner. mr. warner no. mr. chairman. the chairman votes no. >> the electric clerk will report. >> 11 ayes, 15 nays. >> the amendment is defeated. senator brown do we have any more? senator menendez next. >> thank you, mr. chairman. and i'm in deference to all of my colleagues, i'm going to make this the last amendment i'm going to offer. i'm going to make this the last amendment i'm going to offer. >> thank you. >> but i do hope it gets some serious conversation because i think people will understand it's not about trying to stop tpa. i'd like to call up menendez number 5, which is committee 103, for consideration. basically, what this is about is as we are looking ahead to new trade agreements we should be mindful of the impact that new trade agre

mr. heller aye. mr. scott no. mr. wyden, aye. mr. schumer, aye by proxy. stabano, aye. mr. menendez, aye. mr. carper aye. mr. carden, aye. mr. brown, aye. mr. bennett aye. mr. casey, aye. mr. warner aye. mr. chairman? chairman votes no. mr. corning? mr. corning, aye. mr. crapo aye by proxy. >> any other senators care to change a thought or vote? okay. announce. >> mr. chairman, the final tally is 21 ayes and 5 nays. >> the amendment is agreed to. any further amendments? >> thank you, mr. chairman. i have an amendment that's very straight forward. it's based on a bill that senator lindsay graham and i have had for a number of yaer sears, to make permanent the trade center. this was done by executive order and has demonstrated that in fact, they've been very good at bringing major trade enforcement cases. prior to having a separate center the same people negotiating agreements would then turn around and put on a different hat and actually enforce agreements. so this setup, a separate center, we've now heard from ustr that last month, they have a report that has 444 pages deta

mr. heller. awe. mr. scott. mr. burr. by proxy. mr. scott. mr. schumer. awe. mr. schumer. awe. stab know. mr. parker. mr. brown. by proxy. awe. and mr. warner. awe. and mr. chairman. mr. roberts. will announce the vote. mr. chairman. 18 ideas. 8 nays. yeah. mr. chairman. i would like to change my vote to no. want to change the outcome? no. it will not. my understanding is that it was a final passage. yeah. when you asked if there was further amendments. talking about. enjoying this so much. didn't want to forego the possibility here. all right. we will move along here. and considering the chairman. and a bill to extent african growth opportunity. and the generalized preferences and the duty treatment program for haiti. and for other purposes. considering legislation extenting and first let me say that during months of hard work and toughing inations ranking numbers were able to reach agreement on the bill with the ways and means committee chairman ryan. and ranking member 11 the result of the legislation to be considered in the house. and i hope that we can pass that into law f

mr. heller? no. mr. scott? no. mr. widen? no. mr. schumer? yes. mr. menendez? aye. mr. brown? aye. mr. bennett? mr. warner? no. mr. chamber? no. >> clerk will announce the results. >> mr. chairman, seven ayes and 19 nays. the amendment is defeated. the senator from pennsylvania. >> i have good news and bad news, mr. chairman. >> i would like the good news. >> the good news is i am not offering all of my amendments. good news for you but bad news for others. i would ask for a voice vote on the buy-american. this is amendment number 203. it is in this series for me i guess amendment number 2. what i am trying to do with this amendment is insist the buy america provisions that have been in effect for decades adhere to this agreement so that the effect of the amendment if it were to pass and be implemented would remove fast track privileges from many agreements that weakens or undermines the buy american act. in particular and this is the basics of it, in terms of the impact, it would simply mean in a trade agreement, we would insure the agreement itself does one of three things. it doesn'

mr. heller, no. mr. wyden. and no. mr. schuman. aye by proxy. mr. nelson. aye. mr. menendez. aye. mr.brown. aye. mr. warner. aye. mr. chairman. chairman votes no. the final tally is 12-14. senator hatch: it is not agreed to. >> i want to thank you and ranking member whiten. -- wyden. no. i filed two amendments. one is the expansion of a apprentice program. we have to talk about how we train the workforce. we had a hearing. both labor and business supported the apprentice program. i would hope that we can look at this moving forward. so appreciate looking at that, the other within is obviously the clean energy tax credit which um. we have many jobs here that the u.s. can be competitive in. i look forward to working with you and senator wyden on both amendments in the future. senator hatch thank you very : much. as you know. you filed to the taa bill and i inclued your first in the modification to the chairman's customs bill. and i think that the other two amendments would be more appropriate to look at in the context. i will look forward to working with you on these two issues. >> if y

mr. heller? >> no. >> mr. scott? >> no by proxy. >> no by proxy. mr. widen? >> no. >> mr. schumer? >> aye by proxy. >> ms. stab my? >> aye. >> ms. cantwell? >> aye. >> mr. nelson? >> aye. >> mr. menendez? >> aye. >> mr. carper? >> aye. >> mr. cardin? >> aye. >> mr. brown? >> aye. >> mr. bennett? >> aye. >> mr. casey? >> aye by proxy. >> aye by proxy. mr. warner? >> aye. >> mr. warner aye. mr. chairman? >> no. >> the chairman votes no. mr. chairman, 12 ayes, 14 nays. >> the amendment is not agreed to. any other amendments for the taa bill? senator cantwell? >> mr. chairman? yes, i wanted to thank you and ranking member wyden for including my amendment to approve collection of labor statistics in the chairman's modified mark on the customs and enforcement bill. i filed two amendments that i believe are critical to our competitiveness. one amendment is the expansion of the apprentice program and work force development which i think is a very important one as we talk about how we're going to open up economic opportunities in other countries. we also have to talk about how we train and

mr. heller. aye. mr. scott. aye. mr. wyden aye. mr. schumer. no. mrs. stabenow, no. mr. nelson. aye. mr. mendez. no. mr. carper. aye. mr. cardin. aye. mr. brown. no. mr. bennett. aye. mr. casey. no. mr. warner. aye. mr. chairman. aye. chairman votes aye. >> report. >> 20 ayes six nays. >> the ayes have it and the resolution is ordered reported. ask consent the staff be granted authority to make technical, conforming and budgetary changes to all the bills reported today and without objection, it is so ordered. before we adjourn, if i could have order. if i could have order. i want to thank all of my colleagues for their participation today. and i especially want to thank senator wyden for his efforts throughout this process. we've worked very closely together and i've really appreciated it. as we noted today was a long time coming and i want to give credit for senator wyden for his leadership and willingness to reach across the aisle on these important issues. while the day didn't go off as well as i planned it we got a good debate and covered a lot of ground. believe me i recognize t

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 ustr portman he was ab

mr. president i call up the following amendments en bloc, klobuchar number 296 hoeven 299 as modified, sullivan 279 wicker 1126, flake number 2494, cassidy number 30 , portman number 1128 brown number 310 brown number 312 heller number 1122 shaheen number 303. the presiding officer: is there objection? without objection, the clerk will report the amendments en bloc. the clerk: senator 0 the senator from texas mr. cornyn, for others proposes amendments numbered 296 299 as modified, 279, 1126, 2494, 308 1128, 310, 312 1122 and 303. mr. cornyn: i ask consent that senators sullivan, cassidy wicker klobuchar each be recognized to speak for one minute. the presiding officer: is there objection? without objection. mr. sullivan: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from alaska. mr. sullivan: i rise in support of amendment 279 theman act -- the mann act cooperation amendment. this is a simple amendment with strong bipartisan support. i appreciate the cosponsors senators murkowski ayotte, heitkamp gillibrand, and what this amendment will do is increase prosecutions of human trafficking without an increase of costs to the government --. the presiding officer: the senate will come to order. mr. sullivan: it