mr. portman. mr. portman no. mr. toomey. mr. toomey no. mr. coats. >> no. >> mr. coats no. mr. heller. >> mr. heller no. >> mr. scott. mr. scott no. mr. wyden. mr. wyden no. mr. schumer. mr. schumer yes. miss cantwell. miss cant quel no. mr. nelson. mr. nelson no. mr. machinened ez. mr. menendez aye. mr. parker. 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 clerk will announce the results. >> seven ayes, 19 nays. >> the amendment is defeated. does anybody else have an amendment? >> mr. chairman. >> the senator from pennsylvania. >> mr. chairman, i have good news and bad news. good news is -- >> i like the good news. i like that in advance. >> good news is i'm not offering all of my amendments. the bad news is good news for me but bad news maybe for some others. i'd ask for a voice vote on the by america amendment. let me just walk through it. this is an amendment, casey amendment -- or amendment number 203. amendment number 2. i'm trying to insist that the buy america provisions whic

mr. portman? no. mr. toomey? no. mr. coats? no. mr. scott? no. mr. white? [inaudible] cantwell? mr. nelson? aye. mr. brown? aye. mr. chairman? no. mr. widen? no. mr. schumer? i am biproxy. mr. harper? the tally is 10 ayes 16 nays. >> the amendment is defeated. mr. bennett? >> i would long to recognize bennett number one and in the spirit, the way you conducted this hearing i will withdraw the amendment but i would like to speak to it. >> i am starting to love you. >> i feel the same way. this amendment is simple. it would make clear through the new principle negotiating objective we should contribute the elimination of poverty and hunger. this would show this isn't just a way to open global commerce but an opportunity to combat global poverty. trade and foreign investment are playing an important role in global development. if we get trade right, we have the power to positively influence the global fight against poverty and hunger. in 2012, developing countries represented 60 times greater than official aid and that number is only growing. however, trade potential to combat poverty

mr. portman and mr. toomey is voting for the bill, they are both of her reelection on 2015 and this could come back to hurt them. sen. brown: the only republican who voted against it was from north carolina. he is in a state that has been hit very hard, textiles, furniture. nafta is not a very popular issue in your carolina and he is harkening back to it. host: it was a "wall street journal" article that called out mr. portman on the currency manipulation language. interesting factor as this debate rules on. thank you both for being part of "newsmakers." reporter: thank you. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2015] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] >> the annual white house correspondents dinner was held last night. the president and first lady attended. the featured entertainer was excessively strong. this portion of the event is one hour and 25 minutes. >> i want to welcome all of you

mr. portman. aye. mr. portman. aye. mr. tomby. aye. mr. burr. by proxy. mr. scott. no by proxy mr.wyden. aye. ms. cantwell. aye. mr. menendez. aye. mr. brown. aye by proxy. mr. warner. aye. mr. chairman. no.mr. roberts . senator roberts: i would like to be reported as aye. clerk mr. chairman. :18 ayes. the eyes have it. >> i would like to change my vote to know. senator hatch: what change the outcome? >> no. senator hatch: without objection , it is changed. any further debate on this bill? >> my understanding is that it was on final passage. didn't want to forego the possibility here. senator hatch the considered -- senator hatch: we will consider a bill to extent african growth opportunity. and the generalized preferences and the duty treatment program for haiti. and for other purposes. we are pleased the committee is considering legislation extending and renewing several of our programs today. let me say through months of hard work and toughing inations ranking member whiten and i were able to reach agreement on the bill with the ways and means committee chairman ryan. identical

mr. portman? >> no. >> mr. toomey. >> aye. >> mr. coats? >> no. >> mr. yeller? >> no. >> mr. scott? >> no. >> mr. white? >> aye. >> miss cantwell? >> aye. >> mr. nelson? >> aye. >> mr. menendez. >> aye. >> brown. >> no. >> mr. bennett? >> aye. >> mr. chairman. >> no. >> chairman votes no. >> clerk will report the vote. >> the final tally is 10 ayes and 16 nays. >> the amendment is defeated. are there any other amendments? >> i had noted in regards to nicaragua on this bill and customs bill. if we don't take these issues up we're making a policy by neglect. i think this is an issue that's important for our committee to exercise our policy of jurisdiction. i would hope we would have an opportunity to consider these issues. >> there's clear there ought to be a follow up. >> we appreciate the comments of everybody. >> mr. chairman? could i just say i appreciate the acceptance of my amendment on the out door performance where this industry is very important to the economy with millions of jobs. the change in tariffs will help consumers. i'm pleased it's been included in this legislation.

mr. portman? >> aye. >> mr. portman aye. mr. tomb? >> aye. >> mr. coates? >> aye. >> mr. healther? >> aye. >> mr. scott? >> scott is no by proxy. by the way, burr is aye by proxy. i apologize. >> mr. burr aye by proxy. mr. scott, no by proxy. >> no by proxy. >> mr. wide glen is. >> aye. >> mr. schumer? >> aye. >> ms. stabenow? >> aye. >> ms. can't well. >> aye. >> mr. nelson? >> aye. >> mr. menendez? >> aye. >> mr. carper? >> my. >> mr. cardin? >> aye. >> mr. brown? >> aye by proxy. >> mr. brown aye by proxy. mr. bennett? >> 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 furt

mr. portman. awe. mr. portman. awe. mr. tomby. awe. mr. cooks. 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

mr. portman. ay aye. mr. toomey. aye. mr. coates. aye. 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

senator portman is next. >> thank you mr. chairman. this amendment as a result of a long-standing issue that has been in this body and the house the mark moratorium in place. it is an amendment that is consistent with legislation introduced back in 2012 by senator mccaskill and myself then it has to do with miscellaneous pair of bills. this is something i hope the committee will be able to support on the strong bipartisan basis because it makes so much sense for our workers to be able to have access to products that are not made here in america in order to lower their costs and be more competitive. i want to thank the co-sponsor senator toomey senator casey senator burr senator carper and others who have been involved with this topic. it's basically saying these critical inputs that are not available in the united states need to have a predictable pathway to be dealt with here in the united states congress through this miscellaneous tariff bill. if we pass this we would actually begin to deal with the backlog and beginning later this y

portman. >> all right. >> thank you mr. chairman and commissioner, thank you for being here today. i usually see you over at the finance committee. and this i guess is really a tax day hearing so it's appropriate to talk about the broader issues. i want to focus in on the 1095a issue, the relationship to the affordable care act. a couple months ago as you know the administration announced it sent out 800,000 incorrect tax statements. and obviously a very important to my con stut chew ents. i think they were initially told you know, don't worry about filing your taxes until we get a corrected statement and then we were recently told go ahead and file your taxes and you won't be penalized based on information you rely on that's inaccurate. so it's caused a lot of confusion. and i'm sure you've heard a lot about it. >> yes. >> i have. s a i'm as i'm sure many of my colleagues from. i have a constituent from iowa she's not interested in sharing her last name today but she got the incorrect 1095a from the marketplace in mid january. she's been trying to correct it ever since. and one of

mr. whitfield: thank you very much. i want to thank my colleagues on both sides of the aisle once again specifically senator sheehan and portman, congressman mckinley and welch, mr. upton and mr. pallone and certainly mr. rush of illinois. all of whom worked very diligently on this and i know they are committed to efficiency. i'm pleased that this legislation will stop the department of energy's regulation that would prohibit the manufacture of heat resistant water heaters above 55 gallons. if that regulation had been allowed to continue it would have cost the american public a lot more money going to the heat pump technology. so this legislation is -- has stopped that. it's going to improve efficiency and i would urge my colleagues to support this legislation and i would yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from kentucky yields back. the question is, will the house suspend the rules and pass the bill -- and pass senate bill 535 ? those in favor say yes. those opposed, no. 2/3 being in the affirmative, the rules are suspended, the bill is passed and without objection the motion to reconside

portman for their leadership this is an important amendment as i understand it. the rollcall vote has been requested. i think we have enough here. [inaudible] [inaudible] >> clerical report. 26 aye, zero nay. >> mr. chairman, on the amendment that i talked about, i would like to ask unanimous consent that the senator will be added. >> without objection. you had better find out. as i understand it senator portman is next with his amendment. this is the amendment we have been talking about already which is to add currency manipulation within trade promotion to authority. seven out will speak on it -- senator seven out begot in just a minute but before start i would like to ask unanimous consent that senator schumer be added as a cosponsor. we have talked about the importance of tpa and i agree with what senator wyden said. this underlying bill is extremely important because it will extent opportunities for workers in my straight in and around the country. in the meantime there have been hundreds of trade agreements negotiated by other countries. this means we have lost market share but as we do this let's be sure it is fair to american workers and right now the playing field is tilted against us.

portman and senator warner. senator whitehouse. >> thank you, mr. chairman. it has been an interesting week last week in the senate. i just completed last week a bipartisan markup on a contentious issue in the health committee, with the result air of a 22-0 bipartisan vote on a new elementary and secondary education act. we have just witnessed a unanimous bipartisan result in the senate committee on foreign relations on another difficult and contentious question. we have before us as a conference the bipartisan and bicameral record of the iranian murray negotiations. we and a bipartisan and bicameral way just resolved the annoying annual ritual of the dock six years of bipartisanship and progress are possible. but apparently not in the budget committee. this budget effort has been been a partisan ramrod. even today's formality is not even a token effort of bipartisanship. we are all dead. republicans can brand their budget through, so they will run on trade brand their budget through and that is that. the problem is this has made the budget process ridiculous

mr. kernen that would be fine. >> okay. and then i read about rob portman.there's an op-ed with ted cruz in the "journal." >> no. he wants to put some currency manipulation language in it which wouldn't work. he's up to re-election and that's pandering to his interests in ohio. god almighty. everybody has got a horse here. strange bedfellows, you and the president. nice. nice to see. but the president said elizabeth warren is wrong. there's fighting on all different sides. it's weird. >> it is different, i'll give you that mr. kernen. hello, mrs. quick, mr. sorkin. >> nice to see you. >> nice to see you guys too. look, here's the deal. this is about more jobs and higher wages. one in five jobs in america are tied to trade. 95% of the world's consumers don't live in america, they live in other countries. so if we want more jobs if we want higher paying jobs and trade-based jobs typically trade more we need to open up markets to our products so we can make and grow more things in america and send them overseas. the second point is the rules of the global econo

portman is not here. senator warner is not here. senator toomey is not here. senator merkley is not here. senator johnson: thank you, mr. chairman. this is a rare moment. it shouldn't be, but it is. i take the position of the glass half-full as opposed to glass half-empty. he mentioned a number of areas of bipartisanship. that's a good thing. there are an awful lot of areas of agreement. as we pass out some handouts here the opening statement i will start looking at some numbers. we have difficult choices and we really want to solve problems as opposed to just demagogue issues. there's a first step you have to take. it to admit you have one. our budget process is really centered around a 10 year budget window. it is a problem but it is not the problem. this congress has made promises to all kinds of americans. we can't honor all those problems. looking at the proper definition to enable america to collectively mean we have it. it is to provide the information of the american people. we take a look at the first page of the handout here. this is the 30 year projected deficit. you see the first decade about a trillion dollars of pro

mr. koskinen: i would note that she is calling cms, not the irs. they do have a very vigorous customer service effort working through those kinds of questions. sen. portman: i stand corrected will stop -- corrected. anyway, lots of questions about how we can help solve this problem and really the scope of the problem. if you could, today, give us with the irs's best estimate is about the folks who have to repay a portion of that subsidy. mr. koskinen: we won't know because it takes a while to post , but thus far, it appears that it is slightly less than half of the people that are getting an increase refund because they got smaller advanced payment of the premium tax credit than they were entitled to based on their final income. about 50-55% getting a smaller refund but they are still getting a refund. the adjustments, we don't know what the dollars are, i have seen tax preparers estimating that their experiment -- their experience has been $300 one-way or three -- or $500 another way. we don't have an indication about who, as a result of getting too much of an advance payment, actually ended up owing tax. the situation of the chairman's constituent is i

mr. portman and mr. toomey is voting for the bill, they are both of her reelection on 2015 and this could come back to hurt them. sen. brown: the only republican who voted against it was from north carolina. he is in a state that has been hit very hard, textiles, furniture. nafta is not a very popular issue in your carolina and he is harkening back to it. host: it was a "wall street journal" article that called out mr. portman on the currency manipulation language. interesting factor as this debate rules on. thank you both for being part of "newsmakers." reporter: thank you. >> next, we will show you some of the senate floor debate on the confirmation of loretta lynch to be the next attorney general. after that former secretary of state and presents a candidate, hillary clinton, in new hampshire. then senators patrick leahy and rand paul receive awards. >> in 2003, new york times reporter, judith miller, wrote several stories on the lead up to iraq and on weapons of mass d the structure. she was found in

mr. portman: mr. president, in the interest of moving the human trafficking bill forward with the understanding these amendments could be offered later in the prods, i -- process i would like to withdraw my amendment number 271. the presiding officer: the amendment is withdrawn. mr. portman: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from ohio. mr. portman: mr. president additionally i'd like to withdraw my amendment number 270. the presiding officer: the amendment is withdrawn. mr. mcconnell: mr. president? the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. mcconnell: i call up amendment number 1120. which is at the desk. the presiding officer: the clerk will report the amendment. the clerk: the senator from kentucky mr. mcconnell for mr. cornyn proposes an amendment numbered 1120. strike section 101 and insert the following. mr. mcconnell: i ask consent that the reading of the amendment be dispensed with. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. mcconnell: i send a cloture motion to the des

mr. portman: mr. president i rise -- the presiding officer: the senate is in a quorum call. mr. portman: i ask unanimous consent the quorum call be dispensed with. the presiding officer: without objection. the senator from ohio. mr. portman: mr. president i rise to express my appreciation that finally the senate is getting back to legislating on this important issue of human trafficking, a heinous crime that threatens thousands of innocent people every year. i'm the cochair cofounder of the human trafficking caucus and our opportunity here today is to raise awareness of this issue but also to pass important legislation to address the problem. we have learned that human trafficking is now a $32 billion worldwide industry leading only second in side to international drug trade for criminal activity. many people view this as an international problem, they think it happens somewhere else on another continent maybe in africa maybe in asia. it happens right here. every count in the world has a responsibility to fight against traffickers but while it has a global reach the reality is it

mr. portman: mr. president i rise today to express strong support for the underlying bill and my appreciation to the managers of the bill for including in the en bloc amendments one that i offered that's entitled the ensuring a better response for victims of child sex trafficking part of a larger bill that we got passed last year. this one ensures all children whoer sex trafficked will be trafficked as sex abuse victims. currently sex trafficking of a miner is not child abuse unless a parent or caregiver was directly involved. this amendment clarifies a child victim of sex trafficking is a victim of child abuse and can be eligible for the services as they recover. we've made great progress in putting aside partisan divides in coming together to combat human trafficking. i'm proud that my bringing children home legislation with senator schumer as well as my combating the trafficking act is included in underlying bill. we're a few steps closer to ending talking once and for all. i congratulate senator c

enzi, grassley sessions, crapo graham portman toomey, johnson, ayotte, wicker, corker, perdue sanders murray, wyden stabenow whitehouse, warner, merkley baldwin mccain. mr. enzi: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from wyoming. mr. enzi: i ask unanimous consent that the senate be in a period of morning business with senators permitted to speak therein for up to ten minutes each. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. enzi: i ask unanimous consent that the senate proceed to executive session at 2:00 p.m. on thursday, april 16, to consider the following nominations. calendar number 1 and calendar number 51. that the senate vote without intervening action or debate on the nominations the motions to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table that no further motions be in order that any statements related to the nominations be printed in the record, the president be immediately notified of the senate's actions and the senate then resume legislative session. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. enzi: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that when the senate completes its business today it adjourn until 10:00 a.m. th