ms. cantwell. mr. menendez. aye. >> no instruction. clerk: mr. brown. no by proxy. mr. warner.aye by proxy. mr. warner is aye by proxy. mr. chairman. german votes no -- mr. german votes no. the amendment is not agreed to. senator nelson, you are next. senator nelson: you said you would prefer me to offer the amendment to the customs bill. is that correct? i have filed it to both goa and the customs bill. your choice. this is a preferable bill. this is the preference for bahrain. that is the location the united states navy 5th fleet in the persian gulf. they bring in yarn and fabric and make it into garments and textiles. you all asked me to modify it, and this is the modified amendment so that the preference is conditional on the labor department certifying that the bahrain is living up to its labor commitment. i think that is a reasonable compromise. now, the reason that this is super important to me, there is a town in florida's panhandle halfway between tallahassee and pensacola named chipley, florida. it is a town of some 1500 people. it has one industry in the town, and it

ms. stavano, aye. cantwell, no. mr. nelson aye. menendez, carper, aye by proxy. mr. brown, aye. mr. bennett, aye. mr. casey aye. mr. warner aye by proxy. mr. chairman. >> no. >> mr. chairman, i'd like to -- >> who is it? >> i meant to vote no. >> that's fine. change that vote. >> mr. ensy, no. >> tally up the vote. >> mr. chairman, 18 ayes and 8 nays. >> you know how to smother me. >> with love, mr. chairman. >> boo. >> is that the new york type of love? that's what i'd like to know. all right. senator bennett i think you're next. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i'd like to call up amendment number one as modified. i'd like to ask unanimous consent to add chairman hatch and senator carper as co-sponsors of the bill. >> without objection. >> thank you, mr. chairman. for all the reasons that's been said, we're all concerned about china's repeated efforts to adopt economic policyies and weaken their currency and cost jobs. some estimates, it's cost 100,000 jobs in colorado, as many as 5 million across the country. we're deeply concerned because these kinds of efforts, like the ones china's

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 skill a work force. we had two witnesses yesterday at the hearing. both labor and business supported the apprentice program. so i would hope tha

ms. black? >> thank you chair ayotte, ranking member cantwell and members of the subcommittee. regional airline safety carried about 157 million passengers last year operating just under half the nation's passenger flights. we swerved 623 airports and at 394 of those we provide the only source of scheduled air service. regional airlines have made continuing voluntary advancements in safety and have implemented or enhanced important safety programs that, in fact, are now universal across the major regional airline sector. these include gold standard safety standards like the aviation safety active program and aqp to name a few. in fact, the most wholistic safety innovation has been the on going implementation of sms which as ms. gilligan reflects focuses an organization's entire culture around safety. this defines modern regional airlines. as this committee knows well federal regulations enacted in the past six years have brought about additional improvements, among these is the first officer qualification rule requiring airline first officers to hold an atp. to be clear, this r

ms. black and we will now hear from mr. mark baker, president and ceo of the aircraft owners' and pilots association. mr. baker? >> >> thank you chairman ayotte ranking member cantwell, members of the subcommittee. thank you for inviting me here today. i'm mark baker, president and ceo of the aircraft owners and pilots association, a not for profit individual organizationing representing over 350,000 general aviation aircraft owners and pilots. my testimony today will make three key points, first that general aviation is a national asset struggling partly as a result of poorly presentative regulatory environment. second, general aviation safety has improved significantly and can improve further if industry and government work together. third, that the general aviation is a critical juncture where regulatory changes medical reform grass-roots efforts can strengthen this important industry in 2013, general ay united nations, or ga produced $219 billion in economic output and supported 1.1 million american jobs. but ga has experienced a significant decline in recent years, losing an average of 6,000 pilots per year. at the same time, the number of single-engine piston

ms. cantwell: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from washington. ms. cantwell: mr. president, i want to thank the senator from oregon for his leadership on this legislation and on health care in general. i will always think of him as the senator who has been an advocate for reforming our health care system and oftentimes wanting to move faster than everybody here. i'm with him in -- and the northwest is with him and that is why tonight is a proud moment for him as the ranking member of this committee to see through monumental shift in the way we've been dealing with the payment system and the medicare access system and the children's health care program. tonight hopefully we'll put behind us a long debated issue of how physicians are paid but it will also start us on a new path to make sure that people in america are guaranteed better outcomes and a process by which we will help reduce the cost of health care by focusing on both the cost of health care and the outcomes. so my colleague entered into the record tonight -- and i want to thank him for that -- a colloquy