ms. delauro: mr. speaker, the vote on trade adjustment assistance failed in the house of representatives last friday by a 3-1 margin. yet, this rule today would extend the revote on trade adjustment assistance through the end of july. this is one more attempt to play games with the future of hardworking families. american workers demand and they deserve respect, they deserve a living wage, and the right not to have their job shipped overseas. that is what we are united in fighting for. a vote for this rule is a vote for fast track a vote for fast strack a vote against jobs and against wages. the united states trade policy has been failing american workers. failing american consumers and families for 20 years. the u.s.-korea free trade agreement has already cost up to 75000 jobs. and it was just passed three years ago. up to five million jobs have been destroyed by currency manipulation. and a number of the signatories to this trade agreement, their policy is to manipulate their country, to have their

ms. delauro: mr. speaker, the debate today is about one issue. it comes down to one question. do we support hardworking americans or do we abandon them? and a vote for these bills is a vote against jobs and it's a vote against wages. the trade adjustment assistance bill is underfunded. it excludes teachers, police officers firefighters and farmers who are hurt when production jobs are shipped abroad go overseas. if we want to protect working families we must stop fast tracking bad trade deals. fast track denies public scrutiny, it denies debate in this house and it relinquishes our congressional authority and does not allow us to amend a piece of legislation that will have such an effect on people's lives in this country. why is this trade agreement in so much difficulty? why, because this is the first time that a majority of the congress is starting to say we need to prioritize what is happening to the hardworking men and women in our country. what is happening to their lives? what is their struggle? and this trade agreement is only going to hurt their ability to have a job a

ms. delauro: 10 seconds. ms. slaughter: 30. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady from connecticut is recognized for 30 seconds. ms. delauro: the vote last friday and today's vote are critical in letting the american public know where we stand and that in fact we prioritize their economic security, their jobs, their increased wages that we are opposed to special interests and that's what this trans-pacific partnership is all about. . we must, we must reject this bill. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady yields back her time. gentlelady from new york reserves her time. the gentleman from texas is recognized. mr. sessions: thank you very much. there's a lot of confusion down here. everybody thinks we are now talking about obamacare and we are not. when the gentlewoman talked about diminishing wages, diminishing job opportunities for the future -- ms. slaughter: will the gentleman yield? mr. sessions: mr. speaker, i've got the time. the speaker pro tempore: the house will be in order. the

ms. delauro, six minutes. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady is recognized for six minutes. ms. delauro: i rise in strong opposition to this bill. let me put out the irony we are considering this bill, what could be a matter of days before we will vote on the administration's request for trade promotion authority. last month, president obama said in his speech at nike, and i quote right here critics warn that parts of this deal, the transpacific partnership would undermine american regulation. food safety, worker safety even financial regulations. they are making this stuff up, he said. this is not true he said. no trade agreement is going to force us to change our law. country of origin labeling was passed by the senate passed by the house. it is the law of the land. and yet today the house of representatives is getting ready to repeal countries of origin labeling. why? because the world trade organization ruled against it a trade agreement, ruled against it. contrary to what the president has said, trade agreements have a direct effect on our sovereignty. they have the ability

ms. delauro: mr. speaker, the debate today is about one issue. it comes down to one question. do we support hardworking americans or do we abandon them? and a vote for these bills is a vote against jobs and it's a vote against wages. the trade adjustment assistance bill is underfunded. it excludes teachers, police officers firefighters and farmers who are hurt when production jobs are shipped abroad go overseas. if we want to protect working families we must stop fast tracking bad trade deals. fast track denies public scrutiny, it denies debate in this house and it relinquishes our congressional authority and does not allow us to amend a piece of legislation that will have such an effect on people's lives in this country. why is this trade agreement in so much difficulty? why, because this is the first time that a majority of the congress is starting to say we need to prioritize what is happening to the hardworking men and women in our country. what is happening to their lives? what is their struggle? and this trade agreement is only going to hurt their ability to have a job a

ms. delauro as they move up to the table. i want to introduce some interns that i have, college interns from my office. kat from southern methodist -- we'll break away here. >> that's the rules committee from yesterday. they approved for a rule for consideration of two measures coming up on the house floor shortly. the country of origin labeling requirements for beef, pork, and chicken, and also the 2016 defense appropriations bill. the house will take those up this afternoon. we'll go live now to the house floor here on c-span. the speaker: the house will be in order. the prayer will be offered by our guest chaplain temperature am emmanuel texas.

ms. delauro: mr. speaker, the vote on trade adjustment assistance failed in the house of representatives last friday by a 3-1 margin. yet, this rule today would extend the revote on trade adjustment assistance through the end of july. this is one more attempt to play games with the future of hardworking families. american workers demand and they deserve respect, they deserve a living wage, and the right not to have their job shipped overseas. that is what we are united in fighting for. a vote for this rule is a vote for fast track a vote for fast strack a vote against jobs and against wages. the united states trade policy has been failing american workers. failing american consumers and families for 20 years. the u.s.-korea free trade agreement has already cost up to 75000 jobs. and it was just passed three years ago. up to five million jobs have been destroyed by currency manipulation. and a number of the signatories to this trade agreement, their policy is to manipulate their country, to have their

ms. delauro, two ranking members. it is an amendment that is supported by the house armed services committee and ranking member of the house armed services committee. the navy league, united auto workers, afl-crmp io and the amendment has this support. it's because it is rare and once every other generation that we have to build like the ohio class submarine and falls upon this generation. in four years, we will begin the procurement and six years, build boats that will carry 70% of the nuclear deterrent $92 billion. the fund we formed last year helps us prepare for that. instead of waiting until the night before to come up with $92 billion. it transfers $1.4 billion into a fund and a rare thing for government to actually prepare in advance and still awaiting until the last minute to prepare. and it will help us purchase in bulk and save millions perhaps billions of dollars. there are those who say with all the threats we cannot find creative solutions and have to do things the way we have always done it. we disagree.

ms. delauro. the chair: the gentlelady is recognized for two minutes. ms. elauro: i rise in opposition to this bill yet again this deliberately sets out to weaken one of our most important financial regulators, the commodities futures trading commission. it fails to fix the biggest challenge. it prioritizes wall street's special interests over the economic security of our nation 's families. this is a bill for another financial disaster like the one that led to the great recession and cost nearly 9 million american jobs. americans are tired of banking speculation and want big banks and oil speculators held accountable. they want to increase the transportation of our markets for market failures. that is cftc's job. this bill takes us in the wrong direction. instead of helping the cftc fulfill its mandate in an increasingly complex global structure cftc is one of two tin shal regulators reliant upon the general fund. the securities and exchange commission, the fd deposit insurance corporation federal housing agency and a host of others all collect user fees. s