ms. kaptur: i move to strike the last word. the chair: the gentlelady is recognized. ms. kaptur: i, as well as the chairman, appreciate the gentleman coming to the floor and pointing out some of the inadequacies of process here but i just wanted to state for the record that a couple of the items that the gentleman targets, i think would do damage to the country. for example, the accounts that deal with cleaning up the cold war legacy, for example. that means that communities across our country that sacrificed in the name of the country would have to wait even longer for resolution to the contamination that exists. it's astounding how much there is from coast to coast really when you start looking, you almost want to close the book. because there is so much. and i think that the communities that have been dealing with these remediation problems over the years would not appreciate the gentleman's amendment this evening. in addition to that, i wanted to say something about r.p. -- about arpa-e where we have advanced energy research going on. you know, the united states is in

ms. kaptur: yes. mr. chairman, i'm opposed to this amendment because it's sort of an untargeted proposal and our budget in many places on this bill is very tight. we know the net effect will be to reduce jobs and hurt the middle class in a sect where are america needs help -- sector where america needs help and that is energy independence and the modernization of our infrastructure. the result of the amendment will be less investment in water resource infrastructure all over this country at a time when global trade sin creasing. energy research and -- trade is increasing. energy research and development programs which lead us to future energy, not past energy resources, which create good jobs and have substantial returns on investment, will be harmed. at a time when unemployed americans lose jobless benefits and many young families struggle just to survive, we should be creating jobs and securing the american dream through investing in our energy future including innovation and investments in the ground.

ms. kaptur: mr. chairman, i would like to yield time to congresswoman barbara lee and congressman mike honda to engage in a colloquy. the chair: how much time does the gentlelady yield? ms. kaptur: i would say three minutes. the chair: the gentlelady yields three minutes to the gentleman from california and the gentlelady from california for the purposes of a colloquy. ms. lee: thank you very much. let me thank the gentlelady for yielding, for this colloquy. once again, congratulations on bringing this important bill to the floor. i want to thank you for the chance to really engage and for your willingness to address an issue of critical importance to the nation's innovation and exetiveness. that is -- competitiveness. that is the full utilization of the department of energy's radiation light source national user facilities. unfortunately the funding level in this bill for d.o.e.'s light source scientific user facilities would not utilize our federal investment to the fullest effect. this would lead

ms. kaptur: i want to invite the gentleman from alabama to ohio. i want you to see part of the new energy sector. it does involve clean energy. i support fossil based research but i also support coal and tidal energy and wind and biofuels geothermal, all of them because we need them. new investment in clean energy in our country in 2013 totaled $37.7 -- $36.7 billion. the leading company in solar is a u.s.-born company, born in ohio, called first solar. you mentioned nonproductivity. their stock is sold on wall street. they benefited early on in that company's life by photo voltaic research beginning back in the 1970's and 1980's at the u.s. department of energy. it's incredible to see the future being born. and i'm hoping alabama can take advantage of that kind of technology. what concerns me and one of the reasons i'm on my feet at this point is because they have competition from china. the first and second companies in the world being subsidized by the chies these -- chinese government are in tough competition with the u.s.-born company. and we

ms. kaptur, for five minutes. ms. kaptur: thank you mr. speaker. the american people are being kept in the dark by the obama administration regarding the transpacific partnership. so much secrecy forces us to ask an important question. have any of our past free trade agreements really been net positive for our nation and helped our workers? the gens answer is no. every single agreement, whether you look at the nafta accord with mexico, canada where we are in huge deficit. if you look at the korean agreement f you look at basic trade with nations like japan which remains a closed market, it's l negative. since 1976, our country has lost 47.5 million jobs due to trade deficits resulting from free trade agreements. during that time we have accumulated a trade deficit of more than $9.5 trillion. what a drag that is on g.d.p. these growing trade deficits that outsource our wealth and weaken our economy devastate communities. carrying a massive trade deficit has hindered economic growth and limited our economic recovery by nearly 16% just in this past ye

ms. kaptur: mr. speaker, yesterday japan's prime minister addressed congress. each u.s. president has their japan opening initiative. all fail. as will president obama. soothing words are what prime minister abe gave congress yesterday, but here's the scorecard. for u.s. trade with japan. there hasn't been a single year of trade surplus for our country, not even balance. rather, over the last 20 years we have had $1,963,654,100 lost dollars. dollars that have gone to japan from us buying their products but their markets remain closed to ours. the transpacific partnership is not a trade deal. it should be debated as a treaty. it is a foreign policy arrangement that is part of the shift to asia. as for the trade portion of the transpacific partnership it facilitates the movements of more u.s. corporations into vietnam and other nations in the region whose labor costs are a third of that of china now and will ease the movement of those goods back into, guess what, our country again. chasing cheap labor. we have seen it before. it's time for us to stand up for the workers an

ms. kaptur: trade adjustment assistance was designed as a lifeline for hundreds of thousands of america's workers last line of defense when they lose their jobs through no fault of their own thanks to nafta and other bad trade deals that outsourced their jobs. many workers never qualified even when they were eligible. the american people need much more than just adjustment assistance for thousands more workers whose jobs will be outsourced by the transpacific partnership. america needs trade deals themselves to be adjusted so they create jobs in america rather than suck them away to foreign shores. this hasn't happened for nearly four decades. since 1976, our nation has lost 46 million due to lopsided trade geements and last year our economy lost 16% of its growth due to the overhang of the growing trade deficits. thousands of steel workers have been pink slipped and laid off due to imported steel. with every loss of u.s. job our nation's economy gets weakened. families become less financially secure. what we need and must learn is the history of bad trade deals. congress can't repeat the

ms. kaptur: congress spent this past week trying to fast trach trade promotion sport and the new transpacific partnership proposal for trade agreement with several nations in the pacific. but why rush such a significant piece of legislation that seeds congress' constitutional authority to the executive branch? meanwhile, prime minister of japan and president obama are scheduled to meet on april 28 to further fast track this agreement. rushing this process is an easy taskic to try to silence a reasonable opposition. but based on our country's history of making trade deals that drive up our trade deficit and outsource millions of u.s. jobs, the american people should be alarmed. i and many others are sounding that alarm. japan is one of the most significant partners in this agreement and is the world's second largest currency manipulator and one of the leading protectionist markets in the pacific. they have much to gain from a weak trade agreement. japan is the world's third largest automobile market but 96% of that market only belongs to japanese automobiles. since 2000, we have been able to a