nor -- norah todd who has great skills and expertise worked on trade issues for years it's -- she's not committee staff, is not able to do this. the ustr refused retches to put down in writing their policy for restricting access. we can't even find out from the united states trade rep what this actually means except we know that access is restricted. it means few senators, it means fewer of our staff and, you know damn the public on this who work on this issue have ever seen the text at all. trade agreements like this affect our economy our entire economy, 40% of world g.d.p. is included in this trans-pacific partnership, countries as big as japan and the united states and economies as big as canada's and mexico's. this will affect the entire economy, it causes ripple effect for decades, we know what nafta did that was only three countries, the united states canada and mexico. this is four times that many countries. they should be debated in a transparent process the public should know, senators should know members of congress should know, we don't know enough. yet they're going to push