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the taa is a program that helps workers who lose their jobs because of increased imports or outsourcing that the trade agreements create,... but it's been a tough deal to sell to republicans as the program is expected to add nearly 3 billion dollars to the deficit in five years. such an outlook comes just a day after the house approved the generalized system of preferences or gsp program,... which allows the import of goods from over 120 countries without tariffs. analysts say the passage of the gsp bill will likely smooth the passage of the three pending ftas. lee ji-yoon, arirang news. the european central bank has decided to keep its benchmark interest rate unchanged at 1- and-a-half percent.. after a meeting thursday in frankfurt, ecb president jean- claude trichet said the risk of slower growth in europe had intensified... amid a climate of enormous economic uncertainty. he also signaled that the bank was unlikely to raise rates soon. the ecb raised the benchmark rate by 25 basis points in april and july. the oecd has warned that another global recession could be on the way... but

this done, that they won't be able to create -- >> first of all, the republicans don't want to add taa, trade adjustment assistance to train workers who lose their jobs because of trade. they don't want to add that. that makes our job when frankly all lilies easier because no one will support those trade agreements without taa adjustments and even tea party people. affect the colombian government has not been able to stem the intentional violence against trade unionists. should bring most people to their senses and hopefully they will vote as well. >> let's go to melanie troutman. >> can you tell us -- melanie troutman of the wall street journal. can you tell us some of the things you are asking the labor department to do? secretary scalise, to stimulate job creation and also insure that workers who are currently employed are getting the wages that they are supposed to get. >> we are asking them to enforce the laws that protect workers and that is whether it is health and safety laws in the workplace of all americans or in the minds -- i think she is doing that. we are asking her to st

or taa, would authorize, you can't make it up, would authorize millions in federal money to be paid to workers displaced by free trade agreements being sold as job creators. it's not funny. senate democrats say they will not re-up those deals with colombia, panama and south korea without a plan to pay off the workers who would lead their jobs in the job-creating free trade agreements sold to us by our president and republicans. the debate is set to resume within the hour. thank god for that. >>> is it me, or does the fact that they are considering an amendment to basically pay off workers losing their jobs for these trade deals acknowledge that they would kill at least some u.s. jobs and fail to acknowledge the banking secrecy, union murder rate and funding of north korea through south korean employers in these trade deals? all of this is taking place as the obama administration is now also pushing for a little talked about free trade agreement with the entire transpacific region. no talk of dealing with currency or tax law, just trade deals. the u.s. has been in talks with world leade

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>> first of all, the republicans do not want to add taa to its. every trains workers who lose their jobs because of trade. they do not even want to add that into it. it makes our job all little easier. no one is going to support those trade agreements without taa adjustments. even many republicans. i think we have a real shot added. the fact that the government has not been able to stem the intentional violence against trade unionists should bring most people to their senses and hopefully they will vote against that bill as well. >> can you tell us some of the things that you are asking the labor department to do? to help stimulate job creation and to help insure workers were currently employed targeting the wages they're supposed to get? >> we are asking them to enforce laws and protect workers. that is whether it is health and safety laws in the work places, and we are asking her to step up enforcement of the fair labor standards act. people should be paid the right rate. sometimes they get reclassified. we are asking her to look into classifica

>> first of all, the republicans do not want to add taa to its. every trains workers who lose their jobs because of trade. they do not even want to add that into it. it makes our job all little easier. no one is going to support those trade agreements without taa adjustments. even many republicans. i think we have a real shot added. the fact that the government has not been able to stem the intentional violence against trade unionists should bring most people to their senses and hopefully they will vote against that bill as well. >> can you tell us some of the things that you are asking the labor department to do? to help stimulate job creation and to help insure workers were currently employed targeting the wages they're supposed to get? >> we are asking them to enforce laws and protect workers. that is whether it is health and safety laws in the work places, and we are asking her to step up enforcement of the fair labor standards act. people should be paid the right rate. sometimes they get reclassified. we are asking her to look into classifica

transportation security administration to do a notice and comment rule making that essentially means that the taa has to put its thinking on the record. it has to produce a docket. it has to take comments t has to review for the public what it is doing and how it decided to do what it does. that means essentially going you there the risk management steps that i talked about. what it means it's, the quality of its risk management which now must actually be done, can be reviewed by a court under a standard called arbitrary and capricious. that is fairly low standard but at least it's a standard and so far the tsa has not met any standard for implementing the strip search machines or many other of its programs, among them, david talked about the air marshals program. i think the behavior detection officers are a program at tsa is worth looking at. bdoes as they're called, are supposedly trained to spot indicators among travelers who is up to something bad, whether they're looking around further tiffly, whether sweating. whether you see palpitations in their neck that reflect a heartbeat, there is no