my question on enforcement issue is, outline what steps your office willing to take, ustr, to put in place a new commitment to trade enforcement. >> we are very committed to trade enforcement and happy to talk about what further steps we can take. i've mentioned that we have brought more than nine cases, cases against china twice before. we brought the first ever case on a labor issue, guatemala and where continue to pursue that. we have created this in the agency trade enforcement center at ustr with great support from the commerce department as well as from other departments. that has allowed us to put together more complex cases than we've ever been able to put together before. we have people from all over the government, the whole of government approach, people with language resources, country expertise, domain subject knowledge and are able to put together these very complicated cases and bring them. we are very much focused and we agree with you completely that part of the deal of negotiating new agreements is to ensure that we are monitoring, implementing and enforcing our exi

i am also deeply impressed by the caliber of your staff and their work to the ustr. yet, despite your best efforts, the agency still ranks dead last in employee job satisfaction amongst all agencies. part of the problem -- excuse me -- is ustr's failure to effectively play its traditional role. too often during the interagency process, regulatory agencies are just saying no to cooperative participation in international trade negotiations. for example, with the department of health and human services, the need for so-called, quote, policy space, unquote, resulting in ustr's proposal to simply carve out tobacco products from the trans-pacific partnership negotiation. it was the treasury's insistence in -- to pre-existing forms that resulted in the position that financial services should be carved out of our trade negotiations with the european uniyofpblet and despite the strong support of u.s. agriculture and food provide sessor groups for fully enforceable chapter in t.p.p., it was the food and drug administration's fear of dispute settlement that resulted in a weaker

provides funding for the ustr to continue advocating for the t.p.p. in the transatlantic trade and investment partnership or t tip. and continue enforcing existing free trade agreements. more specifically funding through this bill and funding of ustr will protect intellectual property rights abroad. i continue to maintain very serious concerns with canada's misapplication of internationally recognized patent standards. which appears to violate their international obligations. having a really economic impact on innovative american companies. i appreciate that ustr's expressed serious concern about these practices in the last year through their special 301 report, given canada's continued failure to bring its patent standards in line with interarble -- international obligations and practices. i urge canada to the special 301 priority watch list in 2014. i.p. is one of the main engines of the united states innovative economy with approximately one third of u.s. jobs and 60% of our exports relying on the u.p. with more than 95% of the world's population l

part of the problem, excuse me, is ustr's failure to effectively play its traditional role as a bulwark against other federal agencies. too often during the interagency process, regulatory agencies are just saying no to cooperative participation in international trade negotiations. for example, it was the department of health and human services that alleged the need for so-called, quote, policy space, unquote resulting in ustr's proposal to simply carve out tobacco products from the trans-pacific partnership negotiations. it was the department of treasury's insistence on relegating financial services' discussion to pre-existing forms that resulted in ustr's position that financial services should be carved out of our trade negotiations with the european union. and despite the strong support of u.s. agricultural and food processer groups for fully enforceable sanitary chapter in tpp, it was the food and drug administration's fear of dispute settlement that resulted in a weaker ustr proposal which excludes certainties palins from dispute -- certain disciplines from dispute settlement. the

you previously indicated ustr is considering a challenge to the e.u. tariffs at the world trade organization. i wondered if you could comment on where ustr is in the decision-making progress and what ethanol producers might expect a decision? >> we are continuing to look into that issue and develop our options. we will consult as we go through the process. >> ok. i wanted to mention one other thing. that is -- and you have heard this many times -- the importance of market access for agricultural in the japanese market. for those of us making sure that the t.p.p. result in significant new market access opportunities for u.s. agriculture is going to be critical. i'm wondering if you could elaborate on the president's discussions on the topic of the japanese prime minister last week? how would you characterize those negotiations with japan following the president's trip to asia? >> thank you. access to japan's market is critical of our overall initiative. i've made clear that the products we sell into japan, and we need to address their historic barriers.

like bangladesh submitted their latest gsp action plan progress report to the ustr. i understand that it was reportedly discussed during the trade and investment cooperation a few days ago. given recent reports of union suppression, how realistic is the bangladesh government self-assessment of their progress on the action plans ensure members from 18 mender -- antiunion termination? what is your assessment question expend as you know, we gsp based on worker conditions in bangladesh. we developed an action plan with them for the steps necessary for them to take. have taken that they some steps. there is work to be done. we're going to continue to engage with them on the work that needs to be done and encourage them to take good actions. >> finally, our trade policy agenda report of 2014 talked to latin. good exports in the caribbean increasing, the fastest rate of growth to any region in the world. almost 40% increase over the previous three years. pretty dramatic. are there other opportunities that we we need to pursue based upon that growth? >> senator, there are op

issue, this is an issue that actually, sharon brown, rosh portman, the former bush administration ustr, 57 senators signed a letter say we got to look out for our pipe and tube makers. ted cruz, john cornyn didn't sign it. texas is the number one state. i'll be in loan star texas where they make good pipe and tube on monday and we'll rally support and get texans to say no matter what party you are you got to in american jobs and you got to support american manufacturing and wrap yourselves in the flag to support american workers. but you got to sign your narm to a piece of paper to show you really mean it, i think. >> where are the elected officials in texas. nowhere to be found on middle class jobs and the steel industry. scott paul, alliance for american manufacturing. good to have you with us tonight. appreciate your time. >>> coming up, a strong cup of texas tea. the tea party sweeps primary runoff in a conservative stronghold. first, they call it quits with the republican party. trenders is next. stick around we're right back on "the ed show." mom! awesome! dad!! i missed you. ♪ o

currently there are negotiations going on with ustr. this amendment would prohibit funding to have any of the negotiations enter into a trade agreement that would establish a limit on greenhouse gas emissions. this congress in the 110th congress democratically controlled congress rejected the cap and trade and -- in 2009 and it would be very clear in supporting this amendment that we would carry on the will of the house in terms of making sure that we don't use any funds to circumvent the will of congress. additionally, u.s. chamber of commerce came out recently with proposed rules from the e.p.a. that are set to come out next week that would indicate that these type of rules could cost anywhere in the neighborhood of 3 1/2 million jobs over the next 15 years. with that i would reserve the balance of my time. the chair: the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. seek time in opposition? seeing none, the gentleman from north carolina is recognized for the remainder of his time. mr. meadows: i yield back the balance of my time. the c