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i'm going to ask senator mccain to preside wallach go to vote. i do have other questions for this panel so i tend to come back and ask you and you will have as much time as senator kaine will give you. >> thank you mr. chairman to the panel thank you for being here today. i have 10 or 15 minutes which is fantastic. i'm going to put myself in the camp that this is a no-brainer. i don't think that is the case because while the testimony of the panelist of urgent it puts important interest on the table energy security at the nation and its multiple ramifications. and important science about climate and the damage that we may be doing to the planet which our kids and grandkids will be the ones who will have to figure it all out if we don't take the appropriate leadership role. i think those are two compelling interest. this project in and of itself i do not leave the support of it is game over for the planet and i do not believe that opposition for it is -- it is a hard question that requires careful thought and i don't pretend to expertise on this b

they may be applied to future international trade deals namely the transpacific partnership lori wallach the author of the report has described the t.p. as a corporate coup d'etat because the scope of this twelve nation trade deal goes far beyond the mandates set by nafta and has implications on more than just the trade of tangible goods across borders in fact there's very little trade going on at all the d.p.p. is a piece of international legislation but instead of diplomats negotiating the terms there are thousands of corporate negotiators striking deals instead of constituents their stockholders whose only goals are deregulation and cheap foreign labor if the last twenty years are any indication of what happens when we loose in international pacts that protect labor rights average human beings and the environment and it's clear that the t.p. will only exacerbate the problem and that's not a risk we should be willing to take so for once let's take a moment to learn from history lest we be doomed to repeat it. it's been almost seven years since george w. bush left office but the memorie