[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 171 (Wednesday, December 4, 2013)]
[House]
[Page H7506]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                          TPP TRADE AGREEMENT

  (Ms. KAPTUR asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Ms. KAPTUR. Madam Speaker, I rise tonight to associate myself with 
the Special Order opposing any fast track deal for the Trans-Pacific 
Partnership, or the TPP trade agreement as it is called.
  It is simply the same old trade model since 1975 that has caused this 
country to rack up over $9 trillion of trade deficit--more imports 
coming in here than exports going out. An incredible debt.
  We talk about the budget deficit. The reason we have a budget deficit 
is because we have a trade deficit and the outsourcing of jobs from 
coast to coast.
  There is simply no reason to bring up a deal under the fast track 
procedure which will not permit amendment on this floor--a deal 
negotiated in secret by yet another Presidential administration.
  Americans know how the middle class has been shrinking, how incomes 
have been shrinking, how production from coast to coast has been 
outsourced.
  I associate myself with the remarks with the Special Order this 
evening that calls on the administration to rebalance our trade 
accounts. They could take up a bill that I have authored to rebalance 
America's trade accounts and take a look at all of these nations with 
which we have amassed these huge, huge deficits while our production is 
being outsourced.
  Madam Speaker, let's table the Trans-Pacific Partnership deal. Let's 
table fast track and develop a brand-new trade model that benefits the 
United States of America and its people again so their incomes can 
rise.

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