[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 77 (Tuesday, May 19, 2015)]
[Senate]
[Page S3080]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 1382. Ms. STABENOW submitted an amendment intended to be proposed 
to amendment SA 1221 proposed by Mr. Hatch to the bill H.R. 1314, to 
amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for a right to an 
administrative appeal relating to adverse determinations of tax-exempt 
status of certain organizations; which was ordered to lie on the table; 
as follows:

       Beginning on page 2, strike line 11 and all that follows 
     through page 4, line 6, and insert the following:
       (1) to achieve an overall balance of payments over a 
     reasonable period of time, eliminate persistent trade 
     deficits, and reverse the accumulation of foreign debt;
       (2) to obtain the reduction or elimination of barriers and 
     distortions that are directly related to trade and investment 
     and that increase the United States trade deficit;
       (3) to further strengthen the system of international trade 
     and investment disciplines and procedures, including dispute 
     settlement;
       (4) to foster economic growth, raise living standards, 
     enhance the competitiveness of the United States, promote 
     full employment in the United States, and substantially 
     reduce global current account imbalances;
       (5) to ensure that trade and environmental policies are 
     mutually supportive and to seek to protect and preserve the 
     environment and enhance the international means of doing so, 
     while optimizing the use of the world's resources;
       (6) to promote respect for worker rights and the rights of 
     children consistent with core labor standards of the ILO (as 
     set out in section 111(7)) and an understanding of the 
     relationship between trade and worker rights;
       (7) to seek provisions in trade agreements under which 
     parties to those agreements ensure that they do not weaken or 
     reduce the protections afforded in domestic environmental and 
     labor laws as an encouragement for trade;
       (8) to ensure that trade agreements afford small businesses 
     equal access to international markets amd increased net 
     export results and provide for the reduction or elimination 
     of trade and investment barriers that disproportionately 
     impact small businesses;
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