[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 94 (Friday, June 12, 2015)]
[House]
[Page H4337]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




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                       TRADE PROMOTION AUTHORITY

  (Mr. LaMALFA asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. LaMALFA. Mr. Speaker, trade promotion authority has passed the 
House on a pretty good bipartisan basis here. This will give the United 
States the tools it needs to send a message around the world that we 
are going to be competitive and we are going to be serious about trade.
  It also gives the Congress very important tools to adhere to the 
principles that we in this House believe are important to hold the USTR 
and the White House accountable with all of our principles together for 
what is good for the country.
  When we have huge tariffs on some of the products we try and export 
around the world, it makes it noncompetitive. This will send, again, a 
very strong signal the U.S. is ready to compete; it is not going to be 
pushed around on trade, and TPA will be a good tool to do that.
  However, it is not TPP, which we haven't had much input on lately, 
and is very difficult to get at. People need to understand, there is a 
strong difference between TPA, that authorization, and TPP, which is 
still not finished, still not negotiated, and is something that is a 
complete separate question from TPA, which I think was a responsible 
measure we got done here today.
  We need to clear up the misconceptions on what is happening and the 
good measures we in this House did today in order to have America and 
more jobs be able to come home and stay in the U.S. because of better 
trade policy.

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