[Congressional Record Volume 163, Number 123 (Thursday, July 20, 2017)]
[Senate]
[Page S4090]
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                         Trade and Outsourcing

  Mr. President, just as the administration is flailing and failing on 
healthcare, they are failing on trade and outsourcing as well.
  I read today that the administration has failed to secure any 
concessions from China on its dumping of excess steel and aluminum in 
our markets, which is killing jobs in my State and in many others. As 
well, today, the Carrier plant at which President-Elect Trump tweeted 
about saving jobs just laid off 300 workers in Indiana and moved the 
positions to Mexico. It is exactly 6 months to the day since President 
Trump took office. It is a shame that we are losing these good-paying 
American jobs. Despite all of the President's tough talk on trade and 
his Commerce Secretary's ``100 days of trade talks'' plan, the loss of 
these jobs shows that, in 6 months, the Trump administration has been 
unable to actually deliver results on trade, with the exception of the 
first U.S. beef shipment to China, which was the result of an agreement 
that President Obama helped to broker before the end of his term. The 
Trump administration has made few inroads in reducing our trade deficit 
or in making it easier for our companies to compete abroad.
  It is all well and good to tweet about a few hundred jobs saved at 
the Carrier plant, as the President-elect did last December--and I am 
glad he saved them--but as President, you have to actually take strong 
action, not go to one plant. You need policies that will protect 
millions of workers from the rapacious policies of China and other 
countries. Making America great again requires more than 140 characters 
per issue. The 338 jobs that are leaving Carrier today are a reminder 
that, when it comes to actual substance and policy, the Trump 
administration has done very little to change the game on trade to keep 
jobs in the United States--another broken promise to the American 
worker.
  Mr. President, I reiterate my remarks from yesterday on the 
nomination of John Bush to the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals. Many of 
my colleagues have been down on the floor and have expressed just how 
distressing and damaging this nomination will be.
  His extreme record demonstrates that John Bush simply does not have 
the temperament to be an impartial Federal judge--the very least our 
system requires. Once again, I urge my colleagues to oppose his 
confirmation.
  Thank you.
  I yield the floor.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from New Hampshire.