[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 147 (2001), Part 16]
[House]
[Page 21960]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                       TRADE PROMOTION AUTHORITY

  (Mr. CALVERT asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. CALVERT. Mr. Speaker, the growth of services in the U.S. economy 
has been a tremendous boon to our Nation's GDP and the rate of 
employment. The benefit of services trade are particularly evident in 
my home State of California, and at the local level. In California, for 
example, services account for more than 85 percent of the State economy 
and 77 percent of employment.
  There are over 5,500 establishments exporting professional, 
scientific and technical services in California. Those establishments 
alone provide jobs for more than 130,000 people, according to the most 
recent U.S. Census Bureau data.
  Software publishers, broadcasting and telecommunications services 
employ another 130,000 people in California, a number which would grow 
if new trade agreements that would reduce barriers to services and 
tariffs on industrial products and agriculture are signed.
  The services sector needs successful trade negotiations that expand 
substantially opportunities for U.S. trade in services. Trade 
negotiating authority plays a crucial role in our country's ability to 
negotiate, and implement, these negotiations; and so we need to move 
these negotiations along.

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