[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 7]
[House]
[Page 9692]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                 CONGRESS AND AMERICA OPPOSE FAST TRACK

  (Ms. KAPTUR asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Ms. KAPTUR. Madam Speaker, this afternoon, House Republican leaders 
used a trick to pass a new rule to revote the job-outsourcing, unfair, 
fast-track Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal. They buried the revote 
in the intelligence authorization.
  Well, the Republican leadership wants to buy itself another month to 
make deals, trading favors and funding pet projects in this district or 
that district, in exchange for a vote against the best interests of the 
American people, jobs in America with good wages.
  Imagine Congress fast-tracking a bill to repair our roads, bridges, 
and harbors all across this country. Imagine a bill to be fast-tracked 
to renew the powers of the Export-Import Bank that actually increases 
exports and jobs in this country.
  Instead, fast track is being rammed through Congress with House 
Republican leaders bending the rules and breaking regular order. 
Intelligence authorization bills should not be another name for secret 
fast-track life support.
  No more delays. It is overtime for Congress to move on from fast 
track to a real fair trade deal that creates jobs and good wages in 
America for a change.

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