America Gives More Act of 2015

Floor Speech

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Mr. ELLISON. Mr. Speaker, Members, trade adjustment assistance should
not be a sweetener, a trade-in coin. Trade adjustment assistance should
be what we do no matter what. It shouldn't pave the way for trade
promotion authority.

It is important and good to stand with dislocated workers who
basically are pushed off their jobs because of bad trade deals, which
we have been pursuing for 40 years. Yet here we are today, told that we
have got to vote for this trade adjustment authority, which does not
include public sector workers, which is smaller than it should be. We
have got to support it because--and the only reason we are here to
support it, the only reason we have been lobbied by no less than the
President and three top Cabinet officials, is because they know it
paves the way to trade promotion authority, which is what they really
want so that, literally, Members give up our constitutional duty.

Where are my constitutional conservatives when you need them?

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