I want to hear from you--I guess it is my assumption after listening--if you were advising us you would advise us, given the present circumstances, to vote against the TPP?
Alan Lowenthal
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Alan S. Lowenthal is a Democratic politician from California, born on March 24, 1941. He served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 2013 to 2023, representing California's 47th congressional district. During his tenure, Lowenthal focused on issues such as education, healthcare, and environmental protection, advocating for policies that support working families and promote sustainable practices. He has a background in academia and local government, having previously served in the California State Assembly and as a Long Beach city council member.
We are pushing for conditions to make Vietnam a trusted party and deserving party of the TPP and that means that they must truly respect human rights.
I think this is the inappropriate way to do it. Instead of working now at this moment to release prisoners of conscience...
I opposed granting TPA for a number of reasons but the one major reason is, and I did it in part because I really also want to protect American workers...
We should be really holding their feet to the fire and letting them demonstrate not after they become part of the TPP, but before they do that.
I was so disappointed and, frankly, absolutely shocked when just a few days after returning to the United States I learned that Nguyen Chi Tuyen... was badly beaten by five plainclothes police officers in Hanoi.
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