Sander Levin
The Public Record
Your feet have been in concrete while you have brought up bill after bill to try to destroy ACA.
Well, I am not surprised at the tone, but I really think it is so counterproductive.
Unfortunately, the Hatch-Wyden-Ryan Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) does not move us toward a stronger TPP agreement.
We need to be very much involved in pushing that issue, and getting it into the TPP negotiations.
We need to have more than a negotiating objective. We need to be involved in how an objective is being implemented specifically.
We need to know what the heck is going on, and be able to lean in if it isn't going well.
The Trans-Pacific Partnership is potentially a trade package of historic significance.
The notice advising this hearing focused on trade promotion authority, specifically the TPA legislation introduced in January by you, Mr. Chairman, and former Senator Baucus.
Non-defense discretionary funding levels are now being lowered to levels that we haven't seen in decades.
This hearing should be for us listening to her story and the stories of so many others.





