Paul Tonko: “Or killed. We have got documentation of how many union activists have been murdered and how many of those issues have…”

“Or killed. We have got documentation of how many union activists have been murdered and how many of those issues have been resolved, how many of those reviews by the judicial process or whatever system in their country would prosecute. None of these--very few have been resolved. So it is not just the economic consequences. It is the social injustice that we can allow with these contracts. So I thank you. I know we have been joined by Ms. Kaptur. Ms. DeLAURO. Let me make one more point. Ms. Kaptur is here, and she has really been in the forefront of these debates and these issues for so many years, because the other side tries to portray us as, well, if you don't want this fast track authority, what would you want? Over the years, and particularly over the last several months, the last year and a half, Democratic Members of the House of Representatives have written to the administration, to the USTR, that is the U.S. Trade Representative, and we have made suggestions of how we could increase congressional input into this process by looking at who the negotiating partners are, what the objectives are, the enforcement of those objectives, and how we have a chance to certify that the objectives have been met and say yes, and then we move forward, the administration moves forward. We have been said no to over and over and over again. So, in fact, there has been no congressional input, though we have tried for a very, very long time to do that.…”