Joe Pitts: “workers and farmers in Pennsylvania sold products ranging from chemicals to foodstuffs to pharmaceuticals to over 200…”

“workers and farmers in Pennsylvania sold products ranging from chemicals to foodstuffs to pharmaceuticals to over 200 countries last year. Those sales added up to over $24 billion and supported well over a quarter-million jobs. I shudder to think that the absence of trade promotion authority, or TPA, could jeopardize these jobs and the families they support. Without TPA, American negotiators will not have the authority they need to make sure our foreign markets will not be undercut or blocked by our competitors. H.R. 3005 is a bipartisan compromise TPA bill. We need to pass this legislation to make sure that the U.S. negotiators are on equal footing with their foreign competitors. If we fail to renew trade promotion authority, we will be failing to fight for the American workers who depend on exports, and we will be failing to fight for the countless new opportunities that the global marketplace will provide for our workers in the future. America's workers are the world's most productive. The only thing that can beat us is unfair foreign trade barriers designed to eliminate our competitive edge. So let us support the trade promotion authority bill.”