On the recordJune 11, 2015
Too often, the USTR simply does not believe in law enforcement. It wouldn't enforce the law in Guatemala and Honduras under prior labor agreements. In Peru, it ignored the audit responsibility that it had. We can do better than this. We can do better than some kind of Christmas wish list of multiple objectives that this President doesn't have to follow. And indeed, this Christmas wish list is being proposed for the next President, who has not even been elected--an open-ended ability to have more trade agreements that come at the cost of too many families. We can do better.
