Pete Sessions: “I thank the young chairman from Wisconsin for his hard work. Mr. Speaker, before we pass TPA today, the law is that the…”

“I thank the young chairman from Wisconsin for his hard work. Mr. Speaker, before we pass TPA today, the law is that the President of the United States can go negotiate whatever he wants without negotiation with the Congress and just go do it and come and plop it on our doorstep. I disagree with that, and that is why we are doing TPA, trade promotion authority, where the House of Representatives maintains its constitutional prerogatives and is empowering through TPA any President, whoever the President is, for the next 7 years to go negotiate in some 150 parameters as they negotiate. We maintain our sovereignty in this bill, including additions that we say the President cannot go negotiate--a new global warming trade bill, climate change, he cannot go negotiate anything new on immigration; it goes on and on and on--steel, and other things. We are giving the President our authority and expecting him to negotiate therein. This is a good deal for the American worker.”