Tuesday, November 15 –

• The Senate will convene at 4:00 PM.
• Following leader remarks, the Senate will be in morning business until 5:00 PM.
• At 5:00 PM, the Senate will begin consideration of H.R. 4511, the Gold Star Families Voices Act, with 30 minutes of debate equally divided.
• At 5:30 PM, the Senate will VOTE on passage of H.R. 4511.
• Note: The Senate will convene for pro forma sessions on the following dates:
  • October 3 at 10:30 AM
  • October 6 at 10:30 AM
  • October 7 at 2:00 PM
  • October 11 at 9:00 AM
  • October 13 at 2:00 PM
  • October 17 at 11:00 AM
  • October 20 at 3:00 PM
  • October 24 at 10:30 AM
  • October 27 at 10:30 AM
  • October 31 at 4:30 PM
  • November 3 at 2:00 PM
  • November 7 at 10:30 AM
  • November 10 at 10:00 AM
  • November 14 at 5:30 PM

Senator Brown: (12:53 PM)

• Spoke on the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
  • "Let me talk about one part in particular that affects my state. There is something called rules of origin in the auto industry in order to qualify for a tariff reduction or tariff elimination to sell products, to sell a car. Under NAFTA - and NAFTA was a very flawed agreement, I helped to lead the opposition to it, we almost defeated it down the hall in the House of Representatives - under NAFTA, if a car were to qualify for tariff reduction, removal, elimination, a car had to be mostly made - 60% more or less – made in one of the three countries, U.S., Mexico or Canada. Under the TPP, the Trans-Pacific Partnership, and there are 12 countries in that, very disparate countries - Peru and the U.S. and Mexico and Canada, wealthy countries, Vietnam, poorer countries - under the rules of origin in TPP, a car can be more than half made elsewhere, like China and then still sold into the United States or sold into Canada or Mexico. So fundamentally what this means is it's created a loophole."