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Senate amendment to H.R. 1314 - Trade Act of 2015
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COMMITTEE ACTION:
REPORTED BY RECORD VOTE of 9-4 on Thursday, June 11, 2015.
FLOOR ACTION ON H. RES. 305:
Agreed to by record vote of 217-212 on Thursday, June 11, 2015.
MANAGERS: Sessions/Slaughter
1. Provides for the consideration of the Senate amendment to H.R. 1314.
2. Makes in order a motion offered by the chair of the Committee on Ways and Means or his designee that the House concur in the Senate amendment to H.R. 1314.
3. Waives all points of order against consideration of the motion.
4. Provides that the Senate amendment and the motion shall be considered as read.
5. Provides one hour of debate on the motion equally divided and controlled by the chair and ranking minority member of the Committee on Ways and Means.
6. Provides that the question on adoption of the motion shall be divided as follows: (1) concurring in section 212 of the Senate amendment (relating to Medicare); (2) concurring in the matter comprising the remainder of title II of the Senate amendment (TAA); and (3) concurring in the matter preceding title II of the Senate amendment (TPA). The first portion of the divided question shall be considered as adopted.
7. Provides that if any remaining portion of the divided question fails, then the House shall be considered to have made no disposition of the Senate amendment.
8. Section 2 provides for the consideration of the Senate amendments to H.R. 644 .
9. Makes in order a single motion offered by the chair of the Committee on Ways and Means or his designee that the House: (1) concur in the Senate amendment to the title; and (2) concur in the Senate amendment to the text with the amendment printed in part A of the Rules Committee report modified by the amendment printed in part B of the report.
10. Waives all points of order against consideration of the motion and provides that the motion is not subject to a demand for division of the question.
11. Provides that the Senate amendments and the motion shall be considered as read.
12. Provides one hour of debate on the motion equally divided and controlled by the chair and ranking minority member of the Committee on Ways and Means.
13. Provides that if the motion is adopted, the chair of the Committee on Ways and Means or his designee is then authorized to move that the House insist on its amendment to the Senate amendment to the text of H.R. 644 and request a conference with the Senate thereon.
Amendments
| # | Version # | Sponsor(s) | Party | Summary | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 61 | Version 1 | Becerra (CA) | Democrat | Provides that fast track procedures will not apply to a trade agreement that does not include explicit protections for government health policies and programs, such as Medicare and Medicaid, from investment disputes. | Submitted |
| 62 | Version 1 | Becerra (CA) | Democrat | Requires trade agreements to include a strong and enforceable currency manipulation provision in order for a trade agreement to be considered under fast track procedures. | Submitted |
| 17 | Version 1 | Brooks (AL) | Republican | Prohibits the application of trade authorities procedures with respect to any bill implementing a trade agreement that permits modification of the agreement without congressional approval. | Submitted |
| 67 | Version 1 | Crdenas , Tony (CA) | Democrat | Increases relocation assistance and expands scope of allowance to workers relocating to an area with at least 2% lower unemployment than their home address, whether or not the worker has received a job offer, along with additional reporting requirements. | Submitted |
| 25 | Version 1 | Cicilline (RI), Pocan (WI), Maloney, Sean (NY), Snchez, Linda (CA), Lynch (MA) | Democrat | Prohibits the President from entering into trade agreements under this act with countries that have an established penal code that legalizes violence, criminalization, or execution of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered individuals by reason of their actual or perceived sexual orientation or gender identity. | Submitted |
| 6 | Version 1 | Clawson (FL), Mulvaney (SC), Kildee (MI), Perry (PA), Brooks (AL), Brat (VA), Sensenbrenner (WI), Duncan (SC), Kelly, Robin (IL), Posey (FL), Franks (AZ), Pocan (WI), Norcross (NJ), Tonko (NY), Maloney, Sean (NY) | Bi-Partisan | Addresses the practice of currency manipulation in trade agreements | Submitted |
| 26 | Version 1 | Clawson (FL), Kildee (MI), Mulvaney (SC), Perry (PA), Brooks (AL), Brat (VA), Sensenbrenner (WI), Duncan (SC), Kelly, Robin (IL), Posey (FL), Pocan (WI), Franks (AZ), Norcross (NJ), Tonko (NY), Maloney, Sean (NY), Walberg (MI), Slaughter (NY), Lawrence (MI), Kaptur (OH), Dingell (MI), Jones (NC), Kennedy (MA) | Bi-Partisan | Addresses the practice of currency manipulation in trade agreements. | Submitted |
| 2 | Version 1 | Cramer, Kevin (ND) | Republican | Repeals the limitation of crude oil to be exported from the United States and allows the President to impose a ban during a national emergency. | Submitted |
| 65 | Version 1 | DeFazio (OR) | Democrat | Prohibits the president from entering into a trade agreement under the bill’s authority if the the trade agreement does not fully protect the right of the U.S. to require, in a nondiscriminatory manner, disclosure of country of origin of food. | Submitted |
| 11 | Version 1 | Dingell (MI), Edwards (MD), McCollum (MN) | Democrat | Requires a vote in Congress before any other county can join, or “dock,” into the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement. | Submitted |
| 20 | Version 1 | Doggett (TX) | Democrat | Ensures maximum accessibility to trade texts. | Submitted |
| 21 | Version 1 | Doggett (TX) | Democrat | Strips fast track authority from any agreement that fails to improve the investor state dispute settlement system. | Submitted |
| 22 | Version 1 | Doggett (TX), Tonko (NY) | Democrat | Strips fast track authority from an agreement that fails to require the parties to adopt, maintain, and implement all seven multilateral environmental agreements. | Submitted |
| 28 | Version 1 | Grayson (FL) | Democrat | Requires that prior to entering into any trade agreement, the U.S. Trade Representative shall certify to Congress and the President that the proposed trade agreement will lower the U.S. trade deficit. | Submitted |
| 29 | Version 1 | Grayson (FL) | Democrat | requires that prior to entering into any trade agreement, the U.S. Trade Representative shall certify to Congress and the President that the U.S. trade deficit is less than $100,000,000,000. | Submitted |
| 30 | Version 1 | Grayson (FL) | Democrat | Requires that if at any time after the United States enters into a trade agreement the U.S. trade deficit rises more than $1,000,000,000, the United States shall withdraw from the trade agreement. | Submitted |
| 32 | Version 1 | Grayson (FL) | Democrat | Requires that prior to entering into any trade agreement, the U.S. Trade Representative shall certify to Congress and the President that the proposed trade agreement will decrease unemployment in the United States. If at any time after the United States enters into a trade agreement the U.S. unemployment rate rises more than one percent, the United States shall withdraw from the trade agreement. | Submitted |
| 33 | Version 1 | Grayson (FL) | Democrat | Requires that prior to entering into any trade agreement, the U.S. Trade Representative shall certify to Congress and the President that every signatory and proposed signatory has a statutory minimum wage at least as high as the minimum wage in effect in the United States. | Submitted |
| 34 | Version 1 | Grayson (FL) | Democrat | Requires that prior to entering into any trade agreement, the U.S. Trade Representative shall certify to Congress and the President that every signatory and proposed signatory has environmental standards in place that are at least equivalent to those in effect in the United States. | Submitted |
| 35 | Version 1 | Grayson (FL) | Democrat | Requires that prior to entering into any trade agreement, the U.S. Trade Representative shall certify to Congress and the President that no signatory or proposed signatory collects private electronic data on its citizens in violation of its own constitution. | Submitted |
| 36 | Version 1 | Grayson (FL) | Democrat | Requires that prior to entering into any trade agreement, the U.S. Trade Representative shall certify to Congress and the President that every signatory and proposed signatory has worker safety standards in place that are at least equivalent to those in effect in the United States. | Submitted |
| 37 | Version 1 | Grayson (FL) | Democrat | Requires that prior to entering into any trade agreement, the U.S. Trade Representative shall certify to Congress and the President that every signatory and proposed signatory has consumer protection standards in place that are at least equivalent to those in effect in the United States. | Submitted |
| 38 | Version 1 | Grayson (FL) | Democrat | Requires that prior to entering into any trade agreement, the U.S. Trade Representative shall certify to Congress and the President that every signatory and proposed signatory has in effect an old-age pension scheme. | Submitted |
| 39 | Version 1 | Grayson (FL) | Democrat | Requires that prior to entering into any trade agreement, the U.S. Trade Representative shall certify to Congress and the President that the proposed trade agreement provides for the opportunity for any U.S. citizen or U.S. entity to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court as a court of last resort. | Submitted |
| 40 | Version 1 | Grayson (FL) | Democrat | Requires that prior to entering into any trade agreement, the U.S. Trade Representative shall certify to Congress and the President that the proposed trade agreement contains a sunset provision that establishes an end date no less than five years after the date the agreement is signed. | Submitted |
| 41 | Version 1 | Grayson (FL) | Democrat | Requires that prior to entering into any trade agreement, the U.S. Trade Representative shall certify to Congress and the President that the proposed trade agreement contains no provision that would prohibit the United States Congress from enacting legislation requiring specified products purchased by the U.S. government be made in America. | Submitted |
| 42 | Version 1 | Grayson (FL) | Democrat | Requires that prior to entering into any trade agreement, the U.S. Trade Representative shall certify to Congress and the President that the proposed trade agreement contains intellectual property protections that are at least as strong as those found in American law. | Submitted |
| 43 | Version 1 | Grayson (FL) | Democrat | Requires that prior to entering into any trade agreement, the U.S. Trade Representative shall certify to Congress and the President the expected trade benefits of the proposed trade agreement. If the United States does not achieve the expected trade benefits within three years of entering into a trade agreement, the United States shall withdraw from the trade agreement. | Submitted |
| 44 | Version 1 | Grayson (FL) | Democrat | Requires that prior to entering into any trade agreement, the U.S. Trade Representative shall certify to Congress and the President that every signatory and proposed signatory has a democratic form of government. | Submitted |
| 45 | Version 1 | Grayson (FL) | Democrat | Requires that prior to entering into any trade agreement, the U.S. Trade Representative shall certify to Congress and the President that no signatory or proposed signatory engages in active and pervasive internet censorship. | Submitted |
| 46 | Version 1 | Grayson (FL) | Democrat | Requires that prior to entering into any trade agreement, the U.S. Trade Representative shall certify to Congress and the President that every signatory and proposed signatory provides for freedom of its press to at least the same extent as the United States. | Submitted |
| 47 | Version 1 | Grayson (FL) | Democrat | Requires that prior to entering into any trade agreement, the U.S. Trade Representative shall certify to Congress and the President that every signatory and proposed signatory prohibits forced labor. | Submitted |
| 48 | Version 1 | Grayson (FL) | Democrat | Requires that prior to entering into any trade agreement, the U.S. Trade Representative shall certify to Congress and the President that every signatory and proposed signatory prohibits child labor. | Submitted |
| 49 | Version 1 | Grayson (FL) | Democrat | Requires that prior to entering into any trade agreement, the U.S. Trade Representative shall certify to Congress and the President that every signatory and proposed signatory grants freedom of religion to its citizens to at least the same extent as the United States. | Submitted |
| 50 | Version 1 | Grayson (FL) | Democrat | Requires that prior to entering into any trade agreement, the U.S. Trade Representative shall certify to Congress and the President that every signatory and proposed signatory grants freedom of speech to its citizens to at least the same extent as the United States. | Submitted |
| 51 | Version 1 | Grayson (FL) | Democrat | Requires that prior to entering into any trade agreement, the U.S. Trade Representative shall certify to Congress and the President that every signatory and proposed signatory grants freedom of assembly to its citizens to at least the same extent as the United States. | Submitted |
| 52 | Version 1 | Grayson (FL) | Democrat | Requires that prior to entering into any trade agreement, the U.S. Trade Representative shall certify to Congress and the President that every signatory and proposed signatory grants its citizens the right to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures at least to the same extent as the United States. | Submitted |
| 53 | Version 1 | Grayson (FL) | Democrat | Requires that prior to entering into any trade agreement, the U.S. Trade Representative shall certify to Congress and the President that every signatory and proposed signatory grants its citizens the right to be secure from the taking of private property for public use without just compensation to at least the same extent as the United States. | Submitted |
| 54 | Version 1 | Grayson (FL) | Democrat | Requires that prior to entering into any trade agreement, the U.S. Trade Representative shall certify to Congress and the President that every signatory and proposed signatory prohibits cruel and unusual punishment from being inflicted upon its citizens at least to the same degree as the U.S. government protects American citizens. | Submitted |
| 55 | Version 1 | Grayson (FL) | Democrat | Requires that prior to entering into any trade agreement, the U.S. Trade Representative shall certify to Congress and the President that every signatory and proposed signatory guarantees it citizens the right enumerated in Article 23, Section 2, of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. | Submitted |
| 56 | Version 1 | Grayson (FL) | Democrat | Requires that prior to entering into any trade agreement, the U.S. Trade Representative shall certify to Congress and the President that every signatory and proposed signatory guarantees it citizens the right enumerated in Article 23, Section 4, of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. | Submitted |
| 57 | Version 1 | Grayson (FL) | Democrat | Requires tat prior to entering into any trade agreement, the U.S. Trade Representative shall certify to Congress and the President that every signatory and proposed signatory guarantees it citizens the right enumerated in Article 26, Section 1, of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights which states: “Everyone has the right to education. Education shall be free, at least in the elementary and fundamental stages. Elementary education shall be compulsory. Technical and professional education shall be made generally available and higher education shall be equally accessible to all on the basis of merit.” | Submitted |
| 58 | Version 1 | Grayson (FL) | Democrat | Requires that prior to entering into any trade agreement, the U.S. Trade Representative shall certify to Congress and the President that section 108 of this Act will be explicitly stated, verbatim, in any final legal text of a trade agreement. | Submitted |
| 19 | Version 1 | Grijalva (AZ), Ellison (MN), Schakowsky (IL) | Democrat | Restores Trade Adjustment Assistance funding levels to $575 million a year, includes coverage for vulnerable public sector employees, and to remove offsets including cuts to Medicare. | Submitted |
| 10 | Version 1 | Hice, Jody (GA) | Republican | Adds a negotiating objective to TPA related to federal immigration laws. | Submitted |
| 63 | Version 1 | Hunter (CA) | Republican | Ensures no changes to the underlying trade agreement occur without Congressional approval. | Submitted |
| 64 | Version 1 | Hunter (CA) | Republican | Limits the inclusion of immigration provisions within a trade agreement. | Submitted |
| 59 | Version 1 | Jones (NC) | Republican | Prohibits the application of fast track trade promotion procedures to any implementing bill that permits modification of a trade agreement without Congressional approval. | Submitted |
| 60 | Version 1 | Jones (NC) | Republican | Prohibits the application of fast track trade promotion procedures to any implementing bill that affects U.S. immigration law. | Submitted |
| 16 | Version 1 | Levin, Sander (MI) | Democrat | Ensures that fast track procedures only apply to the Trans-Pacific Partnership if, among other things, Congress determines that the final agreement satisfies detailed negotiating instructions regarding the outstanding issues in the negotiations. | Submitted |
| 23 | Version 1 | Levin, Sander (MI) | Democrat | Restores the funding for worker training in TAA to previous levels ($575 million), restore funding for TAA for Firms to previous levels ($50 million), include public sector workers, and replace the Medicare Sequester payfor. | Submitted |
| 27 | Version 1 | Lewis, John (GA), Edwards (MD) | Democrat | Provides instructions on labor and human rights and add a procedure where, if appropriate, human rights legislation may be added to an implementing bill. | Submitted |
| 9 | Version 1 | Lipinski (IL), Jones (NC) | Bi-Partisan | Provides that protecting Buy American, Buy America, and Buy Local provisions are negotiating objectives for the United States Trade Representative as it negotiates free trade agreements under this bill. | Submitted |
| 12 | Version 1 | Lipinski (IL) | Democrat | Sets forth requirements that the International Trade Commission, Department of Labor, and Government Accountability Office report on the operation of free trade agreements in terms of jobs, exports, and trade balance. Provides that upon determination by these agencies that certain negative economic effects have occurred, any Member of Congress would have the right to submit a bill that would cancel the deleterious free trade agreement through expedited procedures on the House floor. | Submitted |
| 14 | Version 1 | Lynch (MA) | Democrat | Requires that 40% of the parts or components on Japanese cars sold in the USA be made in the USA. | Submitted |
| 15 | Version 1 | Lynch (MA) | Democrat | Requires that there shall be an immediate suspension of trade preferences for the Trans-Pacific Partnership country if a trade unionist is killed by a government official or government entity in that Trans-Pacific Partnership country during trade unionist activity. Provides that if the trade unionist is a United States citizen, the accused shall be extradited to the United States for prosecution. | Submitted |
| 66 | Version 1 | McDermott (WA) | Democrat | Changes the date by which the president may enter into a trade agreement under the Bipartisan Congressional Trade Priorities and Accountability Act of 2015 to January 1, 2017. | Submitted |
| 31 | Version 1 | Mulvaney (SC), Meadows (NC), Bridenstine (OK), Perry (PA), Amash (MI), Palmer (AL), Loudermilk (GA), Clawson (FL), Labrador (ID), Jordan (OH) | Republican | Changes the disapproval process in the bill to an approval process to grant fast track authority. | Submitted |
| 1 | Version 2 | Pocan (WI), DeFazio (OR), Slaughter (NY) | Democrat | Revised Prevents fast-track procedures in the underlying bill from applying to trade deals that include Investor-State Dispute Settlements (ISDS) provisions, which allow foreign companies to challenge U.S. laws and undermine U.S. sovereignty. | Submitted |
| 13 | Version 2 | Pocan (WI) | Democrat | Withdrawn Requires that the trade authorities provided in the underlying bill may not apply to any trade agreement with a country that has adopted sharia law. | Withdrawn |
| 3 | Version 1 | Polis (CO) | Democrat | Sets out limitations and exceptions to exclusive rights as principal negotiating objectives with regard to trade-related intellectual property. | Submitted |
| 4 | Version 1 | Polis (CO) | Democrat | Amends the underlying bill to include the prohibition of illegal trade in wildlife, timber, and marine resources as a negotiating objective. | Submitted |
| 5 | Version 1 | Polis (CO) | Democrat | Requires the President to study the impacts of any new free trade agreement on global greenhouse gas emissions. | Submitted |
| 7 | Version 1 | Polis (CO) | Democrat | Clarifies that foreign investors do not receive greater rights than domestic investors in trade agreements. | Submitted |
| 8 | Version 1 | Polis (CO) | Democrat | Clarifies that no foreign corporation has the right to repeal state, federal or local laws, including laws pertaining to public health and safety. | Submitted |
| 18 | Version 1 | Slaughter (NY), DeLauro (CT), Edwards (MD), DeFazio (OR), Pascrell (NJ) | Democrat | Prohibits fast track for trade agreements that permit the import of food, feed, or food ingredients or products that do not meet or exceed U.S. standards with respect to food safety, pesticides, inspections, packaging, and labeling into the United States from a country that is a party to the trade agreement. | Submitted |
| 24 | Version 1 | Tonko (NY) | Democrat | Adds climate change mitigation to the labor and environment negotiating objectives. | Submitted |
Committee Votes
Rules Committee Record Vote No. 64
Motion by Ms. Slaughter to make in order and provide the appropriate waivers for amendment #18 to H.R. 1314, offered by Rep. Slaughter (NY), Rep. Pascrell Jr. (NJ), Rep. Edwards (MD), Rep. DeFazio (OR), and Rep. DeLauro (CT), which prohibits fast track for trade agreements that permit the import of food, feed, or food ingredients or products that do not meet or exceed U.S. standards with respect to food safety, pesticides, inspections, packaging, and labeling into the United States from a country that is a party to the trade agreement. Defeated: 4–9
Majority MemberVote
Ms. FoxxNay
Mr. ColeNay
Mr. WoodallNay
Mr. BurgessNay
Mr. StiversNay
Mr. CollinsNay
Mr. ByrneNay
Mr. NewhouseNay
Mr. Sessions, ChairmanNay
Minority MemberVote
Ms. SlaughterYea
Mr. McGovernYea
Mr. HastingsYea
Mr. PolisYea
Rules Committee Record Vote No. 65
Motion by Mr. McGovern to amend the rule so that the Ryan amendments to H.R. 644 and H.R. 1295, as well as the Senate amendment to H.R. 1314, are all subject to amendment on the floor, and considered under an open process. Defeated: 4–9
Majority MemberVote
Ms. FoxxNay
Mr. ColeNay
Mr. WoodallNay
Mr. BurgessNay
Mr. StiversNay
Mr. CollinsNay
Mr. ByrneNay
Mr. NewhouseNay
Mr. Sessions, ChairmanNay
Minority MemberVote
Ms. SlaughterYea
Mr. McGovernYea
Mr. HastingsYea
Mr. PolisYea
Rules Committee Record Vote No. 66
Motion by Mr. McGovern to make in order and provide the appropriate waivers for amendments to H.R. 1314: amendment #20, offered by Rep. Doggett (TX), which ensures maximum accessibility to trade texts; amendment #21, offered by Rep. Doggett (TX), which strips fast track authority from any agreement that fails to improve the investor state dispute settlement system; and amendment #22, offered by Rep. Doggett (TX) and Rep. Tonko (NY), which strips fast track authority from an agreement that fails to require the parties to adopt, maintain, and implement all seven multilateral environmental agreements. Defeated: 4–9
Majority MemberVote
Ms. FoxxNay
Mr. ColeNay
Mr. WoodallNay
Mr. BurgessNay
Mr. StiversNay
Mr. CollinsNay
Mr. ByrneNay
Mr. NewhouseNay
Mr. Sessions, ChairmanNay
Minority MemberVote
Ms. SlaughterYea
Mr. McGovernYea
Mr. HastingsYea
Mr. PolisYea
Rules Committee Record Vote No. 67
Motion by Mr. Hastings of Florida to make in order and provide the appropriate waivers for amendments to H.R. 1314: amendment #1, offered by Rep. Pocan (WI), Rep. Slaughter (NY), and Rep. DeFazio (OR), which prevents fast-track procedures in the underlying bill from applying to trade deals that include Investor-State Dispute Settlements (ISDS) provisions, which allow foreign companies to challenge U.S. laws and undermine U.S. sovereignty; amendment #9, offered by Rep. Lipinski (IL) and Rep. Jones (NC), which provides that protecting Buy American, Buy America, and Buy Local provisions are negotiating objectives for the United States Trade Representative as it negotiates free trade agreements under this bill; amendment #16, offered by Rep. Levin (MI), which ensures that fast track procedures only apply to the Trans-Pacific Partnership if, among other things, Congress determines that the final agreement satisfies detailed negotiating instructions regarding the outstanding issues in the negotiations; amendment #24, offered by Rep. Tonko (NY), which adds climate change mitigation to the labor and environment negotiating objectives; amendment #25, offered by Rep. Cicilline (RI), Rep. Maloney (NY), Rep. Pocan (WI), Rep. Sánchez (CA), and Rep. Lynch (MA), which prohibits the President from entering into trade agreements under this act with countries that have an established penal code that legalizes violence, criminalization, or execution of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered individuals by reason of their actual or perceived sexual orientation or gender identity; amendment #27, offered by Rep. Lewis (GA) and Rep. Edwards (MD), which provides instructions on labor and human rights and add a procedure where, if appropriate, human rights legislation may be added to an implementing bill; and amendment #61, offered by Rep. Becerra (CA), which provides that fast track procedures will not apply to a trade agreement that does not include explicit protections for government health policies and programs, such as Medicare and Medicaid, from investment disputes. Defeated: 4–9
Majority MemberVote
Ms. FoxxNay
Mr. ColeNay
Mr. WoodallNay
Mr. BurgessNay
Mr. StiversNay
Mr. CollinsNay
Mr. ByrneNay
Mr. NewhouseNay
Mr. Sessions, ChairmanNay
Minority MemberVote
Ms. SlaughterYea
Mr. McGovernYea
Mr. HastingsYea
Mr. PolisYea
Rules Committee Record Vote No. 68
Motion by Mr. Hastings of Florida to make in order and provide the appropriate waivers for amendment #26 to H.R. 1314, offered by Rep. Clawson (FL), Rep. Mulvaney (SC), Rep. Maloney (NY), Rep. Norcross (NJ), Rep. Tonko (NY), Rep. Pocan (WI), Rep. Perry (PA), Rep. Sensenbrenner Jr. (WI), Rep. Kaptur (OH), Rep. Dingell (MI), Rep. Walberg (MI), Rep. Duncan (SC), Rep. Slaughter (NY), Rep. Jones (NC), Rep. Brat (VA), Rep. Posey (FL), Rep. Brooks (AL), Rep. Kennedy (MA), Rep. Lawrence (MI), Rep. Franks (AZ), Rep. Kelly (IL), and Rep. Kildee (MI), which addresses the practice of currency manipulation in trade agreements. Defeated: 4–9
Majority MemberVote
Ms. FoxxNay
Mr. ColeNay
Mr. WoodallNay
Mr. BurgessNay
Mr. StiversNay
Mr. CollinsNay
Mr. ByrneNay
Mr. NewhouseNay
Mr. Sessions, ChairmanNay
Minority MemberVote
Ms. SlaughterYea
Mr. McGovernYea
Mr. HastingsYea
Mr. PolisYea
Rules Committee Record Vote No. 69
Motion by Mr. Polis to make in order and provide the appropriate waivers for amendments to H.R. 1314: amendment #3, offered by Rep. Polis (CO), which sets out limitations and exceptions to exclusive rights as principal negotiating objectives with regard to trade-related intellectual property; amendment #4, offered by Rep. Polis (CO), which amends the underlying bill to include the prohibition of illegal trade in wildlife, timber, and marine resources as a negotiating objective; amendment #5, offered by Rep. Polis (CO), which requires the President to study the impacts of any new free trade agreement on global greenhouse gas emissions; amendment #7, offered by Rep. Polis (CO), which clarifies that foreign investors do not receive greater rights than domestic investors in trade agreements; and amendment #8, offered by Rep. Polis (CO), which clarifies that no foreign corporation has the right to repeal state, federal or local laws, including laws pertaining to public health and safety; as well as amendment #5 to H.R. 644, offered by Rep. Polis (CO), which expresses the sense of congress that the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) should encourage other nations to follow the lead of the U.S. by increasing de minimis values to a commercially meaningful level. Defeated: 4–9
Majority MemberVote
Ms. FoxxNay
Mr. ColeNay
Mr. WoodallNay
Mr. BurgessNay
Mr. StiversNay
Mr. CollinsNay
Mr. ByrneNay
Mr. NewhouseNay
Mr. Sessions, ChairmanNay
Minority MemberVote
Ms. SlaughterYea
Mr. McGovernYea
Mr. HastingsYea
Mr. PolisYea
Rules Committee Record Vote No. 70
Motion by Ms. Foxx to report the rule. Adopted: 9-4
Majority MemberVote
Ms. FoxxYea
Mr. ColeYea
Mr. WoodallYea
Mr. BurgessYea
Mr. StiversYea
Mr. CollinsYea
Mr. ByrneYea
Mr. NewhouseYea
Mr. Sessions, ChairmanYea
Minority MemberVote
Ms. SlaughterNay
Mr. McGovernNay
Mr. HastingsNay
Mr. PolisNay
Rules Committee Record Vote No. 71
Motion by Ms. Slaughter to amend the rule to provide that if the House reconsiders the vote on Trade Adjustment Assistance, the House shall also reconsider the vote on Trade Promotion Authority. Defeated: 3–7
Majority MemberVote
Ms. FoxxNay
Mr. ColeNo Vote
Mr. WoodallNay
Mr. BurgessNay
Mr. StiversNay
Mr. CollinsNay
Mr. ByrneNo Vote
Mr. NewhouseNay
Mr. Sessions, ChairmanNay
Minority MemberVote
Ms. SlaughterYea
Mr. McGovernYea
Mr. HastingsYea
Mr. PolisNo Vote