I rise in opposition to the Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act. or the Customs bill. This legislation has historically been a bipartisan bill. but the majority has politicized the Customs legislation by adding several riders that would be harmful to our trade policy. The bill undermines our ability to address several of the most critical global issues that we face: climate change. human trafficking. and immigration. And it includes no meaningful method for dealing with one of the biggest causes of job loss and wage suppression in the United States: currency manipulation. which has cost our Nation over 5 million jobs. Ironically. world leaders are concluding negotiations today in Paris at the largest climate summit in history.
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