Subject: Congressman Heck’s Job-Killing Agenda on Display as Nevada AFL-CIO Endorses Cortez Masto for Senate
From: Sarah Zukowski <[email-masked]>
To: Sarah Zukowski <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 3 May 2016 11:10:54 -0700

​*For Immediate Release*

May 3, 2016

Contact: Sarah Zukowski, [email-masked]

*Congressman Heck’s Job-Killing Agenda on Display as Nevada AFL-CIO
Endorses Cortez Masto for Senate*

*Labor organization representing over 200,000 Nevadans endorses Catherine
Cortez Masto for U.S. Senate because of her record as bipartisan problem
solver*

Las Vegas, NV – Today, the Nevada State American Federation of Labor and
Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), which represents over
200,000 members of 120 unions in the state, announced it is supporting
former Nevada Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto to be the state’s
next U.S. Senator over her Republican opponents, Congressman Heck and
Sharron Angle.

Nevada’s AFL-CIO recognized that Cortez Masto will work with Democrats and
Republicans across the aisle to increase the minimum wage, ensure equal pay
for equal work, and stop anti-union trade deals that ship jobs overseas,
unlike her opponents Congressman Heck and Sharron Angle who will always
side with Washington Republicans over Nevada’s hardworking families.

“*Congressman Heck and Sharron Angle have made clear they will side with
their Republican Party bosses in Washington even if it means shipping
American jobs overseas*,” said Sarah Zukowski, spokesperson for the Nevada
State Democratic Party. “*Just last year, Congressman Heck voted to fast
track a job-killing trade deal that was negotiated behind closed doors and
voted against measures supporting the American workers who lose their jobs
because of** trade deals**. It is no surprise that an organization
representing over 200,000 Nevada workers supports a candidate like
Catherine Cortez Masto, who will actually solve problems for them in
Washington, not ship their jobs overseas*.”

*Background:*

*Heck Voted To Give The Federal Government Fast Track Authority To
Negotiate Trade Deals.* “The House advanced a measure that would give
President Barack Obama ‘fast track’ authority to negotiate trade deals, a
week after a similar effort was derailed by Democrats aligned with
organized labor. […] Reps. Mark Amodei, Cresent Hardy and Joe Heck, all
R-Nev., voted for it. Rep. Dina Titus, D-Nev., voted against it.” [CQ,
6/18/15 <http://www.cq.com/doc/floorvote-250370000?6>; H.Res. 321, Vote 374,
6/18/15 <http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2015/roll374.xml>; Las Vegas
Review-Journal, 6/20/15
<http://www.reviewjournal.com/politics/washington-digest-senate-approves-defense-bill>
]

*Heck Voted Against Giving Trade Adjustment Assistance To U.S. Workers
Harmed By Trade Agreements. *In June 2015, Heck voted against: “Ryan,
R-Wis., motion to concur in the Senate amendment to the House amendment to
the Senate amendment to the bill that would extend Trade Adjustment
Assistance (TAA) programs that help U.S. workers harmed by trade agreements
until 2021 and the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) through FY
2025. The bill would also extend the HOPE and HELP programs for products
from Haiti, retroactively renew and extend, through 2017, the Generalized
System of Preferences (GSP), strengthen U.S. anti-dumping law, and expand
opportunities for U.S. businesses in recreational performance footwear and
outerwear.” The motion agreed to by a vote of 286-138. [CQ, 6/25/15
<http://www.cq.com/vote/2015/h/388>; H.R. 1295, Vote 388, 6/25/15
<http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2015/roll388.xml>]

*Heck Voted Against Trade Adjustment Assistance For Workers Laid Off
Because Of Trade Deals. *In June 2015, Heck voted against: “Division II of
the Ryan, R-Wis., motion to concur in the Senate amendment to the bill that
would provide Trade Promotion Authority for trade agreements negotiated by
the administration, under which they would be considered by Congress under
expedited procedures without amendment, and would extend Trade Adjustment
Assistance programs to help displaced U.S. workers. The portion of the
Senate amendment covered by the division would reauthorize, through June
30, 2021, trade adjustment assistance programs and alternative trade
adjustment assistance for workers laid off because of the impact of foreign
competition. Offsets would include an extension of certain customs fees and
prevention of certain taxpayers with high levels of foreign income from
receiving the refundable portion of the child tax credit.” The motion was
rejected 126-302. [CQ, 6/12/15 <http://www.cq.com/doc/floorvote-250149000?2>;
H.R.1314, Vote 361, 6/12/15 <http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2015/roll361.xml>]

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