{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://miller.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-miller-joins-ways-and-means-trade-subcommittee-reforming-gsp", "Rep. Miller Joins Ways and Means Trade Subcommittee on Reforming the GSP", "2023-09-21", "2023", "2023-09", "Republican", "House", "WV", "Carol D. Miller", "M001205", "miller.house.gov", "miller", "https://miller.house.gov/media/press-releases", "scraper", "WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 Yesterday, Congresswoman Carol Miller (R-WV) joined the Ways and Means Trade Subcommittee hearing on reforming the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) to safeguard U.S. supply chains and combat China\u2019s influence on the global stage. Congresswoman Miller questioned Ed Gresser, the Vice President and Director for Trade and Global Markets at Progressive Policy Institute, on the GSP program in the United States.\n\nClick here to watch.\n\nCongresswoman Miller on the importance of the GSP program to the United States and international trade:\n\nGSP is one of the most necessary trade programs that the United States has developed, and it is essential for providing fairly priced imports for American producers and consumers, as well as helping developing countries grow their economies to one day stand on their own. The Biden Administration\u2019s lack of focus on trade has severely weakened our standing amongst once key trading partners, therefore cracking the door open for the Chinese Communist Party to take our place and exert their dangerous ideology.\n\nIt is essential that we ensure the GSP program is working properly to accomplish our goals and not undermine American producers of certain products. We must be careful to not overburden the program with more government red tape. Businesses just want certainty, and we must work to ensure as much of it as possible, so they [companies] can make safe investments and can trust their government not to pull the rug out from under them.\n\nUnnecessary oversight and continued uncertainty will have the unfortunate consequence of raising prices for American consumers.\n\nCongresswoman Miller questioned Mr. Gresser on the impact of GSP on workers in developing countries:\n\n\u201cHaving worked under both the Trump and Obama Administrations, I am very interested in hearing your insights on the impact of GSP on the lives of workers in developing countries and the need for certainty when companies are making investment decisions,\u201d asked Congresswoman Miller.\n\n\"The impact somewhat differs in every country but it\u2019s generally quite positive. Program like GSP encourages some investment and some production in smaller and poorer countries. To the extent it does that, it draws workers out of informal sector and rural work into more jobs that are more likely to be wage paying, more likely to be covered by social security, limited hours, and workplace health and safety laws.\n\nIt does give you a lot of opportunities both to create, in general, a better employment environment and to solve really serious and difficult questions. I\u2019d also say finally that the eligibility criteria are important and it\u2019s important to enforce them, but they\u2019re not an alloyed good,\" said Mr. Gresser.\n\nCongresswoman Miller continued questioning Mr. Gresser on the impact reporting requirements would have on the GSP program:\n\n\u201cOne of the great effects of GSP is the impact on the lives of the people that are employed in the developing countries, often women. I\u2019ve seen firsthand the impact of these investments in countries that can have workers who are women have fewer options. I\u2019d like to submit for the record some data that I\u2019ve seen on products like sweaters that are overwhelmingly produced in China, that should be included in GSP. Women tend to make these products and I\u2019m very supportive, of pro women GSP.Can you describe how more extensive reporting requirements could make the GSP program less effective?\u201d asked Congresswoman Miller.\n\nIt is important that Administration\u2019s provide a public record of their decisions and rationales. The number of people who work on GSP full time is quite small. The more time they\u2019re spending on product eligibility petitions and enforcement and on explaining the benefits to countries, the more the program is going to succeed. The more time they\u2019re spending on writing reports, takes a bit of your time away from the day to day work that they need to be doing,\u201d said Mr. Gresser.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-08T00:37:48Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://miller.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-miller-joins-ways-and-means-trade-subcommittee-reforming-gsp"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.8562486618757248, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}