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Trade negotiators are meeting right now in Atlanta to continue work on the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement, a sweeping new trade deal that would cover a dozen countries that represent 40 percent of the world's GDP. One of the many sticking points relates to automobile manufacturing—specifically a complicated numbers-based arrangement known as the "Rules of Origin," which entangled the last round of TPP negotiations in late July.

The Republican majority in Congress has said that the inability to govern is following the same failed strategy time and again. Yet, once again House Republicans are putting the full faith and credit of the United States at risk. Their repeated behavior is reckless and irresponsible, and has had real consequences.