In a paper issued in January 2015, and again in a major speech in May, Sander Levin, the ranking Democrat on the House Ways and Means Committee, applied these principles to all of the outstanding issues regarding the TPP.
众议院筹款委员会（House Ways and Means Committee）民主党领袖桑德·莱文（Sander Levin）在2015年发表文章指出，接着又在5月的重要讲话重申，这些原则适用于所有与TPP有关的待解决问题。