Senate Majority Leader Reid Voices TPA Opposition
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., strenuously opposes bringing the Bipartisan Congressional Trade Priorities Act, the 2014 iteration of Trade Promotion Authority, to the Senate floor, according to comments made on Jan. 29 and reported by several publications. "Everyone would…
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be well advised to not push this right now,” Reid said, The Hill reported (here). “Everyone knows how I feel about this.” Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., was the sole sponsor to S-1900, the Bipartisan Congressional Trade Priorities Act introduced in the Senate. Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., is widely expected to replace Baucus as Finance Committee chairman, should Baucus be confirmed as ambassador to China (see 14012902). As majority leader, Reid controls the Senate floor schedule.