House GOP Freshmen Push Obama on TPA
Freshman Republican members of the House urged President Barack Obama to keep Trade Promotion Authority as an administration priority so Congress can pass a bill “early this year,” the group of 26 lawmakers said in a letter on March 6.…
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Americans voted in 45 total new Republican House members in the 2014 mid-term elections. The TPA supporters only managed to garner a slim majority of the freshman GOP caucus, while none of the 15 new House Democrats signed the letter. “There is great potential in the negotiations now underway for the Trans-Pacific Partnership, Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, and the Trade in Services Agreement, among other trade initiatives,” said the letter, led by Reps. Tom Emmer, Minn., and Mimi Walters, Calif.