Ways and Means to Host Cabinet Members at Trade Hearing, Markup Planned for April 23
The House Ways and Means Committee will hear testimony from Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and Treasury Secretary Jack Lew during the upcoming trade hearing in the afternoon of April 22, the committee said (here). The Senate…
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Finance Committee held two hearings on April 16 with only government witnesses (see 1504170024). U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman is notably missing from the witness panel at the House hearing. He is currently in Vietnam, a USTR spokesman said. USTR didn't announce a stop-over in Vietnam on Froman's way back to the U.S. from Japan (see 1504200001). The committee will then proceed to a markup the next day on the four trade bills to emerge from months of Capitol Hill negotiations (here).