Rep. Levin Shows No Softening of Attacks on TPA, TPP
Congress should “withhold” Trade Promotion Authority until U.S. negotiators steer Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations toward a final pact that will more substantially benefit U.S. workers and global consumers, said House Ways and Means ranking member Sandy Levin, D-Mich., in another rebuke…
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of TPP on June 1 (here). The House is edging toward votes on TPA and other trade legislation, and Levin has repeatedly over recent months released criticisms of both TPP and the TPA bill moving through the legislative process (see 1505280065). The TPA bill, crafted by Ways and Means Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis., Senate Finance Chairman Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, and Finance ranking member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., “woefully” fails to put in place assurances for rules on currency, the environment, labor and market access in future free trade agreements, such as TPP, said Levin. Levin again championed the merits of his alternate TPA (see 1505220017). The number of House Democrats expected to vote in favor of TPA is now at roughly 20, say experts (see 1505310002).