House Passes Measure to Extend Window for Another TAA Vote
The House passed a measure on June 16 to give Republican leadership six more weeks to consider Trade Adjustment Assistance. The Rules Committee approved that extension, which elapses on July 30, the night before as part of debate and voting…
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rules for unrelated intelligence authorization legislation (see 1506160023). While only three Democrats supported the rules on the House floor, the legislation passed with 236 votes in total. Without the extension, Republican leadership's window to vote again on TAA would have expired on June 16 at the end of the legislative day. House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, motioned to reconsider TAA following the June 12 defeat of that legislation, but that only provided two legislative days to take the vote up again.