Ways and Means Republican Projects TPP Vote To Slip Past December
The Trans-Pacific Partnership won’t pass Congress this year, and the deal must be reworked, as it does not currently have enough support to pass, House Ways and Means Trade Subcommittee member Devin Nunes, R-Calif., said during an event hosted by…
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the Council on Foreign Relations on June 9 (here). “We’re going to have to, as a Congress, work with whoever the next president is to make sure that this TPP deal ultimately gets done, but that it’s a better deal for the American people at the same time,” he said. The Obama administration “dragged their feet,” but is “finally” engaging to move TPP forward, which is necessary to “write the rules of trade” in lieu of “bad regimes” writing them, Nunes said.