Administration Working With Congressional Committees on TPP Implementation Bill
The Obama administration is working with the House Ways and Means and Senate Finance committees to draft Trans-Pacific Partnership implementation legislation, for a potential vote during the upcoming “lame-duck” session of Congress in November and December, U.S. Trade Representative Michael…
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Froman said during a June 20 panel (here). “I think [Majority] Leader [Mitch] McConnell of the Senate has made clear publicly that he doesn’t want to see a vote before the election,” Froman said. “But to even do this in the lame duck, you want to do as much of the preparatory work as possible under trade promotion authority beforehand, and that’s what we’re working on now.” Despite the recently tepid overall political support for TPP and free trade, Froman said there’s “a lot of desire to get it done,” pointing both to a “whole-of-Cabinet” effort to push its merits, as well as to the upcoming “lame-duck” session as a “window of opportunity” for U.S. ratification of the deal. The congressional committees and Office of the U.S. Trade Representative did not comment.