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Congress
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March 12, 2009
March 12, 2009
The Senate Finance Committee today (March 12) approved former Dallas mayor Ron Kirk to be United States Trade Representative by a voice vote. Kirk's nomination will now head to the full Senate for consideration.
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March 11, 2009
March 11, 2009
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March 11, 2009
March 11, 2009
Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) this week said the Obama administration "is interested in moving forward" with a bill he introduced last week that would create Reconstruction Opportunity Zones (ROZs) in Afghanistan and Pakistan. The bill would allow non-sensitive exports from the zones to enter the U.S. duty-free.
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March 11, 2009
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March 11, 2009
March 11, 2009
Rep. Sander Levin (D-MI), chairman of the House Ways and Means trade subcommittee, said today (March 11) that all three pending free trade agreements, including the Panama FTA that is widely seen as the least controversial, involve problems that need to be resolved before Congress can approve them.
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March 10, 2009
March 10, 2009
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March 10, 2009
Sen. Jim Bunning (R-KY) withdrew his amendment today that would have required the secretary of the Senate to compile a list of all foreign firms investing in Iran's energy sector.
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March 09, 2009
March 09, 2009
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March 09, 2009
March 09, 2009
U.S. Trade Representative nominee Ron Kirk told his Senate Finance Committee confirmation hearing today (March 9) that the U.S.-South Korea free trade agreement is unacceptable as negotiated to the Obama administration and that the administration is prepared to walk away from the deal if it cannot be improved.
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March 09, 2009
March 09, 2009
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March 09, 2009
March 09, 2009
Ways and Means Committee staff are still mulling the way forward for a Miscellaneous Tariff Bill (MTB) in the House and, in particular, how tariff suspension bills introduced under new transparency rules during the 110th Congress could be most expeditiously combined into a bill that could be considered this year. This process raises a handful of technical issues that have yet to be finally resolved, sources said today (March 9).