Peter1469
05-13-2017, 04:03 AM
Bipartisan support for the new US trade representative (https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/trump-effect-on-full-display-in-the-senate-thursday-with-a-majority-embracing-a-trade-deal-opponent/2017/05/11/0d32f236-3673-11e7-b412-62beef8121f7_story.html?utm_term=.7a8865f99f8d)
While front page news is devoted to reach arounds and DNC talking points, we find some interesting news in trade policy- a bipartisan selection of the US trade dude.
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Fully 37 Democrats voted to confirm the new U.S. trade representative, abandoning their partisan posture and instead embracing President Trump’s pledge to renegotiate existing trade deals and to scuttle those in the works. Those Democrats were joined by 45 Republicans who voted for Robert E. Lighthizer, a rare bipartisan moment coming a day after Democrats demanded an independent criminal investigation of Trump’s 2016 campaign after he fired James B. Comey as FBI director.
The trade issue has been turned on its head, to a position where there is now a bipartisan majority in Congress opposing the global economic strategy that has driven U.S. trade policy for the past 35 years.
“In our party, I think there’s an intensity about this issue that maybe wasn’t there a few years ago,” said Sen. Robert P. Casey Jr. (D-Pa.).
Casey said that the 2016 campaign brought the trade issue to the fore unlike any presidential race in recent memory, and Trump’s sweep of the industrial Midwest sent a shock through the party that altered its view on how global deals should be considered.
While front page news is devoted to reach arounds and DNC talking points, we find some interesting news in trade policy- a bipartisan selection of the US trade dude.
Don't forget to tickle the balls while you ignore real news.
C
Fully 37 Democrats voted to confirm the new U.S. trade representative, abandoning their partisan posture and instead embracing President Trump’s pledge to renegotiate existing trade deals and to scuttle those in the works. Those Democrats were joined by 45 Republicans who voted for Robert E. Lighthizer, a rare bipartisan moment coming a day after Democrats demanded an independent criminal investigation of Trump’s 2016 campaign after he fired James B. Comey as FBI director.
The trade issue has been turned on its head, to a position where there is now a bipartisan majority in Congress opposing the global economic strategy that has driven U.S. trade policy for the past 35 years.
“In our party, I think there’s an intensity about this issue that maybe wasn’t there a few years ago,” said Sen. Robert P. Casey Jr. (D-Pa.).
Casey said that the 2016 campaign brought the trade issue to the fore unlike any presidential race in recent memory, and Trump’s sweep of the industrial Midwest sent a shock through the party that altered its view on how global deals should be considered.