House votes to begin talks with Senate on trade bill. (Marketplace).(trade promotion authority for the president)(Brief Article)

Chemical Market Reporter, July, 2002 by Hess, Glenn

MANUFACTURERS expressed relief last week after the House of Representatives, by a one-vote margin, approved a motion to begin talks with the Senate on a bill to give President George W. Bush authority to negotiate new trade agreements. "This was the toughest hurdle yet for passage of trade promotion authority (TPA)," said Mike Baroody, executive vice president of the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM).

He says, "We're not yet ready to declare victory, but now that we can move to conference, we can begin the substantive work of crafting a compromise final bill to send to the President's desk that he can sign." Overcoming a procedural hurdle that threatened to derail the legislation, House Republicans pushed through the measure on a...

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