House to vote on TAA today; House Ag changes hearing time
June 25, 2015 |10:16 AM
The long battle over trade legislation is expected to come to an end today as the House of Representatives votes on a bill that would renew trade adjustment assistance for workers whose jobs are displaced by trade.
The bill also reauthorizes the Africa Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) and other trade preference legislation. The House is expected to pass the bill even though TAA failed the first time.
A coalition of agriculture groups sent a letter to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, asking them to keep an amendment that is in both the House and Senate versions of AGOA to provide technical assistance.
President Barack Obama is expected to sign both the trade preferences bill and the bill granting him trade promotion authority.
The trade promotion authority bill was sent to President Barack Obama Wednesday after the Senate passed it.
Congress had been scheduled to leave Friday for a week-long July 4 recess, but activity in Congress has been curtailed for today because some members plan to travel to Charleston, S.C., for a funeral service for one of the victims in the racially motivated killings at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church.
Obama, First Lady Michelle Obama, Vice President Joe Biden and Dr. Jill Biden are also scheduled to attend the services.
The Senate Agriculture Committee is scheduled to hold a hearing today on resolving the World Trade Organization’s decision that the U.S. country-of-origin labeling program for beef and pork discriminates against Canadian and Mexican producers who want to bring their animals to the United States for slaughter.
The House Agriculture Nutrition Subcommittee and the House Ways and Means Human Resources Subcommittee will hold a hearing today on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program but the time has been changed to 9:30 a.m. The hearing will be held in Room 1100 of the Longworth House Office Building.
The bill also reauthorizes the Africa Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) and other trade preference legislation. The House is expected to pass the bill even though TAA failed the first time.
A coalition of agriculture groups sent a letter to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, asking them to keep an amendment that is in both the House and Senate versions of AGOA to provide technical assistance.
President Barack Obama is expected to sign both the trade preferences bill and the bill granting him trade promotion authority.
The trade promotion authority bill was sent to President Barack Obama Wednesday after the Senate passed it.
Congress had been scheduled to leave Friday for a week-long July 4 recess, but activity in Congress has been curtailed for today because some members plan to travel to Charleston, S.C., for a funeral service for one of the victims in the racially motivated killings at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church.
Obama, First Lady Michelle Obama, Vice President Joe Biden and Dr. Jill Biden are also scheduled to attend the services.
The Senate Agriculture Committee is scheduled to hold a hearing today on resolving the World Trade Organization’s decision that the U.S. country-of-origin labeling program for beef and pork discriminates against Canadian and Mexican producers who want to bring their animals to the United States for slaughter.
The House Agriculture Nutrition Subcommittee and the House Ways and Means Human Resources Subcommittee will hold a hearing today on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program but the time has been changed to 9:30 a.m. The hearing will be held in Room 1100 of the Longworth House Office Building.
