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TRADE ISSUE LACK CONGRESS VOICES.(Trade promotion authority)(Government Activity)(International Pages)(Brief Article)
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Footwear News
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July 30, 2001
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WASHINGTON -- House Republican leadership and the White House are angling for a House vote on trade-promotion authority before Congress takes its August break, but the measure -- a key part of President Bush's trade agenda -- doesn't yet have enough voices for passage.
Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert (R., Ill.) said he and other GOP leaders "are working on it" and seemed unwavering in his attempt to push the bill to a vote.
"Trade promotion authority is so important," he said, acknowledging the difficulty in reissuing the authority, which expired in 1993 during former President Clinton's first term.
Granting trade promotion authority could mean Congress ...