Tag: Trade

House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis., said in a letter to Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, that he plans to include immigration language in one of the four trade provisions scheduled for a Friday vote. (AP Photo)

GOP adds ban on immigration changes in trade deals

Susan Ferrechio · June 10, 2015 6:44 pm

House sets Friday vote on ‘fast track’ trade powers for Obama

House sets Friday vote on ‘fast track’ trade powers for Obama

Susan Ferrechio · June 10, 2015 3:00 pm

A shopper browses the bread aisle at a Fresh & Easy grocery as Tesco PLC, the UK's biggest retailer, officially enters the U.S. market, opening its first six stores in southern California on November 8, 2007 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by David McNew/Getty Images)

Small businesses need trade priorities and accountability from Washington

Rep. Steve Chabot · June 9, 2015 9:00 pm

Senate banking chairman on Ex-Im Bank: Without reform, ‘we ought to let it die’

Joseph Lawler · June 9, 2015 7:23 pm

"It's literally one-by-one, district-by-district, trying to close up the remaining undecided votes," Business Roundtable President John Engler said. "And there's still some there. But we expect to succeed." (AP Photo)Â

Business lobby: Down to one-on-one with lawmakers on trade bill

Joseph Lawler · June 8, 2015 7:09 pm

Cargo cranes unload ships at a port. (Photo by Robert Giroux/Getty Images)

Pro-trade Dems say Pacific pact is a chance at NAFTA ‘do-over’

Nicole Duran · June 8, 2015 4:01 am

The phalanx of national flag receives inspection in a parade in Beijing of the celebrations for the 60th anniversary of the founding of China on Oct. 1, 2009. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Huang Jingwen)

Rethinking the Asian Century

Derek Scissors, Nicholas Eberstadt, Sadanand Dhume, alex-coblin, Dan Blumenthal · June 8, 2015 4:01 am

Former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum speaks during the 2015 Southern Republican Leadership Conference May 21, 2015 in Oklahoma City. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Santorum says trade deal will hurt Americans

Sean Higgins · June 7, 2015 5:29 pm

Republican presidential candidate Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., speaks at a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, June 2, 2015. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Rand Paul demands Obama release text of trade deal

Barbara Boland · June 7, 2015 2:29 pm

Police stand beside demonstrators during a protest march in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, southern Germany, Saturday, June 6, 2015 against the G-7 summit in nearby Schloss Elmau hotel on June 7/8. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

National Security

Thousands protest trade deal in Germany: ‘G7 go to hell’

Sean Higgins · June 6, 2015 11:05 pm

Rep. Pat Tiberi, R-Ohio, questions ousted IRS Chief Steve Miller and J. Russell George, Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration, as they testify during a hearing at the House Ways and Means Committee on the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) practice of targeting applicants for tax-exempt status based on political leanings on Capitol Hill, in Washington, Friday, May 17, 2013. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

GOP argues Obama-backed trade bill will counter Obama on trade

Sean Higgins · June 6, 2015 3:55 pm

Lifting trade embargoes and re-establishing diplomatic relations will only tighten the Castro regime's grip on the Cuban people. (AP Photo)Â

Will Cuba see political change?

Vincent Amoroso · June 5, 2015 9:00 am