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Since senior House Republicans and many leading senators oppose the trade-rules amendment, dropping the amendment, or at least watering it down, is a possibility, though it enjoys Mr Daschle's support.Yet even if that snare is avoided, fast-track will not be won.
I will trade the second amendment for the fourth amendment.
First, I will secure fast-track authority -- the ability to pass or reject trade agreements without amendment.
He was a founding member of Lawyers for the Creative Arts and in the 1980s served as the chairman of the Media Coalition, a First Amendment trade organization representing booksellers, magazine publishers, the Motion Picture Association and other groups.
Trojan, the EU official, said the time frame for breaking the impasse was shrinking, given the expiration next July of fast-track authority that requires the U.S. Congress to accept or reject any trade agreement without amendment.
introduced an amendment into trade deal legislation that bars Malaysia from being a part of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a trade deal being negotiated with 11 Pacific countries, because of its tier 3 designation.
Trade critics dropped amendments that would have given Congress a veto over agreements that might endanger American antidumping rules.
Americans expect their government to do the utmost to protect our country, but that cannot mean trading our Fourth Amendment right to privacy for the promise of security.
The president may follow this nomination in the coming months by seeking "trade-promotion authority" from Congress, which would guarantee trade deals an amendment-free, up-or-down vote.
