In the Media: Many Reasons to Renew Obama Fast-Track Authority on Trade

In the Media: Many Reasons to Renew Obama Fast-Track Authority on Trade

11 June 2015 1:25PM

The Senate last month passed President Barack Obama’s Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) package, which gives the president the right to negotiate trade agreements with foreign countries. The bill now awaits its fate in the House of Representatives.

In an op-ed for The News & Observer, Professor Michelle Connolly, former chief economist of the Federal Communications Commission, says the desire by some House members to introduce binding currency rules is “misguided.”

 

Read the full piece on The News & Observer.