[CTC] Wyden Pushes for Trade Deal Votes

[Arthur Stamoulis]

Politico Morning Trade

*WYDEN PUSHES FOR TRADE DEAL VOTES: *Senate Finance Committee ranking member
 Ron Wyden
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 (D-Ore.) is calling on the Trump administration to submit any trade deals
it negotiates to Congress for a vote — in line with the U.S. Constitution
and previous bipartisan practice.

“I want to reiterate my longstanding position, espoused by both Republicans
and Democrats under the last administration, that binding international
trade agreements must be approved by Congress,” Wyden said in a letter to
U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer
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 dated Wednesday and provided first to Morning Trade. “The process for
approving and implementing any such agreements must respect Congress’s
constitutional authority over trade and power to write U.S. law.”

Wyden joined with 20 other senators — both Republicans and Democrats — to
send a similar letter in December 2022 to then-President Joe Biden,
demanding that he submit his signature trade initiative, the Indo-Pacific
Economic Framework, to Congress for a vote.

This time, Wyden is the lone signature after Senate Finance Chair Mike Crapo
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 (R-Idaho) and several other Republicans — Chuck Grassley
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 (Iowa), Steve Daines
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 (Mont.) and Todd Young
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 (Ind.) — did not respond to requests for their participation, even though
they signed the December 2022 letter, said Wyden spokesperson Keith Chu.

Biden ultimately completed work on three fairly non-controversial pillars
of the IPEF agreement but did not submit any of those to Congress for
approval. However, Congress asserted its authority over trade in the summer
of 2023
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 by approving the first phase of a trade agreement that the Biden
administration negotiated with Taiwan.

At the time, Crapo said in a bipartisan statement with other congressional
trade leaders
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 that the Taiwan bill “proves that Congress can — and will — lead on trade,
and that it cannot be bypassed.” House Ways and Means Chair Jason Smith
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 (R-Mo.) also said in June 2023 that future trade agreements should “only
[be] established through robust Congressional consultation and a vote of
approval.”

Crapo’s and Smith’s offices did not respond Tuesday to a question about
whether they want Trump to submit trade deals to Congress for approval. The
White House and USTR also did not respond when asked if Trump intended to
submit any agreements to Congress for a vote.

Greer, in response to written questions during his confirmation process
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 earlier this year, refused to commit to submitting trade deals to Congress
for approval.
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