<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><i class="">TAA re-vote deadline to be extended until July 30th, assuming House approves the rule on Tuesday...</i></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">THE HILL<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18pt; background-color: white;" class=""><b class=""><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><a href="http://thehill.com/taxonomy/term/36/feed" style="color: purple;" class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 102); text-decoration: none;" class="">Floor Action feed</span></a><o:p class=""></o:p></span></b></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18pt; background-color: white;" class=""><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">June 15, 2015, 08:12 pm<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18pt; background-color: white;" class=""><b class=""><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">House punts on trade<o:p class=""></o:p></span></b></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 11.25pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18pt; background-color: white;"><b class=""><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">By <a href="http://thehill.com/author/cristina-marcos" style="color: purple;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102); text-decoration: none;" class="">Cristina Marcos</span></a> and <a href="http://thehill.com/author/scott-wong" style="color: purple;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102); text-decoration: none;" class="">Scott Wong</span></a><o:p class=""></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 11.25pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18pt; background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">House GOP leaders are punting on voting again on President Obama's trade agenda, possibly until the end of July.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 11.25pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18pt; background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">After Friday's failed vote to pass aid for workers displaced by trade deals, known as Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA), Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) set up a process allowing the House to conduct a do-over of the vote by Tuesday.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18pt; background-color: white;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">But Obama and GOP leadership aren't yet in a position where TAA is any more likely to pass. So the House Rules Committee on Monday night attached a provision to a "rule" governing parameters for debate on the intelligence authorization bill that extends the possibility for the chamber to vote on TAA again to July 30.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18pt; background-color: white;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 11.25pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18pt; background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">The House will consider the rule containing the provision to extend the possible trade re-vote on Tuesday afternoon.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 11.25pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18pt; background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">House Republicans are casting the extension as a means for buying time to move the trade package forward.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 11.25pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18pt; background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">“We remain committed to getting TPA done, and this will give the president more time to communicate the consequences of not moving forward with his party," Boehner spokesman Kevin Smith said.</span></p></body></html>