<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=""><i class="">"<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">meaning a confirmation vote on Lighthizer likely won’t occur until May 15"</span><br class=""></i><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div style="border-style: none none solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-width: 1pt; padding: 0in 0in 3pt; background-color: white;" class=""><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 7.5pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 16.5pt; border: none; padding: 0in;"><b class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(153, 153, 153); text-transform: uppercase;" class="">DAILY NEWS<o:p class=""></o:p></span></b></p></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 15pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 16.5pt; background-color: white;"><b class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(255, 51, 0);" class="">INSIDE US TRADE<o:p class=""></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 15pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 16.5pt; background-color: white;"><b class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(255, 51, 0);" class="">McCain, citing ‘unanswered questions,’ objecting to unanimous consent request on Lighthizer<o:p class=""></o:p></span></b></p><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 16.5pt; background-color: white;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">May 09, 2017<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 16.5pt; background-color: white;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) is objecting to a unanimous consent request to proceed to the nomination of U.S. Trade Representative nominee Robert Lighthizer, McCain told<i class=""> Inside U.S. Trade</i>.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 16.5pt; background-color: white;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""> </span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 16.5pt; background-color: white;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">“I have questions that are outstanding and I'd like to have answers to those questions. That's the way the senate works,” McCain said on May 9. Asked if he is objecting to a UC request, McCain said “until I get the answers, of course.”<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 16.5pt; background-color: white;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""> </span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 16.5pt; background-color: white;" class=""><i class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">Inside U.S. Trade</span></i><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""> reported last week that <a href="https://insidetrade.com/node/158595" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114);" class=""><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 204);" class="">at least one Republican lawmaker was objecting to the UC request</span></a> by Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY). Without it, McConnell would have to file two cloture motions: One to proceed to Lighthizer’s nomination and one to end debate. Sources said McConnell had expressed unwillingness to spend that much floor time on the USTR nomination, citing other legislative priorities.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 16.5pt; background-color: white;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""> </span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 16.5pt; background-color: white;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">McCain said his opposition to moving on Lighthizer’s nomination has nothing to do with <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/06/opinion/06lighthizer.html" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114);" class=""><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 204);" class="">a 2008 op-ed penned by Lighthizer</span></a> about then-presidential candidate John McCain, in which the now-USTR nominee claimed “Mr. McCain may be a conservative. But his unbridled free-trade policies don’t help make that case.”<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 16.5pt; background-color: white;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""> </span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 16.5pt; background-color: white;" class=""><b class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">Instead, McCain said on May 9, his outstanding questions have “a lot to do with whether a trade representative is for free trade or not or whether they want to be further isolationist and destroy our economy.”<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: 16.5pt; background-color: white;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""> </span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 16.5pt; background-color: white;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">McCain declined to elaborate on specific questions, saying “that's between me and him,” but said he “hopes” to get the answers soon. “It's up to him,” he added. Until then, McCain said, the nomination is not moving forward.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 16.5pt; background-color: white;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""> </span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 16.5pt; background-color: white;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">McCain also stressed that he is “not saying I'm opposing him; I want answers to the questions -- that's what senators do, that's the right of a senator, it's normal, it's what we do every day.”<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 16.5pt; background-color: white;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""> </span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 16.5pt; background-color: white;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">Sources said McConnell is likely to file the first cloture motion on Tuesday night or on Wednesday, meaning a confirmation vote on Lighthizer likely won’t occur until May 15. It is uncertain whether Lighthizer will then attend the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation trade ministers meeting in Hanoi on May 20-21, but some speculate the decision will be made this week.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 16.5pt; background-color: white;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""> </span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 16.5pt; background-color: white;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">Asked about NAFTA and whether he would be in favor of renegotiating the 23-year-old trade deal, McCain said “I think it should be looked at.”<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 16.5pt; background-color: white;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 16.5pt; background-color: white;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">“I think after so many years we should look at it, but NAFTA has been a huge success not a failure,” he added.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 16.5pt; background-color: white;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""> </span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 16.5pt; background-color: white;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">-- <i class="">Jenny Leonard</i> (<a href="mailto:jleonard@iwpnews.com" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114);" class=""><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 204);" class="">jleonard@iwpnews.com</span></a>)<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""> </span></div></div></body></html>