<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><b class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif;" class="">Senate Finance Committee to hold Tai’s confirmation hearing next week<o:p class=""></o:p></span></b></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif;" class="">By Isabelle Icso, Inside US Trade</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;" class=""> </span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif;" class="">2/18/2021<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif;" class="">Katherine Tai, President Biden’s pick for U.S. Trade Representative, will testify before the Senate Finance Committee next Thursday, the panel said this week.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif;" class="">The hearing will take place on Feb. 25 at 10 AM.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif;" class="">“Katherine Tai has the experience she needs to succeed as USTR, and her record of getting wins for American workers demonstrates she knows how to champion the values that matter to U.S. families,” Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden (D-OR) said in a statement. “I intend to advance Ms. Tai’s nomination as quickly as possible to ensure the Biden administration isn’t left short-handed in the fight to help even the playing field for American workers.”<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif;" class="">Biden hopes to have Tai in place by next month, as</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif;" class=""> </span></span><em class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;" class="">Inside U.S. Trade</span></em><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif;" class=""> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif;" class=""><a href="https://insidetrade.com/node/170674" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193);" class=""><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 204); border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;" class="">reported</span></a></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif;" class=""> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif;" class="">earlier this week. If so, Tai’s confirmation hearing likely would have to be followed by a committee vote and confirmation by the full Senate that same week.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif;" class="">The Senate Finance Committee also is considering Xavier Becerra, Biden’s U.S. Health and Human Services nominee, and Adewale Adeyemo, the president’s pick for deputy Treasury secretary, next week. Adeyemo will testify on Feb. 23 and Becerra the following day, according to the panel’s website.</span></p><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">
Arthur Stamoulis<br class="">Citizens Trade Campaign<br class="">(202) 494-8826<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">
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