TRADE ACT

Bills and resolutions

Business and industry: establish congressional review of Presidential decisions on ITC recommendations for relief for businesses jeopardized by a surge of Chinese imports (see H.R. 471), H194 [13JA]

Dept. of Labor: certify certain groups of workers to apply for trade adjustment assistance if their firm sells articles which are related to articles that were previously the basis for such certification (see H.R. 494), H323 [14JA]

———require certain Federal job training and career education programs give priority to programs that provide a national industry-recognized and portable credential (see H.R. 4072), H13001 [16NO]

Foreign trade: include a Public Health Advisory Committee on Trade in the trade advisory committee system and require public health organizations to be included in relevant sectoral or functional advisory committees (see H.R. 2293), H5307 [6MY]

———include Public Health Advisory Committee on Trade in trade advisory committee system and require public health organizations be included in relevant sectoral or functional advisory committees (see S. 1644), S8994 [6AU]

———provide improved duty-free treatment for certain articles from certain least-developed countries (see H.R. 4101), H13265 [18NO]

Office of the U.S. Trade Representative: establish Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for Small Business (see S. 2861), S12804 [9DE]

Descriptions

American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (H.R. 1): Baucus-Grassley Amendment on Trade Adjustment Assistance Program, S2052-S2063 [10FE]

Letters

American Recovery and Reinvestment Act: Alan Reuther, UAW, S2209 [12FE]

Trade Adjustment Assistance Program improvement and extension: Christopher Chafe, Change To Win (organization), S2208 [12FE]

———several companies and associations, S2208 [12FE]

Remarks in Senate

Dept. of Labor: improve and extend Trade Adjustment Assistance program, S1669, S1670 [5FE], S2050, S2051 [10FE], S2208 [12FE], S2312 [13FE]

Office of the U.S. Trade Representative: establish Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for Small Business (S. 2861), S12810 [9DE]

Texts of

S. 2861, Small Business Trade Representation Act, S12811 [9DE]