WASHINGTON – Congressman Jason Smith (MO-08) released the following statement after being selected to serve as the Chairman of the House Committee on Ways and Means for the 118th Congress: “It is deeply humbling and an honor to be selected by my colleagues to serve as the next Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee. With our new House ...
After U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai announced that the United States is taking enforcement action against Mexico for undermining American companies and U.S.-produced energy in favor of Mexico’s state-owned electrical utility, the Comisión Federal de Electricidad (CFE), and state-owned oil and gas company, Petróleos Mexicanos (PEMEX), Ways and Means Republican Leader Rep. ...
To view as a PDF, click here. Broad-based tax incentives will better address our global competitiveness The Chinese Communist Party’s “Made in China 2025” plan seeks global dominance in 10 separate industries, which reach far beyond ...
Top Republican on the Ways and Means Trade Subcommittee Rep. Adrian Smith (R-NE) released the following statement after the World Trade Organization’s Twelfth Ministerial Conference (MC12). “To say I am disappointed the Biden ...
WASHINGTON, D.C.-- U.S. House Ways and Means Republican Leader Rep. Kevin Brady (R-TX) and U.S. Sen. Mike Crapo (R-ID), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Finance Committee, issued a statement condemning the Biden Administration’s decision to capitulate to the demands of some of the United States’ most disruptive trading partners at this ...
Americans have reason to be skeptical of how Democrats are currently approaching helping America confront the growing economic threat from Communist China, argues Health Subcommittee Republican Leader (and former ...
On House Democrats’ partisan, so-called “competitiveness bill,” top Republican on the House Ways and Means Committee Rep. Kevin Brady (R-TX) released the following statement: “This partisan bill does nothing to hold China accountable for its predatory trade practices, enforce President Trump’s historic agreement to stop China’s cheating on trade, ...
Last week, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI), along with Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-MT) and Ranking Member Orrin Hatch (R-UT), introduced the Bipartisan Congressional Trade Priorities Act of 2014 to renew trade promotion authority (TPA). Trade issues are generally viewed as economic ...
Today, a bipartisan group of Governors sent a letter to President Obama and House and Senate Leaders expressing their support for permanent normal trade relations (PNTR) with Russia. Tomorrow, the Ways and Means Committee will markup legislation to establish PNTR with Russia. In the letter, the Governors stated: “From our perspective as Governors, we see the potential for each ...
Seventy-three House Republican freshmen wrote to President Obama expressing their commitment to work with him to grant Russia permanent normal trade relations so that the United States can expand export opportunities and job growth. Next month, Russia will join the World Trade Organization ...