Sherrod Brown: As Trade Talks Continue, Bipartisan Group of Senators to Unveil Bill to Stand Up For American Jobs By Addressing Currency Manipulation

Sens. Brown, Sessions, Schumer, Graham, and Stabenow to Introduce the Currency Exchange Rate Oversight Reform Act of 2015. Addressing Currency Manipulation Could Create Nearly Six Million Jobs by Leveling the Playing Field for American Manufacturers and Workers. [Reposted from Senator Sherrod Brown’s website  |  February 9, 2015] WASHINGTON, D.C. — As Congress prepares to review…

Ways and Means: Bipartisan Group Introduces Legislation to Crack Down on Currency Manipulation

WASHINGTON – Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) joined Reps. Tim Murphy (R-PA), Tim Ryan (D-OH) and Mo Brooks (R-AL) today in introducing legislation to hold currency manipulators accountable. The Currency Reform for Fair Trade Act takes aim at currency manipulators by enabling the Department of Commerce to impose countervailing duties to…

Media Matters: STUDY: TV News Shows Largely Ignore Historic Trade Negotiations

Trans-Pacific Partnership Barely Noticed By Weeknight News Over The Past 18 Months Weeknight television news programs have given little attention to the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a sweeping trade agreement between the United States, Canada, and 10 nations from the Asia-Pacific region. Although the nations involved in the negotiations create a huge amount of economic activity,…