In Senate Hearing, Wyden Says U.S. “Laser-Focused” On Out-Competing China
Katherine Tai fields questions on tariff removals, exemptions, and the revival of TPP.
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CPA Praises Senate Committee Passage of Online Country-of-Origin-Labeling
WASHINGTON — The Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA) today applauded the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation for passing with overwhelming bipartisan support Senator Tammy Baldwin’s (D-WI) COOL Online Act, which was added as an amendment to the Endless Frontier Act (S. 1260). The bipartisan COOL Online Act would mandate that country-of-origin…
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Opinion | Will Biden’s Clean Power Grid Actually Be Made in America?
via Morning Consult President Joe Biden’s address to Congress made an ambitious case for building America’s clean energy future. Not only did the president pledge to create “millions of good-paying jobs,” but he aimed for all of his proposed advances in electric vehicles and renewable energy to be “made in America.” Helpfully, Biden even acknowledged the complexity…
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CPA Applauds NYSE for Following the Law and Delisting Chinese Telecoms
WASHINGTON — The Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA) today welcomed the announcement by the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) that it would follow the law and delist three Chinese telecom carriers: China Mobile Ltd., China Unicom Ltd., and China Telecom Corp. The move stems from Executive Order 13959 signed by former President Donald Trump,…
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Uyghur Testimony To Congress “I Saw Girls Lose Their Sanity.”
Two Uyghurs from Xinjiang tell the House Foreign Affairs Committee what’s going on inside China. Republicans and Democrats debate Olympic ban, corporate responsibility.
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American Job Quality Index Stalls, But Wages Manage To Rise Nearly 1%
The Job Quality Index shows that less lower-wage workers returned to work in April, due in part to generous unemployment benefits, now extended to September. Higher paying jobs, therefore, trumped lower-paying ones last month.
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America’s EV Supply Chain In Doubt
China set up to be America’s Green OPEC. Experts warn The Hill that the supply chain to make EV batteries is out of our hands.
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CPA Letter to U.S. Representative Kevin Brady on the Environmental Goods Agreement Harming U.S. Manufacturing
CPA sent the following letter to U.S. Representative Kevin Brady (R-TX) regarding his letter, signed by House Ways and Means Committee Republicans, urging U.S. Trade Representative Ambassador Katherine Tai to resume U.S. negotiations to complete an Environmental Goods Agreement (EGA). The EGA strategy would harm U.S. manufacturing and pursuing tariff reduction historically ends in the loss…
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House Hearing On ‘Clean Future Act’: Outsourcing Pollution, And The Risk Of Losing The EV Market
The House Committee on Energy and Commerce wants more battery-powered cars on the road. But what does that mean for the traditional American auto worker? Both parties are worried.
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CPA response to Wyden-Brown-Warner International Taxation Overhaul Framework
On April 23, 2021, the Coalition for a Prosperous America responded to the request for comments by the staff of the Senate Finance Committee regarding a tax framework proposal made by Senator Wyden, Senator Brown, and Senator Warner. April 23, 2021 The Honorable Ron Wyden Chairman United States Senate Committee on Finance 219 Dirksen Senate…
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