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Finance Committee Chair Announces FTA Hearing: TPP Not Mentioned

February 29, 2016


Senate Finance Committee Chairman, Orrin Hatch announced that a hearing would be held on March 2, 2016 to examine the implementation of existing free trade agreements. The Chairman states that the hearing will give members the “opportunity to examine the degree to which our trade agreement partners have met their existing obligations and look at ways to improve the implementation of future free trade agreements considered under [TPA].”

The following witnesses will testify: Jim Mulhern, president and CEO of the National Milk Producers Federation; Sean P. Murphy, vice president and counsel of international government affairs at Qualcomm Incorporated; Glen Prickett, chief external affairs officer at the Nature Conservancy; and Steven Tepp, president and founder of Sentinel Worldwide.