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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Wed Mar 3, 2021, 01:21 PM Mar 2021

Senate Finance panel OKs Tai as top U.S. trade negotiator

Source: AP

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate Finance Committee easily approved President Joe Biden's pick to be America's top trade negotiator.

The panel on Wednesday confirmed Katherine Tai to be U.S. trade representative on a voice vote. Her nomination, which has received strong bipartisan support, will now go to the full Senate for approval.

Tai has promised to make sure that U.S. trade policy benefits America's workers, not just corporations, and to work more closely with U.S. allies to counter an increasingly assertive China.

Fluent in Mandarin, Tai spent several years as the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative's head of China enforcement.



Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/senate-finance-panel-oks-tai-as-top-us-trade-negotiator/ar-BB1ecIAa?li=BBnb7Kz

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Senate Finance panel OKs Tai as top U.S. trade negotiator (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Mar 2021 OP
That makes 14 confirmations, 9 more to go. ancianita Mar 2021 #1
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