Blumenauer Says Republican GSP Bill Doesn't Change His Assessment of Getting Vote Done
House Ways and Means Trade Subcommittee Chairman Rep. Earl Blumenauer, D-Ore., who introduced a bill a week ago to renew the Generalized System of Preferences benefits program and the Miscellaneous Tariff Bill (see 2106170040), said the introduction of a competing bill by the ranking Republicans on the subcommittee and full committee does not alter his assessment of how easy or difficult it will be to move the bills through the House. The Republican bill is largely a copy of the Senate GSP/MTB bill, though there are 60 fewer products in both House MTB lists.
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"We know where they are," Blumenauer said during a brief interview at the Capitol on June 25. "I don't know that it changes the equation much. I'd like to see action."