Trade Committee Staff Not Yet Drafting TPP Implementing Bill, USTR Pushes Ahead

With roughly four weeks remaining in the legislative session before the November elections, congressional trade committee staff has not yet begun working with the Obama administration on an implementing bill for the Trans-Pacific Partnership, and is still focused on implementation issues. But the administration is pushing ahead with its internal drafting of an implementing bill and has sought some input from members of Congress and stakeholders, according to informed sources. Without a joint drafting effort, some observers to say the...