TPP Backers See Window For Congressional Approval In 2016 Despite Election
With the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) talks facing a new delay, U.S. officials, business representatives and other supporters are now setting their sights on 2016 for Congress to consider a completed agreement and downplaying the notion that the presidential election season makes such a vote on TPP too difficult. These sources generally acknowledge that a congressional vote on a final TPP bill would become harder the later it drags into 2016, and say that the drop-dead date would be the August...