Inside Trade

February 14, 2025

Insider Interview

Blumenauer: Sens. Thune, Rubio could help advance trade legislation

By Jason Asenso  / January 14, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) and Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), as secretary of State, could be instrumental in helping the Congress and the Trump administration reauthorize key trade-preference programs, former House Ways & Means trade subcommittee ranking member Earl Blumenauer (D-OR) tells Inside U.S. Trade . Blumenauer, retired from Congress at the end of 2024, had represented Portland since 1996. He chaired the Ways & Means trade panel in 2019 after Democrats took control of the House and was...

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