House Democrats To Scrutinize TPP For Compliance With May 10 Deal

House Democrats plan to carefully scrutinize the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement in consultation with stakeholders to assess how its provisions on labor, environment, and pharmaceutical intellectual property (IP) measure up to the standards included in the so-called "May 10" agreement during the 90-day review period that kicked off Nov. 5, according to a Ways & Means staffer. The May 10 deal, struck in 2007 between House Democrats and the George W. Bush administration, changed the labor, environmental, and IP provisions of...