Menendez Warns State Against Efforts To 'Manipulate' Trafficking Report

Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ) is threatening to unravel a compromise he earlier blessed to amend provisions on human trafficking in the newly enacted fast-track law, but whether doing so would have any impact on congressional consideration of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) now seems unclear. The Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) law currently disqualifies any trade deal from fast track if it involves a country on the State Department's “Tier 3” black list of nations failing to address human trafficking, which last...