Pascrell: Lighthizer’s meeting with Ways & Means Democrats was ‘honest talk about trade’

Democratic members of the House Ways & Means Committee left a meeting with U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer last week hopeful they could build a relationship with the administration, with subcommittee ranking member Bill Pascrell (D-NJ) telling Inside U.S. Trade the discussion was “more honest talk than I’ve had in a long time about trade in any administration.” “He was very direct with us, I thought,” Pascrell said of the Oct. 25 meeting, adding that he would not...