Wyden: Bipartisan ‘sweat equity’ undergirds Senate-backed trade title

HILLSBORO, OR – Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden (D-OR) on Wednesday said he supports many of the Democratic elements of the trade title in the House’s America COMPETES Act, but questioned whether those elements would garner enough support to pass the Senate. The two chambers last week announced conferees to reconcile differences between the America COMPETES Act and the Senate’s U.S. Innovation and Competition Act. Both include major domestic investments in critical supply chains and emerging technologies, including over...