Cenk Uygur
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Bipartisan Effort To Sneak TPP During Lame Duck
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September 17, 2016
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“Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch said Wednesday that Congress will pass a sweeping Asia-Pacific trade agreement before the end of the year.
The Utah Republican said he is working with the Obama administration to resolve several lingering issues that could ultimately pave the way for a vote on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) in the lame-duck session after the November elections.
"I think we're going to get it done in lame-duck," Hatch told The Hill.
First though, the White House needs to calm his concerns over the truncated length of patent protections for high-tech medicines called biologics, Hatch said.
Hatch and other pro-trade Republicans want 12 years of data exclusivity, which is the U.S. standard, whereas the TPP provides up to eight years.
"There are ways of doing it, they'll just have to do it," Hatch said of the White House's efforts.
Hatch said he is getting assurances from the White House that a solution is in the works that will address the trade deal's problems.”
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