Trade Promotion Authority. During consideration of the Trade Promotion Authority bill (H.R. 3009), Senator Mark Dayton (D-Minn.), in an effort to retain congressional power and preserve sovereignty, offered an amendment to enable a simple majority of senators to remove from fast-track authority any trade agreement provisions limiting U.S. trade remedy laws (e.g., anti-dumping measures). Under fast-track procedures, now called Trade Promotion Authority, senators must accept or reject entire trade agreements (without amendment) presented by the president.
The Senate rejected a motion to table (kill) Dayton’s amendment on May 14, 2002 by a vote of 38 to 61 (Roll Call 110). We have assigned pluses to the nays.
