Bush Set to Veto House-Passed Bill That Would Help America’s Workers
31st October 2007
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Loading ...When American workers' jobs are shipped overseas because of the flawed U.S. trade policies that encourage employers to move offshore, the workers' primary helping hand to get back on their feet is the Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) program. But as Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.), chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, says:
The painful truth is that the current TAA program is not working.
Today, the House, by a bipartisan 264-157 margin approved a bill (H.R. 3920) that reauthorizes and overhauls TAA, makes improvements to current federal-state unemployment insurance (UI) system and strengthens the 1988 plant closing laws.