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March 17, 2021

Throughout her career, Katharine Tai has proven herself to be a tough negotiator and a dedicated public servant who cares deeply about how trade policies impact workers and their communities. Most recently, as chief counsel on international trade issues for Democrats on the U.S. House Committee on Ways and Means, she played a key role in the USMCA negotiations between congressional Democrats and the Trump administration. She was instrumental in securing provisions that eliminated special deals for pharmaceutical companies and provided new enforcement provisions for the deal’s labor protections. The result of her commitment to fighting for workers resulted in a trade deal with modest improvements over NAFTA for working people in all three countries under this agreement. 

While the USMCA was an improvement from our past trade policies, we must do more to ensure that our trade policies raise standards for workers. Katherine Tai is the right person to reform misguided trade policies that have cost millions of good American jobs because she understands what unfair trade is doing to U.S workers and has a forward-looking vision of building a new trade model that benefits working people and our planet. Her expertise in trade policy combined with her ability to work across constituency groups will better position us to ensure a trade policy that is fair to U.S. workers. 

This is Good for working people.

Vote result:
Passed

YEAs: 98 | NAYs: 0
Legislator State Sort descending Party Vote
Sen. Dan Sullivan AK Republican Yes
Sen. Lisa Murkowski AK Republican Yes
Sen. Richard C. Shelby AL Republican Yes
Sen. Tommy Tuberville AL Republican Yes
Sen. Tom Cotton AR Republican Yes
Sen. John Boozman AR Republican Yes
Sen. Kyrsten Sinema AZ ID ID Yes
Sen. Mark Kelly AZ Democrat Yes
Sen. Alex Padilla CA Democrat Yes
Sen. Dianne Feinstein CA Democrat Yes
Sen. John Hickenlooper CO Democrat Yes
Sen. Michael Bennet CO Democrat Yes
Sen. Richard Blumenthal CT Democrat Yes
Sen. Christopher S. Murphy CT Democrat Yes
Sen. Christopher A. Coons DE Democrat Yes
Sen. Thomas R. Carper DE Democrat Yes
Sen. Rick Scott FL Republican Yes
Sen. Marco Rubio FL Republican Yes
Sen. Jon Ossoff GA Democrat Yes
Sen. Raphael Warnock GA Democrat Yes