Top Democratic Trade Lawyer Leaving House Ways and Means Committee

Minority Chief Trade Counsel Viji Rangaswami for the House Ways and Means Committee is leaving the committee. Ways and Means Trade Subcommittee. Chairman Kevin Brady (R-Texas) wished her well in an opening statement of a Sept. 20 hearing on international service agreements. Rangaswami is "leaving the Committee after over a decade of service" and has provided important contributions in "her work on free trade agreements, our preference programs, our trade remedy laws, Trade Adjustment Assistance, and China policy," he said. The Democratic office of the House Ways and Means committee declined to comment further.