CEA Commends Bipartisan Senate Vote To Begin TPA Legislation Debate

CEA commends the Senate for its “bipartisan vote to begin debate” on Trade Promotion Authority legislation, President Gary Shapiro said Thursday in a statement. Access to global trade markets “is critical to our country’s economic future and highly important to the technology industry,” and so CEA will score the pending TPA vote as a "key vote" on its technology legislative scorecard, Shapiro said. The scorecard is CEA's numerical assessment of how much every member of Congress supports innovation, the association has said. “We now urge the Senate to proceed to a vote and pass TPA as quickly as possible.” Shapiro thinks the “odds are high” that TPA legislation will pass the Senate, he emailed us earlier this month (see 1505040040).