RSC, Tuesday Group Band Together
By Jackie Kucinich
Roll Call Staff
March 31, 2009, 12 a.m.
Moderate and conservative groups in the House Republican Conference are joining forces to press the Obama administration and Congressional Democrats on several issues where they have common ground.
Leaders of the conservative Republican Study Committee and the moderate Tuesday Group — which together represent the bulk of the House Republican caucus — on Friday sent a letter to President Barack Obama and U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk asking that free-trade agreements already negotiated between the United States and the nations of Colombia, South Korea and Panama be moved promptly.
Free-trade agreements “bolster and expand the American markets, keep the United States globally competitive and create opportunities for jobs at home,” according to the letter signed by Republican Study Committee Chairman Tom Price (Calif.) and co-chairmen of the Tuesday Group, Reps. Charlie Dent (Pa.) and Mark Kirk (Ill.).
“U.S. exports to our FTA partner countries have grown 40 percent faster than U.S. exports to the rest of the world. Thus, more FTAs would provide robust economic benefits to Americans at this time of economic crisis,” the letter continued.
Rep. Wally Herger (R-Calif.), who served as the ranking member on the Ways and Means Subcommittee on Trade in the 110th Congress, also signed the letter.
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