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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration plans to ask Congress this year to renew White House quot;trade promotion authorityquot; so it can finish talks on an Asia Pacific trade pact and pursue other possible initiatives, the top U.S. trade official said on Wednesday. quot;We#39;ve got to have it,quot; U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk told the House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee, referring ...

With the payroll tax cut extended through the end of the year, unemployment insurance reformed, and the Medicare doc fix achieved, many of the president’s top legislative priorities have been accomplished more than nine months before the national elections this fall. It’s an unusual state of...

By Rodney Jaleco, ABS-CBN North America Bureau February 21, 2012 WASHINGTON D.C. –Congressman Scott Rigell and his wife Teri hosted dinner last week in their handsome home near Capitol Hill for Philippine Ambassador Jose L. Cuisia Jr. It was one of those evening socials, a staple of the diplomatic and political circuit in the nation’s [...]

Philippine Ambassador to the U.S. Jose L. Cuisia, Jr. has been mounting a charm offensive on Capitol Hill to push the SAVE Act, a trade bill pending in Congress that would provide duty-free access for US textiles entering the Philippines and Philippine apparel shipped to the US.