Rebuilding the Center on Trade: Trade Adjustment Assistance and the Politics of Fast Track

8:30 a.m. Registration and Coffee

8:45 a.m. Welcoming Remarks

Steven Clemons, Executive Vice President, New America Foundation

9:00 a.m. Making Losers into Winners: Trade Adjustment Assistance and U.S. Trade Policy

The Honorable Max Baucus (D-MT), Chairman, Senate Finance Committee

The Honorable Susan Collins (R-ME), U.S. Senate and Ranking Member, Subcommittee on Children and Families, Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions*

The Honorable Jeff Bingaman (D-NM), Chairman, Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee

9:45 a.m. America's Stake in Global Trade: Charting the Next Course

The Honorable William Reinsch, President, National Foreign Trade Council

10:30 a.m. The TAA Debate: Perspectives to Consider

George Becker, President Emeritus, United Steel Workers of America

The Honorable William Frenzel, former Member, U.S. House of Representatives (R-MN)and Guest Scholar, Brookings Institution

Sebastian Mallaby, Washington Post

The Honorable Christopher Spear, Asst. Secretary for Policy, U.S. Department of Labor*

Bruce Stokes, Economics Columnist, National Journal* (moderator)

12:00 p.m. Trade and the National Interest: A No Nonsense Perspective on What America Needs to Do to Restore Faith in Global Trade

introduction

The Honorable Tom Daschle* Senate Majority Leader

The Honorable Mickey Kantor, Former U.S. Trade Representative and Partner, Mayer, Brown & Platt

1:00 p.m. Adjournment

*Invited

Participants

• Max Baucus
  U.S. Senate (D-MT), Ranking Member, Senate Finance Committee

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