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Deborah Koff Ross: “This isn't a trade agreement. If it was a trade agreement, we would have an up-or-down vote.”

On the recordFebruary 15, 2017
This isn't a trade agreement. If it was a trade agreement, we would have an up-or-down vote.
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Deborah Koff Ross
Democratic · North Carolina

Editor's note · Context

Ross expresses concern about the process not being a formal trade agreement.

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