Many House Democrats have demanded the monitoring plan in exchange for their support of PNTR.
It is not as if Senators won't be given a chance to amend the PNTR bill.
They have announced their intention to offer an amendment to the PNTR legislation.
The PNTR, the Permanent Normal Trade Relations for Russia has passed through a couple of key committees on the Hill.
One of the last remaining hurdles in bringing PNTR to the Senate floor is the controversial bill sponsored by Sen.
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The House votes Wednesday on granting China the PNTR status, which would drop a variety of trade barriers between China and the United States.
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Thompson also may tie the PNTR bill to legislation requiring greater transparency for stock and bond offerings by Chinese and other foreign government-owned enterprises.
Somehow an issue that has a real, concrete, and rapidly approaching deadline (passing PNTR) has become sidelined and marginalized in favor of a bill that can be passed whenever.
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Supporters of granting China permanent normal trade relations (PNTR) have pushed Lott, R-Mississippi, to schedule a Senate vote on the issue before the Senate's summer recess begins in late July.
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Trade agreements fall under the jurisdiction of the Ways and Means Committee, which is scheduled to vote on PNTR for China on Wednesday, before advancing the trade bill to the full House of Representatives.
Russia wants PNTR to be defeated?
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