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Paul Ryan Adds Amendment to Trade Bill to Block Climate Deals

Paul Ryan Adds Amendment to Trade Bill to Block Climate Deals

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If House Republicans get their way, President Obama won’t be able to use any trade pact to strike a deal on climate change.

Late Tuesday evening, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Paul Ryan of Wisconsin offered up an amendment to a customs bill that would “ensure that trade agreements do not require changes to U.S. law or obligate the United States with respect to global warming or climate change.”

Paul Ryan Adds Amendment to Trade Bill to Block Climate Deals

-National Journal, 6/10/2015