The Democrat-led Congress can’t seem to get the Uyghur Forced Labor
Prevention Act, which passed the Senate unanimously in July, to
President Biden’s desk. Pointing to procedural issues and promises of
future action, Democratic leadership in both the House and Senate can’t
seem to agree on a strategy to pass the bill through both chambers,
despite publicly claiming they support it.
Later: Biden administration officials have been quietly telling lawmakers to slow down (Josh Rogin - Twitter).
Administration sources confirmed that in an October call between Deputy
Secretary of State Wendy R. Sherman and Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), the
other co-sponsor, Sherman made it clear that the administration prefers
a more targeted and deliberative approach to determining which goods
are the products of forced labor. She also told Merkley that getting
allied buy-in was critical and more effective than unilateral action… In
other words, while the administration supports the legislation in
public, they are asking Democrats to essentially water it down in
private (Washington Post).
From Marco Rubio: the opposition to my bill isn’t about a House blue slip. This is sick stuff (Twitter).
From
Seth Mandel: An extraordinarily Wendy Sherman thing to do. No skill
quite suits your advancement in Foggy Bottom like the ability to step
over bodies. The folks who thought a half-million Syrian bodies was a
fair price to pay for a ludicrously weak Iran deal also want to know why
we’re in such a rush to punish genocide when it’ll upset Nike (Twitter).
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