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...side is the U.S. Congress, full of people convinced that China's export machine is hurting their constituents. These lawmakers have had it with Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson's good-cop approach to China. A bill that would label the renminbi "fundamentally misaligned" and force the Treasury to do something about it is making its way through the Senate. Several different currency bills have been introduced in the House. The legislation for the most part is much less harsh than that proposed two years ago by Senators Chuck Schumer of New York and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, which would...
...exports and violations of intellectual property law, have been circulating in the Senate for months. But since the recent health scares over toothpaste laced with antifreeze and tainted pet food from China, the anti-China sentiment on Capitol Hill has noticeably risen. So much so that Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson is about to head to China to raise "issues of concern to the U.S. Congress" with Chinese officials, including Chinese Premier Hu Jintao...
...wage bill. Rangel has said he has no interest in raising taxes on the middle class. He has cited as his top priority fixing the alternative minimum tax, which he argues unfairly burdens middle-class families. He has also led breakthrough negotiations on free trade with Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Trade Representative Susan Schwab that put in place labor and environmental protections as part of deals the Administration dearly wants to get through Congress. "Students of Congress knew that was exactly how [Rangel] would operate," said the Brookings Institution's Tom Mann...
...Americans have many virtues-we are a hardworking, innovative people-but we are also impatient.' HENRY PAULSON, U.S. Treasury Secretary, opening a two-day U.S.-China trade summit in Washington D.C. by warning that the talks needed to address "immediate concerns" such as the effects of China's trade surplus and its undervalued currency on the U.S. economy...
...with Harvard ties—Robert B. Zoellick, R. Glenn Hubbard, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala ’77, and Baker Professor of Economics Martin S. Feldstein ’61—have garnered media speculation as candidates for the post, and Secretary of the Treasury Henry M. Paulson Jr., a graduate of the Business School, is heading up the search process. Wolfowitz announced he would resign earlier this month after a protracted scandal surrounding the promotion and compensation for his girlfriend Shaha Riza, formerly a senior communications officer at the bank. Zoellick, a Law School and Kennedy School...