The Gazette: Grassley: Pence visit may calm trade fears"He expects Pence, who also has stops planned in Kansas City and Chicago, will talk about the $117 million the Trump administration awarded Cedar Rapids for flood control because “every time (candidate Trump) was in Cedar Rapids that was brought up to him by everybody.” More importantly, Grassley suggested Pence “will hear some of the things I hear — common sense coming from Iowans.” Although he is concerned that Congress has delegated too much authority on trade issues to the president, Grassley said it would be inappropriate for Congress to get involved while the president is in negotiations with trade partners. Although he didn’t plan to support a non-binding resolution calling for congressional involvement in setting national security tariffs, Grassley voted for it Wednesday after the language was changed. Trade issues came up at each of his 10 county meetings last week, but farmers are not telling him the president shouldn’t be trying to renegotiate trade policies. That tells him 'people want the president to succeed because they think we have been unfairly treated.'" |
