Baucus stresses importance of adjustment assistance for American workers in trade deals

WASHINGTON — Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., told a meat export group May 25 that the pending trade agreements with South Korea, Panama and Colombia must be passed together with trade adjustment assistance for American workers and also said the 2012 farm bill must contain the permanent disaster program known as SURE that he authored in the 2008 farm bill.

By: Jerry Hagstrom, Special to Agweek