WASHINGTON, July 29 -- Sen. Michael Bennet issued the following press release:
Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet, a senior member of the Senate Finance Committee, joined legislation to repeal outdated Jackson-Vanik trade restrictions on certain countries in Central Asia. The legislation is led by Senators Steve Daines (R-Mont.), Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Jim Risch (R-Idaho) and Ranking Member Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), and Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), as well as Representatives Carol Miller (R-W.V.) and Jimmy Panetta (D-Calif.) in the House.
The Jackson-Vanik Amendment is a set of trade restrictions in the Trade Act of 1974 that denied unconditional normal trade relations to certain countries that had non-market economies a...