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6/19/2007--Introduced.<br/>Trade Adjustment Assistance Reform Act - Amends the Trade Act of 1974 to repeal group eligibility requirements for trade adjustment assistance (TAA) that: (1) the country to which the workers' firm has shifted production of the articles be a party to a free trade agreement with the United States; or (2) such country be a beneficiary country under the Andean Trade Preference Act, African Growth and Opportunity Act, or the Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act.<br/>Requires the Secretary of Labor, with respect to textile and apparel workers, to make group eligibility determinations without regard to the sales, imports, and production factors of the group eligibility requirements.<br/>Requires funds provided to a state to cover the administrative costs associated with its TAA responsibilities to be sufficient to cover all costs associated with operating the program, including caseworker costs.<br/>Increases the amount of payments for training of adversely affected workers under the Act.<br/>Amends the Internal Revenue Code to increase the credit for health insurance costs of certain TAA and Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) pension recipients.<br/>Requires the Secretaries of the Treasury and of Labor each to carry out compatible and coordinated programs to simplify the TAA and credit eligibility process.<br/>

1182225600 2007-06-19 Fri Nov 07 15:51:14 -0600 2008 introduced 44689 'act':7 '1974':9 'bill':2 'amend':4 'trade':6,13 'adjust':14 'assist':15 'purpos':24 'textil':17 'worker':20 'apparel':19 'respect':11 47770 official introduced 44689 'act':5 'trade':1 'adjust':2 'assist':3 'reform':4 51044 short introduced 44689 1182225600 Tue Jun 19 00:00:00 -0500 2007 118893 D000601 1936-07-29 Elizabeth 'dole':2,4,6 'elizabeth':1,3,5 F 300035 Dole Elizabeth_Dole H. Elizabeth Dole N00008071 7369 Republican Presbyterian Elizabeth Dole 5.0 C000127 1958-10-13 511 Dirksen Senate Office Building http://cantwell.senate.gov/contact/ 202-228-0514 Maria 'd':4 'wa':5 'sen':1 'maria':2,6,8 'cantwel':3,7,9 F 300018 Cantwell Maria_Cantwell Sen. Maria Cantwell [D, WA] N00007836 12142 Democrat 202-224-3441 Roman Catholic WA Maria Cantwell 4.28125 http://cantwell.senate.gov SenatorCantwell introduced 44689 1182225600 Tue Jun 19 00:00:00 -0500 2007 118893 action 44689 1182225600 Tue Jun 19 00:00:00 -0500 2007 118894 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.