07-21-2008, 10:19 PM
US Business interest is coming across highly in this game.
They have mobalized the Indian business group to lobby among the Indian
people as never before
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7500212.stm
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Started mobilising
The State Department though has repeatedly said that the current administration will keep trying until 19 January, the day before the next president takes his oath of office.
"There will be a lot of lobbying from US industry to make the Congress move as quickly as they can," says Ms Dormandy.
In fact, the lobbying has already begun.
Swadesh Chatterjee of the Indo-US Friendship Council, a group that has worked hard for the deal, says if the Congress wants, it can reduce the timeframe needed to ratify it.
"We have already started mobilising our group, working closely with US business interests and the administration," says Mr Chatterjee.
He points out that the 2006 Hyde Act, which provided the framework for the nuclear deal in Congress, was passed at 0130 hours on the last day of a lame-duck session in 2006.
"This needs a simple up and down vote and they better think twice if they can't assemble for something that's so important for US business as well as Indian-Americans," says Mr Chatterjee.
The race against time is now well and truly on.
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They have mobalized the Indian business group to lobby among the Indian
people as never before
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7500212.stm
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Started mobilising
The State Department though has repeatedly said that the current administration will keep trying until 19 January, the day before the next president takes his oath of office.
"There will be a lot of lobbying from US industry to make the Congress move as quickly as they can," says Ms Dormandy.
In fact, the lobbying has already begun.
Swadesh Chatterjee of the Indo-US Friendship Council, a group that has worked hard for the deal, says if the Congress wants, it can reduce the timeframe needed to ratify it.
"We have already started mobilising our group, working closely with US business interests and the administration," says Mr Chatterjee.
He points out that the 2006 Hyde Act, which provided the framework for the nuclear deal in Congress, was passed at 0130 hours on the last day of a lame-duck session in 2006.
"This needs a simple up and down vote and they better think twice if they can't assemble for something that's so important for US business as well as Indian-Americans," says Mr Chatterjee.
The race against time is now well and truly on.
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