In her statement released after Congress released details of its spending bill, NAM's Linda Dempsey lauded congressional leaders for listening to manufacturers and moving to take 2 major actions to promote U.S. exports. Dempsey cited lifting of "decades-old" crude oil exports ban as well as repeal of Country-of-Origin Labelling (COOL) provisions. Latter, according to Dempsey, "have repeatedly been found inconsistent with global trade rules the United States has helped create."