From David Sirota:
Bloomberg News tonight reports that President Bush will be stumping
this week with Fortune 500 CEOs to pressure Democrats to pass the
Peru Free Trade Agreement - a deal that expands NAFTA into South
America. Bush is simultaneously threatening to veto a bill to provide
aid to workers who lose their jobs thanks to NAFTA-style trade deals.
Incredibly, the House Democratic leadership is now officially
whipping votes to get Democrats to support the Peru deal, even though
most of the new lawmakers who delivered the Democrats the
congressional majority specifically campaigned against NAFTA-style
trade agreements. Attached is a Hill Newspaper story about the fight
within the Democratic Party, noting that the battle is also bleeding
into the presidential race this week. - David
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By Jonathan E. Kaplan
November 06, 2007
Many freshman Democratic lawmakers are expected to oppose a free
trade deal with Peru this week despite pressure from House leaders.
Although Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has told her freshman class
that they may "vote their districts," Majority Leader Steny Hoyer
(D-Md.) and Ways and Means Chairman Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.) lobbied
Democrats over the weekend to support the measure, lawmakers said.
http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/freshman-dems-revolt-on-free-trade-2007-11-06.html
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