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cqpolitics.com - 4/22/2009
Free Trade Returns to the Table
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The Obama administration and trade advocates in Congress are trying to put a series of long-delayed trade pacts back on the front burner, despite widespread skepticism on Capitol Hill about the benefits of expanded international commerce. On the heels of the Summit of the Americas in Trinidad ...
ibdeditorial.com - 4/22/2009
IBDeditorials.com: Editorials, Political Cartoons, and Polls from Investor's Business Daily -- ...
— ibdeditorial.com — INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY | Posted Monday, April 20, 2009 4:20 PM PT Trade: Hugo Chavez may have... gotten a grinning handshake from President Obama in Trinidad. But it was our authentic friend and ally, Colombia, that got substance. The president got ... (more) IBDeditorials.com: Editorials, Political Cartoons, and ...

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online.wsj.com - 4/20/2009
New Movement on Colombia Trade Pact
— online.wsj.com — LAURA MECKLER PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad -- President Barack Obama discussed a pending free-trade agreement with his Colombian counterpart... Saturday and dispatched his trade representative to discuss U.S. concerns over Colombia's treatment of labor ... (more) New Movement on Colombia Trade Pact

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nypost.com - 4/22/2009
UNIONS' BIG COLOMBIA LIE - New York Post
— nypost.com — April 28, 2008 HOUSE Speaker Nancy Pelosi has put US- Colombia Trade Promotion Agreement on the back... burner - apparently permanently. "The Colombia FTA is dead on arrival," explained Rep. Mike Michaud (D-Maine), co-founder of the House Trade Working ... (more) UNIONS' BIG COLOMBIA LIE - New York Post

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Is Obama Warming to Colombia Free Trade?
RedState: Conservative News and Community — ... Congressional Quarterly has a short piece on team Obama’s sudden revisiting of three free trade agreements that have been languishing in Congress for quite some time, all three efforts that the Bush Administration began but was unable to settle. ...

Is Obama Warming to Columbia Free Trade?
Stop The ACLU — ... Posted on April 22, 2009 -By Warner Todd Huston Congressional Quarterly has a short piece on team Obama’s sudden revisiting of three free trade agreements that have been languishing in Congress for quite some time, all three efforts that the Bush Administration began but was unable to settle. One is a trade agreement with South Korea, the second is a Panama trade agreement and the third the Columbia Free Trade pact. It is the later that I find the most interesting and the most hopeful. I find it interesting because the Democrats have been adamantly against this agreement ...

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