Republicans will go after “weak-kneed” Democrats to back the trade deal, DeFazio said. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call File Photo) President Barack Obama wants Congress to pass legislation that would give him the authority to negotiate a long-sought trade agreement with nearly a dozen countries in the Pacific region. [Reposted from Roll Call | Emma Dumain …
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House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (Calif.) on Thursday said Democrats aren’t opposed to trade, but want to make sure any deals negotiated by the administration help U.S. workers. [Reposted from The Hill | Vicki Needham | January 8, 2015] Pelosi and House Democrats are seen as a significant obstacle to the White House’s hopes of…
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Failed dreams and broken promises are all that remain of the hope that led the United States to open free trade with China in 2001. [Reposted from the Epoch Times | Joshua Phillips | January 1, 2015] President Bill Clinton had told a crowded room a year prior that “if you believe in a future…
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“We are tens of millions of Americans and we are committed that we are not going to have another raw deal on trade.” – Larry Cohen of the Communications Workers of America (CWA) Reposted from the Campaign for America’s Future blog | Dave Johnson | January 8, 2015] Several members of Congress joined with representatives…
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WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — The biggest engineering project in the history of the world got under way this week, but don’t feel bad if you’ve never heard of it. [by Darrell Delamaide | December 24, 2014 | MarketWatch] U.S. mainstream media tends to shy away from reporting anything that doesn’t directly involve American interests, especially…
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The 114th Congress will be sworn in next week, and the media campaign for President Obama’s next power grab is already under way. The New York Times, Washington Post and Politico (Tiger Beat on the Potomac) are all telling us the GOP Congress is ready to surrender its oversight responsibilities and grant extraordinary new…
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Nicaragua on Monday announced the start of work on a $50 billion shipping canal, an infrastructure project backed by China that aims to rival Panama’s waterway and revitalize the economy of the second-poorest country in the Americas. [by Gabriel Stargardter | December 22, 2014 | Reuters] The groundbreaking was largely symbolic, as work began…
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Success could be squandered if TPP concerns are not addressed. President Obama begins his pre-State of the Union swing today by highlighting a key success during his presidency – the auto sector recovery. The Obama administration touts its success in Detroit, but has failed to bring the Big Three’s concerns to trade negotiations. [Reposted from the blog…
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It was one thing to get elected but it will be another for the Republican Congress to work with a president best known for his imperious style and a hard left agenda. Still in the most recent round of budget negotiations, President Obama did accept modifications to the bank regulations imposed by Dodd-Frank, and other…
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On December 3, the U.S. Department of Commerce announced the initiation of antidumping and countervailing duty investigations on melamine from the People’s Republic of China and the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. [Reposted from the King & Spalding blog | Erienne Kilgore & Joshua Snead | January 6, 2015] The petitions were filed on November…
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