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Article: Foley: Braking Partisanship; Majority Leader's Pragmatism Finds Respect
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- The Washington Post
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- March 30, 1987
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When Rep. Thomas S. Foley went home to Washington state during
last month's congressional recess, he quickly ran into the type of
issue that makes Democrats salivate in a year when fair trade is one
of their battle cries.
Meeting with several dozen farmers at the Spokane fairgrounds,
Foley was asked whether Congress will impose the herbicide
restrictions on imported Canadian lentils that the Environmental
Protection Agency places on the domestic crop.
House Majority Leader Foley easily could have trashed the Reagan
administration's handling of the issue. But he passed up taking what
could have been an easy shot for quick political points.
Instead, Foley launched into a lengthy and ...