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Article: REP. LIPINSKI CRITICIZES PRESIDENT BUSH'S MOVE TO FORCE VOTE ON COLOMBIA TRADE AGREEMENT
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- April 8, 2008
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Rep. Daniel Lipinski, D-Ill. (3rd CD), issued the following news release:
Today, Congressman Dan Lipinski strongly criticized the President's decision to send the U.S. - Colombia Trade Agreement to Congress without Congressional support, and urged his colleagues to vote against the trade deal. This decision by the President represents an unprecedented decision to forgo established protocols dictating that the President first consult Congress before submitting a trade agreement for a vote.
"It is simply reprehensible that the President would push such a trade deal at a time when middle-class American families are already feeling the effects of a slumping economy," said Rep. Lipinski. "This ...