New lawmakers demanding trade policy role (WP)

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/12/AR2007031201135.html

New lawmakers demanding trade policy role

By Doug Palmer
Reuters
Monday, March 12, 2007; 6:52 PM

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Freshmen Senate Democrats asked on Monday for a role in crafting any new U.S. trade legislation, joining a similar push by their colleagues in the U.S. House of Representatives.

The move by the newly elected lawmakers is unusual because they traditionally defer to senior colleagues, and their request shows determination to translate last year's election victories into action on trade.

"Years of job-killing trade agreements are taking their toll on workers and small business owners alike," said Sen. Sherrod Brown, an Ohio Democrat.

Brown and other so-called freshmen senators -- who were elected to the Senate for the first time last year -- ran campaigns that called for major changes in U.S. trade policy.

FULL story at link.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

1. A.F.T.

About. Fucking. Time.

[Greeby]

2. Well, Sherrod Brown is hardly a newbie on this

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Myths-Free-Trade-American-Policy/dp/1595581243/ref=sr_1_1/202-1401467-5091045?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1173833696&sr=1-1