By JIM ABRAMS
Associated Press
September 25, 2007
WASHINGTON – An uncontested committee vote Tuesday on the U.S.-Peru free trade agreement set the stage for that accord becoming the first to be approved by Congress since the Democrats …

JAMES CARROLL
Published on Monday, September 3, 2007 by The Boston Globe
LABOR DAY can seem like a holiday that belongs to another era. That is not because the trade union movement is no longer relevant, nor …

Contact: Brendan Daly (Pelosi), 202-226-7616
Stacey Bernards (Hoyer), 202-225-3130
Matthew Beck/J. Jioni Palmer (Ways and Means), 202-225-8933
Friday, June 29, 2007
Pelosi, Hoyer, Rangel, and Levin Statement on Trade
Washington, D.C. – House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, …

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Lori Wallach: Long overdue, Fast Track Finally Passes into History; Millions of Those Harmed by Fast Track-Enabled Trade Deals Celebrate
OBITUARIES: Fast Track 1974-1995/ 2002-2007
After a brief, damaging existence, Fast Track was …

Tom Hayden
Sunday, May 27, 2007
At the center of the internal Democratic debate over trade is House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, whose leadership role impels her to bend to the right of her progressive, anti-establishment district constituents.
On …

On May 10, House Speaker Pelosi and Ways and Means Chair Rangel announced a deal with the Bush Administration on trade. It followed months of closed-door negotiations between Ways and Means leaders and the Bush …

Tue May 22, 2007 4:53PM EDT
By Doug Palmer
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Democratic leaders in the U.S. House of
Representatives tried to quell party concerns on Tuesday about a trade
policy deal reached earlier this month with the Bush …

Date: May 18, 2007
House Democrats critical of the process that led to the announcement of last week’s free trade agreement template are still waiting for the leadership to allow the detailed discussion on trade they …