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slipslidingaway Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-23-08 09:54 PM
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32. Glad you NOW AGREE that all votes are not equal in respect to
Edited on Wed Jan-23-08 09:56 PM by slipslidingaway
trade and the impact they have on our economy. Although you continue to overlook the report published prior to the vote and continue to ignore the votes from the House. Taken together, which is what I have said along, more Republicans voted for the bill than Democrats.

Th Senate vote was in September 2000 which is when Edwards said that the bill would...

"...As he explained his vote on Sept. 19, 2000, Edwards, then a senator from North Carolina, told the Senate, “Trade between U.S. companies and the Chinese will likely explode in the coming years, generating jobs and revenues in this country. It could easily be the keystone in the continuing prosperity of this nation.”

He was wrong, yes others were as well, but each person must take responsibility for themselves. Again some made the right decisions and others made the wrong decisions.


Maybe he did not bother to read some of the information and was briefed...or something.

:shrug:


February 16, 2000 Issue Brief #137

The High Cost of the China-WTO Deal
Administration's own analysis suggests spiraling deficits, job losses

http://www.epi.org/content.cfm/issuebriefs_ib137

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