EXPLOSIVE: Hillary Pushed Columbia Trade Deal As Secretary Of State (leftover trade deal from Bush)

[Lucinda]

28. Neither she nor Obama supported the 2008 version of the Bill. Obama in fact

stalled action on the bill for three years, until 2011, to the great moaning and groaning of of the Republicans. Not only was the bill revised to protect displaced workers, there were contingencies put in place that Columbia had to meet before we would agree to vote on the revised bill.

Overview:
http://news.yahoo.com/congress-passes-3-free-trade-agreements-003629553.html

The US and Columbian governments signed an "Action Plan" agreement in April of 2011 which listed objectives that the Columbian government had to meet in order for the FTA to go forward. This link below, discusses status of the protections put in place for the Columbian workers as of mid October 2011:

http://votesmart.org/public-statement/645489/united-states-colombia-trade-promotion-agreement-implementation-act#.VtNfQ3vrytc


The revised bill finally came for a vote at the end of October 2011.

So Hillary did not lie. She never supported the lousy Bush bill. She did support Obama in the revised version of the bill, and the action agreement that was made with Columbia about reforms and protections for the Coumbians.


editing to say that her emails were in the October time frame when the US was finally ready to move forward after the Columbians had implemented the Action Plan items.



editing again because I am the Queen of Typos.