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David Sirota is a political journalist and nationally syndicated newspaper columnist at Creators Syndicate. David writes about political corruption, globalization and working-class economic issues often ignored by both of America's political parties.
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November 7, 2007 9:54 PM
Dems Delay NAFTA Expansion Vote; Make Your Voice Heard
The Hill Newspaper reports that the House Democratic leadership unexpectedly delayed the expected vote tonight on the Peru Free Trade Agreement - the agreement that expands the NAFTA trade model. The delay seems designed to give the leadership time to attempt to round up enough votes to get a majority of the Democratic caucus to support the deal - a milestone considered important.
Make your voice heard - use this tool to tell your Member of Congress to vote against the expansion of the job-killing, wage-destroying NAFTA trade model.

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As I watched this last night I got madder and madder. What was interesting was there were 4 camps Dem pro, Dem Con, Rep Pro, Rep Con. I certainly got the feeling this was a sure thing, some Dems were even calling this fair trade.
One thing I was curious about was if there was any cooperation / caucuses across party lines to fight these horrid trade deals.
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