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Sidney Weintraub, the CSIS Simon Chair in Political Economy, was quoted by Dallas Business Journal, "Trade Frozen in Congress, Hot on Campaign Trail."
Congress won't vote on any more free trade agreements until the federal government expands assistance to U.S. workers who lose their jobs due to imports.
Meanwhile, both Democratic candidates for president oppose the three trade deals awaiting action by Congress and want to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), which lowered trade barriers among the U.S., Canada and Mexico in 1994. [...]
Clinton also has pledged to re-examine all trade agreements every five years.
"I don't understand why she's saying it," said Sidney Weintraub, who holds the William E. Simon Chair in Political Economy at the Center for Strategic & International Studies, a think tank in Washington, D.C. Read the article
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