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Petersen announced the resolution at the UC’s meeting on Sunday night, but in an interview with The Crimson early Monday afternoon, Pilbeam said no agreement had yet been reached...
...five manufacturers, which also include Smith & Nephew and Stryker, disclosed the arrangements last week as part of an agreement to avoid federal prosecution that was announced in late September. The agreement did not mandate disclosure of consulting prior...
...House Speaker Nancy Pelosi stood side by side with President Bush's Trade Representative Susan Schwab and announced they had come to an agreement on how to handle at least two of four outstanding free trade treaties awaiting approval by Congress. "Today is a recognition of the results of the November election," Pelosi told reporters in Washington. "It takes us to a place where we can have a bipartisan consensus on trade, but only with the recognition of the importance and the centrality of labor principles and environmental principles...
...confronted with since the Clinton era. Thursday night the House is anticipated to finally pass the first, and least controversial, of the treaties - the Peru Free Trade Act - before it heads to the Senate, where it is expected to have an easier time. Pelosi and Schwab came to an agreement on the Peruvian and Panamanian Free Trade treaties after some labor and environmental standards were added in. Peru has moved to enact these requirements, making it the most likely to pass muster with tree huggers and union lovers. But experts say there is little chance the other three - Colombia, South...
...wasn't Pelosi able to make the agreement stick? In one sense it's simple - a very expensive lobbying war between business and the unions. Democrats, long torn on trade, were caught in the middle, and ended up having to answer to more than just their leadership on Capitol Hill...