Word: congress
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...world trade bureaucracy for the past seven years, has become at once more serious and more ludicrous. More serious because, unless the Europeans fulfill their obligations under various trade agreements to accept imported bananas, support for trade restrictions will grow among many U.S. commercial interests and their advocates in Congress. A preliminary settlement appeared to have been reached last week allowing the U.S. to impose punitive tariffs on $520 million in European goods, though that figure is subject to review. Whatever the amount, it is not likely to please Europe, and that could spark a trade war that would drive...
...Rising concern about the U.S. trade deficit--up 50% in 1998 and expected to rise as much as 80% in 1999--has critics clamoring. Last month Senate majority leader Trent Lott, in a letter to President Clinton, warned, "If the Administration will not take action to protect trade agreements, Congress will have no choice but to take action...
...going to question Jesse Ventura's qualifications to be Governor of Minnesota [NATION, Jan. 18], you are going to have to define qualification. For the past month, I've been watching more than 500 "qualified" bozos scrambling through the hallowed halls of Congress trying to figure how to get out of the mudhole the House Judiciary Committee dumped them in. And you worry about Jesse? Ventura is a joy who got elected with votes, not big bucks. He not only doesn't owe anybody anything, he doesn't have to protect anybody--not that he couldn't. Jesse will...
...President came out into the Rose Garden for his last apology and slightly brushed one of the columns and nobody but me seemed to notice, I had this fleeting wish to be on msnbc again, to have my director run the videotape again and again while I blistered the Congress for turning Bill Clinton into the new Gerald Ford...
...Pentagon weighed deploying several thousand ground troops to Kosovo, an event in nearby Bosnia last week highlighted just how wrong the Clinton administration was when in 1995 it assured Congress that troops would not stay there long. The Pentagon opened what's basically a Wal-Mart PX at Task Force Eagle, the central base for G.I.'s deployed in Bosnia. The 10,000-square-foot facility is good for the morale of the troops, who are restricted to the post for most of their time in Bosnia. The store features souvenir mugs, Beanie Babies, T-shirts, electronics, CDs -- the best...