Word: demint
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Dates: during 2001-2001
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...hard hit by trade competition. One key pro-Bush vote, for example, came from North Carolina Republican Robin Hayes, who regularly opposes trade bills but switched sides after the White House promised to protect his state's textile producers. The decisive ballot was cast by South Carolina's Jim DeMint, who changed his vote to Bush's side when the tally hit 214-214. At the last minute, G.O.P. leaders promised DeMint that South Carolina textile companies would be protected against cheap Caribbean and Latin imports. But Lindsey Graham, a fellow S.C. Republican who is running for a Senate seat...