Word: gatt
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...Louisiana House as a Democrat at age 24, Baker switched to the G.O.P. in 1985 and has earned a reputation as one of the most conservative members of Congress. By Louisiana law, his 69% majority in the open primary clinches his sixth House term. His support for NAFTA and GATT isn't surprising in a district that includes Exxon's Baton Rouge manufacturing complex, home of the nation's second-largest chemical-manufacturing facility...
Blain has been a truck builder and union member for 30 years (he retired this year), and his political credentials are pure working-class. So are his positions: He opposes free-trade agreements like NAFTA and gatt (the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade) because he believes they expose the American laborer to harsher competition from abroad. He also supports family medical leave and regular, predictable increases in the minimum wage...
...stand: he has carried at least two-thirds of the vote each election since his first term, despite the forestry conflicts that persist in this district. He opposes most salvage logging efforts--a burning issue here--but has come down on the side of labor and is against NAFTA, GATT and the exporting of raw lumber to Asia. His ability to manage these divergent interests has helped keep him in office...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "These treaties [NAFTA and GATT] ship our jobs overseas and have contributed to the decline in the wages of American workers. How can we walk away from our own people? These people are hurting...
...fault. Any challenger to Bill Clinton would have had an uphill climb. When the economy is growing and the country is not at war, the incumbent always benefits. But some of Perot's most publicized post-'92 positions--in particular his campaigns to defeat NAFTA and GATT--had fizzled badly...