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Bush may be right about the American people. In 1992 voters threw his father out of office in favor of a Democrat with a potent intellect and an encyclopedic command of everything from GATT to the gap in wages. But Americans learned that Bill Clinton has far less command over his character, and that may have left them with a yearning for a less complicated President. In Texas, Bush is known as a skilled manager and a confident, crisp decision maker. He has pursued, for the most part, simple, understandable policy goals and has stuck to his agenda with remarkable...
Those obscure, distant bureaucrats had developed a set of principles that struck at the heart of the environmental movement. According to the GATT (and later the WTO), free trade meant that a country's laws might favor one kind of product over another but should generally not discriminate between two identical products just because they were made differently. The tuna exported by Mexico wasn't any different from the tuna caught by other countries: the fact that more dolphins died in the process was simply a different way of making the same product. For environmentalists, the threat was clear...
...some aides detect a new hesitancy in areas where Clinton has long been firm. Until now, for instance, it is difficult to think of an issue on which Clinton has been more consistent than trade. His campaigns to open markets through NAFTA and the global-trading arrangement known as GATT rank as two of his chief foreign-policy accomplishments...
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...
After spending 20 years as a Christian missionary in Southeast Asia and seeing closed markets there, Tinsley is convinced that free-trade agreements such as NAFTA and GATT are a sham. Important to his forested district, Tinsley wants to loosen government prohibitions on logging, an idea in line with his general philosophy of small government...