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...NAFTA coalition hold together for bigger challenges...
...formidable, if unlikely, ally in Newt Gingrich, a Republican who has a reputation for shooting first and aiming later. The White House dithering led the Republican whip to fire a warning shot across the Administration's bow. Reflecting the fears of his colleagues that Clinton would blame them if NAFTA failed, Gingrich called the President's | efforts at that point "pathetic." Unless Clinton could come up with 100 Democratic votes, Gingrich said, he could not deliver the 118 Republicans needed for victory...
When lawmakers from sugar producing states held out until the last minute, NAFTA czar Daley asked Agriculture Secretary Mike Espy to gently remind top sugar lobbyists that their industry had been unscathed by the 1990 farm bill but might not receive such favorable treatment when farm programs come up for review in 1995. "The public is not looking for an innocent as President," said Clinton pollster Stan Greenberg. "They want someone who knows how to use power...
...after the NAFTA vote, Clinton flew to Seattle, where his victory strengthened his hand considerably at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Council meeting. The four-day gathering marks the first time the 17 Pacific Rim leaders have ever met as a group as well as the first time an American President has met with a Chinese leader since the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown. The President hoped to use the conference to encourage the opening of new markets...
G.O.P. bad boy delivers NAFTA for Clinton, now bizarrely in his debt...