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...Democratic majority. As Gingrich and the Republicans began to stumble on issues like school lunches and Medicare, Gephardt and his increasingly optimistic troops began hammering out Families First in endless meetings. "Everyone brought their ideas," he says. Most of them were thrown out, including Gephardt's own pet protectionist proposals on trade...
...Ross Perot reportedly has settled on political economist and anti-trade author Pat Choate as his running mate. The choice was to be announced in a half-hour infomercial scheduled to air on CBS at 8 p.m. EDT tonight, Reform Party sources tell The Associated Press. Choate is a protectionist and was a strong Perot ally in opposing NAFTA. He co-authored a book with Perot after the Texas billionaire's unsuccessful 1992 presidential run. Choate recently has traveled the country promoting Perot as the best alternative to the two major party candidates. During an appearance in South Carolina last...
...that was one reason the agendas ran so thick and fast last week, as protectionist unions and corporate spin doctors and politicians and consumers saw 20 years' worth of exploitation boil down into one week's news. Labor Secretary Robert Reich skillfully recruited Gifford to the cause--offering absolution if she would become a watchdog. Reich argues that more than half the 22,000 U.S. garment contractors pay less than the minimum wage; working conditions are often appalling. He has about 800 inspectors to police them all, which is why public outrage comes in handy. "Consumer pressure is vitally important...
Buchanan's protectionist and anticorporate message resonated well in New Hampshire, a state still hurting from the recession of the late 1980s and traditionally leery of the federal government...
...Many of his ideas are not in tune with those of Newt Gingrich and many of the mainstream Republicans," said David S. DeSimone '98, vice president of the Harvard Republican Club. "Buchanan's economic policy is a protectionist policy, isolationist in nature, and that's not a part of the Republican Party...