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Here is the Senate Roll Call vote for the Colombia trade agreement yesterday. ****** U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes 112th Congress – 1st Session as compiled through Senate LIS by the Senate Bill Clerk under the direction of the Secretary of the Senate Vote Summary Question: On Passage of the Bill (H.R. 3078 ) Vote Number: 163 Vote Date: [...]

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Here is the Senate Roll Call vote for the Panama trade agreement yesterday. ****** U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes 112th Congress – 1st Session as compiled through Senate LIS by the Senate Bill Clerk under the direction of the Secretary of the Senate Vote Summary Question: On Passage of the Bill (H.R. 3079 ) Vote Number: 162 Vote Date: [...]

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Here is the Senate Roll Call vote for the Panama trade agreement yesterday. ****** U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes 112th Congress – 1st Session as compiled through Senate LIS by the Senate Bill Clerk under the direction of the Secretary of the Senate Vote Summary Question: On Passage of the Bill (H.R. 3080 ) Vote Number: 161 Vote Date: [...]

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FINAL VOTE RESULTS FOR ROLL CALL 783(Republicans in roman; Democrats in italic; Independents underlined) H R 3080      YEA-AND-NAY      12-Oct-2011      6:17 PM QUESTION:  On Passage BILL TITLE: To implement the United States-Korea Trade Agreement   YEAS NAYS PRES NV REPUBLICAN 219 21 1 DEMOCRATIC 59 130 3 INDEPENDENT TOTALS 278 151   4 —- YEAS    278 — Ackerman Adams Akin Alexander Amash Amodei Austria [...]

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FINAL VOTE RESULTS FOR ROLL CALL 782(Republicans in roman; Democrats in italic; Independents underlined) H R 3079      YEA-AND-NAY      12-Oct-2011      6:10 PM QUESTION:  On Passage BILL TITLE: To implement the United States-Panama Trade Promotion Agreement   YEAS NAYS PRES NV REPUBLICAN 234 6 1 DEMOCRATIC 66 123 3 INDEPENDENT TOTALS 300 129   4 —- YEAS    300 — Ackerman Adams Aderholt Akin Alexander Amash [...]

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FINAL VOTE RESULTS FOR ROLL CALL 781(Republicans in roman; Democrats in italic; Independents underlined) H R 3078      RECORDED VOTE      12-Oct-2011      6:04 PM QUESTION:  On Passage BILL TITLE: To implement the United States-Colombia Trade Promotion Agreement   AYES NOES PRES NV REPUBLICAN 231 9 1 DEMOCRATIC 31 158 3 INDEPENDENT TOTALS 262 167   4 —- AYES    262 — Ackerman Adams Aderholt Akin Alexander [...]

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Policy Statement: CPA Board Top Priority. Vote “no” on South Korea, Colombia, Panama trade agreements October 11, 2011 The CPA Board of Directors has existing policy opposing, as a top prioirity, the pending trade agreements with South Korea, Panama and Colombia.  The vote will enter our Congressional Trade Grade calculus. “Top priority” means the vote [...]

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CPA started distributing a petition opposing the Korea-U.S. Free Trade Agreement last week.  Already this week, we have 186 organizations and companies across the country that have signed the petition.  Let’s go for 300 next week! The purpose is to show that Main Street opposes this trade agreement even if the Big Money is supporting [...]

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The following post by Ian Fletcher, CPA’s Senior Economist, also appears in our Trade Reform blog.  Click here to see the post on the Huffington Post site. Obama is still pushing for free trade agreements with Panama, Colombia, and Korea, albeit with the thin fig leaf of demanding they be accompanied by money for so-called Trade Adjustment [...]

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The following letter was written by CPA’s CEO, Michael Stumo and appeared in The Chicago Tribune here. Steve Chapman‘s July 3 column, “Free trade, without apologies,” misses the point. U.S. trade performance must be judged by the core metrics: first, did we export more than we imported? and second, did we create more jobs through [...]

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