Sen. Barack Obama said Thursday the country has "often fallen short" of caring for war veterans during the Bush administration.
Sen. John McCain discussed free trade, illegal drugs and better relations Tuesday night with Colombian President Alvaro Uribe.
Sen. John McCain, the presumptive Republican nominee for president, arrived in Tuesday in Colombia on a three-day trip that includes Mexico to talk about trade and drugs.
As Sen. John McCain prepares to promote free trade during a high-profile trip to Colombia and Mexico, a poll out Tuesday suggests the issue may be a political hurdle as the general election campaign heats up.
The general campaign is on, independent voters are up for grabs, and Barack Obama is toning down his populist rhetoric - at least when it comes to free trade.
President Bush used a meeting with Mexican and Canadian leaders Monday to hammer Democrats who oppose a free trade deal between the U.S. and Colombia, saying that blocking the deal is "bad for American workers and bad for our security."
President Bush, joining the conservative leaders of Canada and Mexico for one final time, is eager to expand a trading relationship that has been lucrative for the United States and both of its neighbors
Sen. Hillary Clinton and her husband Bill don't see eye-to-eye when it comes to a controversial free trade pact.
President Bush on Monday moved to force a vote on a controversial free trade agreement between the United States and Colombia that Democrats oppose.
Sen. Hillary Clinton Monday questioned her Democratic rival's commitment to renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement, a charge that Sen. Barack Obama's camp called a "blatant distortion."
Sen. Barack Obama said Thursday the country has "often fallen short" of caring for war veterans during the Bush administration.
Sen. John McCain discussed free trade, illegal drugs and better relations Tuesday night with Colombian President Alvaro Uribe.
Sen. John McCain, the presumptive Republican nominee for president, arrived in Tuesday in Colombia on a three-day trip that includes Mexico to talk about trade and drugs.
As Sen. John McCain prepares to promote free trade during a high-profile trip to Colombia and Mexico, a poll out Tuesday suggests the issue may be a political hurdle as the general election campaign heats up.
The general campaign is on, independent voters are up for grabs, and Barack Obama is toning down his populist rhetoric - at least when it comes to free trade.
President Bush used a meeting with Mexican and Canadian leaders Monday to hammer Democrats who oppose a free trade deal between the U.S. and Colombia, saying that blocking the deal is "bad for American workers and bad for our security."
President Bush, joining the conservative leaders of Canada and Mexico for one final time, is eager to expand a trading relationship that has been lucrative for the United States and both of its neighbors
Sen. Hillary Clinton and her husband Bill don't see eye-to-eye when it comes to a controversial free trade pact.
President Bush on Monday moved to force a vote on a controversial free trade agreement between the United States and Colombia that Democrats oppose.
Sen. Hillary Clinton Monday questioned her Democratic rival's commitment to renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement, a charge that Sen. Barack Obama's camp called a "blatant distortion."
Organized labor has lately warmed to the Illinois Senator, and its help could be enough for him to eke out a victory in Ohio
Democrats Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama sparred with each other over negative campaigning, health care and free trade Tuesday, a week before key primaries in Texas and Ohio.
Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton exchanged sharp words over trade as they campaigned before Ohio's crucial primary.
A visibly angry Sen. Hillary Clinton lashed out Saturday at Sen. Barack Obama over campaign literature that she said he knows is "blatantly false," while Obama called her outburst "tactical."
Hundreds of thousands of farmers clogged central Mexico City Thursday with their slow-moving tractors, protesting the entry of cheap imported corn from the United States and Canada.
"We are the champions - of the world" may be the verse that rings out in stadiums across the U.S., but in the great game of global trade, Americans are increasingly feeling like the losers. A large majority - 68% - of those surveyed in a new Fortune poll says America's trading partners are benefiting the most from free trade, not the U.S. That sense of victimhood is changing America's attitude about doing business with the world.
You don't have to travel to the Democratic side of the presidential race and to hear the chords of protectionism. That was evident at yesterday's Republican presidential debate in Johnston, Iowa - the last formal verbal joust before that state's voters kick off the official race by voting in caucuses on January 3.
President Bush is cutting short his stay at this year's Asia-Pacific summit, but the fact that he's going -- at a pivotal moment in the debate over his Iraq policy -- is meant to show he's not neglecting the neighborhood.
As the capital's attention fixed on congressional maneuvering over Iraq war spending, a different drama was playing out in the offices of leading House members - one that would determine the nation's free trade path at a critical juncture.
Lou Dobbs testified today before the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and Trade. The hearing was entitled "Trade, Foreign Policy, and the American Worker." Below is the transcript of Lou's testimony.
President Bush has spent the past six days in Central and South America pushing his view that what he calls free trade is the solution for millions who live in poverty south of our border.
Victorious Democrats will, with the opening of the 110th Congress, have a historic opportunity to right the course of a country that has been hell-bent on permitting free-trade corporatists and faith-based economics to bankrupt the nation.
This Republican-led, do-nothing Congress is on its way home for a five-week vacation. I'm sure while there, they'll be glad to explain to their constituents why they need so much rest in a year in which they will work fewer than 80 days.
The dust has started to settle on President Bush's recent reshuffle of his White House team. Gone are Karl Rove and Scott McClellan. Gone too, it turns out, is President Bush's credibility as a free trader.
Staffers on Capitol Hill and in the Bush administration said Thursday it is unlikely that the Central American-Dominican Republic Free Trade Agreement will become active Jan. 1, as had been planned.
The leaders of 21 Asia-Pacific nations, including U.S. President George W. Bush, have begun their annual economic summit in South Korea with a call for the European Union to do more to break the impasse in talks on securing a global trade liberalization deal.
President Bush acknowledged Monday that it would be difficult to push any U.S.-Panama trade deal through Congress, but said getting one completed remains a top priority for his administration.
President Bush arrived Thursday night in Argentina for a summit with other leaders from across the Americas, where trade issues and fighting poverty are expected to be major topics of conversation.
President Bush said Congress members heading home for the August recess had a year of "great progress," citing, among other things, energy and Central American trade legislation.
After an all-day, full-court press by the White House, the House early Thursday narrowly approved the controversial Central America Free Trade Agreement, a pact supporters say will help strengthen fledgling democracies.
The Senate has approved a free trade pact known as CAFTA that includes five Central American countries and the Dominican Republic.
The U.S. Senate Thursday night approved a free trade pact with five Central American countries and the Dominican Republic.
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Australia and China have signed a pact to begin negotiations on a free trade agreement (FTA), with Australian Prime Minister John Howard saying Canberra recognizes China as a "market economy".
Negotiations to secure a free-trade agreement between Australia and Malaysia have begun in Canberra as the two countries mark a new step in their often troubled relationship.
The Bush administration is trying to push the Central American Free Trade Agreement through Congress quickly and quietly.
The Bush administration needs Congressional approval of the contentious Central American Free Trade Agreement, which is the top priority on its trade agenda this year.
Australian Prime Minister John Howard has agreed to controversial amendments demanded by his political opponents in a key trade deal with the United States, but warns that Washington may not accept the changes.
A landmark free trade agreement between Australia and the United States faces a political deadlock in Australia, despite U.S. President George W. Bush signing legislation in Washington to implement it.
The Supreme Court ruled unanimously Monday that the Bush administration can skip a lengthy environmental study and open U.S. roadways to Mexican trucks as soon as it wishes.
The United States and Australia have concluded a free-trade agreement, eliminating duties from virtually all trade between the two countries but keeping some crucial sectors protected.
The election year has begun, and politicians are about as apt to espouse the benefits of free trade as they are to rally against apple pie.
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