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Trade Revolt Against Obama Intensifies

HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 05.24.2012

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WASHINGTON -- Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) introduced legislation late Wednesday to protest the Obama administration's refusal to share information about c...

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Issa Leaks Secret Document To Pressure Obama On Trade Deal

HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 05.16.2012

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WASHINGTON -- House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) has taken the unprecedented step of leaking a secret U.S. trade document, in ...

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Congress Revolts On Obama Plan That Would Ban 'Buy American'

HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 05.03.2012

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WASHINGTON -- A group of 68 House Democrats and one Republican sent a letter to President Barack Obama on Thursday urging him to reconsider an element...

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House Republicans Continue to Block Commonsense Make It In America Policies

Rep. John Garamendi | Posted 12.26.2011

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Citizens of all political stripes have wondered what this Congress has been up to. Here is a quick recap.

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President Obama is Right: We Need to Create American Jobs Now

Rep. John Garamendi | Posted 05.25.2011

With his State of the Union address, President Obama delivered an important message that Congress and the American people need to hear: our nation'...

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Investment & Enterprise, Not Protectionism

Tom Vander Ark | Posted 05.25.2011

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India is building infrastructure and encouraging private enterprise. The US should invest and partner, not ignore and protect. We run the risk of becoming less relevant in Southeast Asia -- and the world.

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Senators to Obama: Stop Sending Clean Energy Jobs Abroad

Scott Paul | Posted 05.25.2011

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Four Democratic Senators want to ensure that tax dollars are creating clean energy manufacturing jobs in America, not China. Now, they are under vigorous attack by the Obama Administration and multinational companies, many of whom have heavily subsidized operations in Europe and Asia.

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Steele Blasts Buy America For Being Too Weak, but GOP Opposed Buy America

Mike Elk | Posted 05.25.2011

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Steele's criticism is interesting because stimulus money going to overseas firms was the direct result of conservative opposition to attempts to keep that money in America

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Obama Freeze Forfeits America's Future

Steve Clemons | Posted 05.25.2011

Obama's plan to unveil tonight a non-defense discretionary spending freeze for the next three years will essentially forfeit America's growth future to China. The President, one year into his job, and still dealing with the tail winds of the worst economic disaster in global markets and the U.S. economy since the Great Depression, is saying that he is going to freeze spending on virtually everything but the wars we have on hand. America needs to invest in itself.

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Still Campaigning

Sen. Fritz Hollings | Posted 05.25.2011

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The president's time is limited, and he's got no time like a member of Congress for hit-and-run needs. He has to lead for the real needs of the country.

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Obama Struggles To Resurrect American Manufacturing

nytimes.com | LOUIS UCHITELLE | Posted 05.25.2011

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If the Obama administration has a strategy for reviving manufacturing, Douglas Bartlett would like to know what it is. Buffeted by foreign competiti...

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Time to End the Inquisition against Buy America Advocates

Scott Paul | Posted 05.25.2011

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It's time to end the intolerant theocracy of free trade and usher in a responsible dialogue about what works and what doesn't work. Get out of the gutter and into the debate.

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Trade War Brewing Over Obama's "Buy American" Policy

Huffington Post via The Times | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Times (UK) reports on a brewing trade war between the EU and the US over President Obama's "Buy American" remarks: The European Union warned the ...

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EU Warns Obama Over Stimulus

Times Online | Rory Watson, Brussels | Posted 05.25.2011

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The European Union warned the United States today that attempts to enshrine "Buy America" conditions in the country's economic rescue package could fu...

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