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Rep Bob Ney (R) Ohio, under very strong pressure from the Bush administration, bravely voted against CAFTA as a tool of Globalization.
CAFTA is symbolic of a new kind of trade where the workers are the commodities and not the products. We praise Rep Bob Ney
for his courage.
The Cleveland Plain Dealer in a lead editorial praises Rep Steve LaTourette (R) Ohio for voting for CAFTA. Rep Steve
LaTourette is in denial about the vast poverty Free Trade has caused in this District and should be voted out of office.
July 2005, CAFTA unfair trade agreement passes by only 2 votes. Rep. Walter B Jones (R)NC, voted against it and says CAFTA
is ugly NAFTA. (Click on picture below to find out how NAFTA was passed).
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| Rep Walter B Jones (R) NC - He voted against it. |
15 Democrat in Congress voted for CAFTA, 27 Republicans in Congress voted against it. It won by only 2 votes.
Here are the Democrat Representatives who voted for it. They evidently do not care about the American workers and human
dignity in the workday.
They joined in the Pearl Harbor attack on the American Dream and workers in 2005......
Melissa Bean IL
Jim Cooper TX
Henry Cuellar TX
Norm Dicks WA
Ruben Hinojosa TX
William Jefferson LA
Jim Matheson UT
Greg Meeks NY
Dennis Moore KS
Jim Moran VA
Solomon Ortiz TX
Ike Skelton MO
Vic Snyder AR
John Tanner TN
Ed Towns NY
(Both Senators in our State voted for it - Senator George Voinovich & Senator Mike DeWine )
Congressman Ron Paul, R TX, stated after the vote....
"Leaving aside the arguments for or against CAFTA itself, the process by which the bill passed should sicken every
American who believes in reprsentative government.....One of my colleages estimated that the price tag for buying the CAFTA
vote will be at least $50 billion dollars - that's $50 billion dollars to win a vote."
(It must always be remmembered too that it was a Democrat President - Clinton - and a Democrat controlled Congress that
passed NAFTA and GATT. GATT was passed in a lame duck session of Congress even though the 'Contract with America' Republicans
won control of the House. The question to ask is this. Why didn't President Clinton wait for the 'Contract with America Republicans'
to take office in January and let them vote on this critical issue that was anti-workers.)
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