91.   Both the DLC and the high-tech community are strong supporters of granting permanent normal trade relations with China.

92.   Bush grants permanent normal trade relations to China.

93.   Bush has touted the value of maintaining economic ties with China, but the recent events created converts to the faction opposing permanent normal trade relations.

94.   But for the U.S. to gain such benefits, Congress must grant China permanent normal trade relations.

95.   But supporters of the measure, which has heavy labor opposition, conceded the battle for granting China permanent normal trade relations this year remains a difficult one.

96.   But to gain those benefits for American exporters, Congress must grant China permanent normal trade relations, scrapping the annual review.

97.   Clinton gave another plug for passage of permanent normalized trade status for China, saying it was not just a matter of trade, but also of national security.

98.   Clinton is making the bill to grant permanent trade benefits to China a major foreign policy initiative of his final year in office.

99.   Clinton today was heading to Akron, Ohio, an industrial city where union members have been trying to block efforts to extend permanent normal trade relations with China.

100.   Congress must approve permanent normal trade status to benefit from the lower tariffs China has agreed to as part of its impending entry in the World Trade Organization.