21.   Gingrich and Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole, R-Kan., suggested that action on the GATT trade treaty could be put off until next year.

22.   He also vowed to fight new trade treaties unless they provided solid protections for workers.

23.   He wants to end foreign aid, scrap the North American Free Trade Agreement and other trade treaties, and tax imports.

24.   If anything is accomplished, it will be by peer pressure rather than by a legally binding trade treaty or agreement.

25.   If Congress denies him the new powers, Clinton said, other nations will negotiate trade treaties that could exclude the United States.

26.   In his first term he won over moderate Republicans to push through the North American Free Trade Agreement and the global trade treaty that created the World Trade Organization.

27.   In that context, the trade treaty, which was preceded by reforms opening Mexico to foreign investment, seems almost certainly to have saved Mexico from meltdown.

28.   Labor unions have persuaded many traditional allies in the Democratic Party that fast trade treaties encourage US companies to cut wages and move jobs overseas.

29.   Lawmakers have refused to give Clinton expanded powers to negotiate trade treaties, even though four previous presidents had those same powers.

30.   Nafta groups Canada, the U.S. and Mexico in a trade treaty.