21.   AFL-CIO leaders emerged from a meeting with the vice president convinced that Gore would place more safeguards for labor and the environment in trade pacts than President Clinton has.

22.   Buchanan has said, if elected, he would move quickly to wipe out trade pacts such as the North American Free Trade Agreement.

23.   Bush has said he needs it to present the hemispheric trade pact to Congress for a vote without possibility of amendment.

24.   Businesses ranging from financial-services giants to telecommunications startups are likely to benefit from the trade pact that passed the US Senate Tuesday.

25.   Business supporters of the trade pact are lobbying GOP allies to support immediate approval of the legislation.

26.   But Dole surely has seen studies showing that the trade pact is likely to raise revenues by triggering economic growth and, thereby, raising tax collections.

27.   But he also argued far more clearly than he has before that an agreement on the flow of migratory workers was a necessary complement to the trade pact.

28.   But he has said that any trade pacts in a Gore administration would include labor and environmental agreements, not as side deals but as part of the pacts.

29.   But the difficulties he faces were on full display even as the House approved by voice vote a trade pact with Jordan on Tuesday.

30.   But until the trade pact lowered or eliminated tariffs, exports to the United States carried a premium.