51. Eizenstat was praised by aides and friends for having a mind for the mind-numbing minutiae of trade policy but who can also see the bigger picture. 52. Everyone claims expertise on welfare reform, trade policy and Medicare, but defense policy is seen as, well, rocket science. 53. Federal trade policy. 54. Florio has hammered away at Corzine on trade policy, corporate mergers and government borrowing. 55. For example, the lumber duties were vital to Montana Democrat Max Baucus, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, which oversees trade policy. 56. From there, on an abbreviated bus tour, Buchanan went to a carpet factory in LaGrange, southwest of here, where he trumpeted his protectionist trade policies. 57. Gore talked fluently about agricultural trade policy, countercyclical crop payments, and the reason the bottom has fallen out of the hog market. 58. Gore indirectly took on Gephardt over trade policy as well, calling for Congress to grant President Clinton renewed flexibility to negotiate future trade agreements. 59. He also founded two groups, the Positive Futures Network and the People-Centered Development Forum, that advocate changes in global trade policy and corporate conduct. 60. He tours Seacoast in N.H., blasts US trade policy. |
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