61.   Los Angeles-area business leaders hailed the congressional vote Wednesday approving permanent normal trade relations with China.

62.   Liberal Democrats joined conservative Republicans to oppose renewal of normal trade ties, and Christian right groups sided with labor unions in their opposition.

63.   Most favored status is an anachronistic misnomer, because all it means is that normal trade relations will be maintained with the nation granted such recognition.

64.   Munro and I expressed skepticism about the belief that normal trade and cultural relations with China would make China more democratic and friendlier to the United States.

65.   No sooner did Congress grant permanent normal trade status to China in September than the WTO talks broke down in angry exchanges and accusations.

66.   Opponents argued that the nation should hold China accountable for human rights violations by withholding normal trade status.

67.   Opponents of permanent normal trade relations are ceding nothing.

68.   Pelosi has been known for her opposition to normal trade relations with China, and for hard service on the ethics committee when it was investigating Speaker Newt Gingrich.

69.   Pelosi helped lead the unsuccessful effort in the House to block permanent normal trade relations with China.

70.   Porter said it was clear that, in the end, normal trade status would not be revoked.