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Wall Street Journal: Give Us Time to Assess Colombia Free Trade Pact
03/18/2008
To the Editor:
The proposed Colombia Free Trade Agreement involves many
complex issues; your paper's one-sided attack ("The Chavez
Democrats," Review & Outlook, March 10) is therefore disappointing.
Speaker Pelosi has spent most of her two decades in Congress
working to expand human rights around the globe and has been crystal clear in
her views of Mr. Chavez's record of abuses, strong arm tactics, and outrageous
statements.
Similarly well-documented is her commitment to free and fair
trade in order to expand markets for U.S. businesses, farmers and workers. To
that end, the speaker and House Ways and Means Chairman Charles Rangel launched
bipartisan discussions last spring to resuscitate a stalled trade agenda. This
resulted in a strong bipartisan vote on the U.S.-Peru Free Trade Agreement last
November.
Rep. Howard Berman
Chairman
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Washington