President Obama was right to make enforcement of those trade rules a priority and his creation, today, of a Trade Enforcement Unit is a massive step in the right direction.
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To open up new markets and create American jobs, we need to make global bilateral free trade agreements a priority as they were under the Clinton administration.
Trying to decipher where President Obama really stands on free trade can be like trying to trace the U.S.-Mexico border with a Google map. There are words, and there are actions - but there is mostly that long squiggly line in between.
I happen to agree with many of President Obama's policies, but in our system, it is often as important how you do something as what you do.
If we want an international trade deal that advances the interests of our own people, then perhaps we don't need a 'fast-track' but a regular track: where the president sends us any proposal he deems worthy, and we review it on its own merits.
I think Obama is right when he talks about the rule of law as a cornerstone of what the United States should stand for.
From the day he first walked through the door of the Oval Office, President Obama's top priority has been growing our economy, creating good jobs, and rebuilding middle class security.
It's been years, decades, since a president has lost a major trade initiative. That would be bad headlines.
Financial regulatory reform is one of the top legislative priorities of the Obama Administration.
Trade means jobs, but trade also means security. The time has come for all of us to urge the swift adoption of the Trans Pacific Partnership.
The American people deserve to know exactly which laws the Obama Administration is refusing to enforce and why.