Schwab blasts Pelosi

U.S. Trade Representative Susan Schwab this afternoon condemned House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for her scuttling of a trade pact with Colombia, saying she is hurting U.S. workers over nothing more than partisan politics. "Delaying the vote on the Colombia [Free Trade Agreement] does not create one American job, it does not put one more dollar in anyones pocket, does not save one life, does not help one union to organize, or protect one endangered species"

[but if Pelosi lets the House vote on it it's passage will be (correctly) seen as a 'Bush win'. can't have that; party before nation]

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