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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s recent efforts to kill the Columbia Free Trade Agreement shows why electing a Democrat to the presidency and maintaining the party’s congressional majority this November would give Big Labor the most clout it’s had since Jimmy Carter wore cardigans and adjusted thermostats in the White House. Pelosi began plotting her unprecedented rules change to freeze action on the trade pact in January. Her boast that delaying a vote gives House Democrats “leverage” is a prime example of how she and her party pander to Big Labor, still among the most powerful of special interests despite years of declining membership nationwide. And Big Labor demands a concrete return on its long years of heavy financial investment in Democratic incumbents in Congress, primarily in the form of new laws that benefit union chieftains.

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