The Secretary of State no matter who it is serves at the pleasure of the President.
TPP is not Secretary Clinton's issue, it is Presidents Bush and Obama that is setting the priorities of this mess.
I know that sounds like an excuse, but, Hillary Clinton was not President during any of this burgeoning disaster to the American worker.
She was First Lady when NAFTA was being passed into law. The First Lady doesn't have a vote. Remember? She was concerned about health care and who has the best cookies in the country.
She did say this as a US Senator:
Hillary Clinton has come out against a trade pact with South Korea, but as senator, she has voted in support of free trade pacts with Oman, Chile and Singapore, even though she criticized them for what she said was their weak enforcement of international labor standards. In fact, she’s voted for every trade agreement that has come before her except CAFTA, the Central American version of NAFTA, the pact the public has heard the most about.
Source: The Contenders, by Laura Flanders, p. 17 , Nov 11, 2007
Basically, what that tells me is Secretary Clinton evaluates trade relations on a case by case basis. It doesn't sound as though she appreciates trade agreements that encompass regions of the world. It is a silly idea. No one country is the mirror of another. It should be case by case basis.
This past weekend, you expressed some disappointment that NAFTA, in your words, did not realize the benefits that it promised. How would you fix it?
A: Well, I had said that for many years, that NAFTA and the way it’s been implemented has hurt a lot of American workers. In fact, I did a study in New York looking at the impact of NAFTA on business people, workers and farmers who couldn’t get their products into Canada despite NAFTA. So, clearly we have to have a broad reform in how we approach trade. NAFTA’s a piece of it, but it’s not the only piece of it. I believe in smart trade. Pro-American trade. Trade that has labor and environmental standards, that’s not a race to the bottom but tries to lift up not only American workers but also workers around the world. It’s important that we enforce the agreements we have. That’s why I’ve called for a trade prosecutor, to make sure that we do enforce them. The Bush administration haven’t been enforcing the trade agreements at all.
Source: 2007 AFL-CIO Democratic primary forum , Aug 7, 2007
TPP is not Secretary Clinton's issue, it is Presidents Bush and Obama that is setting the priorities of this mess.
I know that sounds like an excuse, but, Hillary Clinton was not President during any of this burgeoning disaster to the American worker.
She was First Lady when NAFTA was being passed into law. The First Lady doesn't have a vote. Remember? She was concerned about health care and who has the best cookies in the country.
She did say this as a US Senator:
Hillary Clinton has come out against a trade pact with South Korea, but as senator, she has voted in support of free trade pacts with Oman, Chile and Singapore, even though she criticized them for what she said was their weak enforcement of international labor standards. In fact, she’s voted for every trade agreement that has come before her except CAFTA, the Central American version of NAFTA, the pact the public has heard the most about.
Source: The Contenders, by Laura Flanders, p. 17 , Nov 11, 2007
Basically, what that tells me is Secretary Clinton evaluates trade relations on a case by case basis. It doesn't sound as though she appreciates trade agreements that encompass regions of the world. It is a silly idea. No one country is the mirror of another. It should be case by case basis.
This past weekend, you expressed some disappointment that NAFTA, in your words, did not realize the benefits that it promised. How would you fix it?
A: Well, I had said that for many years, that NAFTA and the way it’s been implemented has hurt a lot of American workers. In fact, I did a study in New York looking at the impact of NAFTA on business people, workers and farmers who couldn’t get their products into Canada despite NAFTA. So, clearly we have to have a broad reform in how we approach trade. NAFTA’s a piece of it, but it’s not the only piece of it. I believe in smart trade. Pro-American trade. Trade that has labor and environmental standards, that’s not a race to the bottom but tries to lift up not only American workers but also workers around the world. It’s important that we enforce the agreements we have. That’s why I’ve called for a trade prosecutor, to make sure that we do enforce them. The Bush administration haven’t been enforcing the trade agreements at all.
Source: 2007 AFL-CIO Democratic primary forum , Aug 7, 2007
