The President's Internet Address
09/21/2000
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu...
We are enjoying now an unemployment rate in the Nation of under 5 percent, with over 13 million new jobs in the last 5 years.
We must also recognize that for all the dramatic expansion of trade in the last 4 1/2 years, we must take new action to move forward.
If we want to spread prosperity and open trade to support peace and democracy and freedom and free markets, we must do this.
Every President of either party has had this authority since 1974 for a very good reason.