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On the recordJuly 16, 2009
The Administration and Congress should, I believe, immediately move away from our decades of misguided trade policies and demand trade agreements that have meaningful labor and environmental standards and forbid illegal subsidies and currency manipulation.
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Chuck Schumer
Democratic · New York

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Calls for a shift in trade policies to include labor and environmental standards.

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