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Jack Reed: “I again agree wholeheartedly with the Senator. It is a situation in which, when we go to table, we have direct…”

On the recordNovember 8, 1997
I again agree wholeheartedly with the Senator. It is a situation in which, when we go to table, we have direct one-on-one negotiations, when we have as our leverage more liberal entry into our market, the largest market in the world, when we in fact have all of the force and the power behind these types of negotiations, we simply say we are not interested in the environment. Yet, when we go to international conferences, we say how not only must we all collectively clean up the environment, this Senate weeks ago said, by the way, the developing world, the world which will be the parties to the bilateral agreements, they must do their share because we can't do it alone.
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Jack Reed
Democratic · Rhode Island

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Discussing environmental concerns in trade negotiations.

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