By casting the deciding votes on CAFTA,Utah's congressmen have made themselves responsible for any future attacks on U.S. gambling regulations that CAFTA makes possible.
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None of Congressman Fitzpatrick's statements about why he voted to support CAFTA make sense. His constituents deserve a straight answer even if it is an admission that he does not have the backbone to stand up to what everyone knows was extreme pressure by the Republican leadership to do as they ordered rather than what Fitzpatrick believed or promised.Lori Wallach
By acquiring Costa Rican gaming operations, giant European firms now have a platform from which to launch attacks on federal, state and local gambling restrictions in an effort to secure an even greater share of the diverse and lucrative U. S. gambling market. This is a threat that was brought to the attention of all three Utah congressmen.
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This does not bode well -- ha, ha, ha -- for Bush's trade agenda. What a tragedy. You don't take out a very effective player like Portman, who has good relations in Congress and on the international scene, when this whole agenda stands on the precipice, without knowing what that means.
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They need to go back into the existing agreement and repair the rules that limit a country's ability to have environmental safety and human rights laws.
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Forget the Valentine's Day chocolates and roses, the handful of congressional lawmakers whose startling votes for CAFTA pushed this slimy deal through Congress appear to have received campaign cash as a reward for the corporate dangerous liaisons, and many of the voters whose hearts they broke are considering permanent separations from these congressional betrayers of their interests.
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There's nothing to it, ... The actual text of the CAFTA agreement is what's binding and the text of the agreement is a catastrophe.
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