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American Prospect, The, September, 2002 by Polakow-Suransky, Sasha
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ON DEC. 6, 2001, UNDER rhetorical pressure from Speaker Dennis Hastert ("Support our president, who is fighting a courageous war on terrorism.") and real pressure from the administration and corporate America, members of the House of Representatives passed a bill granting the president fast-track trade-promotion authority by a single vote: 215-to-214.
The bill would not have passed without the unheralded defection of several centrist Democrats--most prominently, Rep. Susan Davis (D-Calif.), who just the previous November had ousted the Republican incumbent in her San ...
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