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Key Democrats go centrist, support trade; Some in Congress break with party, unions; use swing votes to win on other issues.(New York Economy)
Crain's New York Business, June, 2004
A decade after New York City's Democratic Congressional delegation voted nearly en bloc against the North American Free Trade Agreement, a substantial minority has turned centrist, sometimes breaking with the liberal wing of the Democratic Party to support free trade. The clearest sign of the new centrist stance came last year.
Even as anxiety mounted over job losses, which reached their peak of nearly 2.5 million in late 2003, half of New York's 14 Democrats in Congress-Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Charles Schumer; and Reps. Joseph Crowley, D-Queens, Gregory Meeks, D-Queens, Anthony Weiner, D-Brooklyn, Carolyn Maloney, D-Manhattan, and Charles Rangel, D-Manhattan-broke with most of the party and unions to vote for trade agreements with Chile and...
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