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Pelosi Seizes Trade Agenda

By Steven T. Dennis
Roll Call Staff
April 10, 2008, Midnight

Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-Calif.) power play Wednesday to gut President Bush’s “fast-track” authority on the Colombia free-trade agreement and assert control over the deal’s future set off a political firestorm from Republicans but quickly united Democrats on both sides of the issue.

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House Majority Leader Eric Cantor leaves the podium after speaking to reporters at the Republican National Committee following a House Republican Conference meeting at the Capitol Hill Club on Feb. 7.

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