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Title: Bill Clinton Signed NAFTA, Right? WRONG
Source: Democratic Underground
URL Source: [None]
Published: Sep 12, 2007
Author: Some DU'er
Post Date: 2007-09-12 16:03:18 by ghostdogtxn
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Views: 2062
Comments: 6

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#3. To: ghostdogtxn (#0) (Edited)

Bush père signed the NAFTA agreement, as an agreement. To become effective as law, it still needed the approval of Congress. Eventually, after modifications, Clinton submitted it to Congress as an Act of Congress to be passed as such (if he had submitted it as a treaty for Senate ratification, it would have required a two-thirds majority in the Senate. As it was, simple majorities in both Houses of Congress sufficed.) After both Houses of Congress passed it as a bill, Clinton signed it into law. (If he had vetoed it, it would have taken two-thirds majorities in both Houses to override his veto. NAFTA didn't get a two-thirds majority in either House, and the vote in the House of Representatives was rather close, 234-200.)

I'm not the only one who believes that the Powers That Be saw to it that Clinton was elected president in '92, precisely because they thought a pro- NAFTA Democrat like Clinton could get it through the then-Democratic Congress, whereas a Republican president like Bush père could not.

aristeides  posted on  2007-09-12   16:50:33 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

#5. To: aristeides (#3) (Edited)

I believe an agreement needs a simple majority vote, whereas a treaty (which NAFTA actually is) needs a two-thirds majority vote. SO they suckered us on this also.

Jethro Tull  posted on  2007-09-12 20:37:53 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

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