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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: D. Long who wrote (36239)8/7/2002 5:31:53 AM
From: LindyBill  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
From "Reason", comments on the Fast Track given to Bush

2. Fast Tracking

In a tiny step on the road to normalcy, Congress gave the president the "fast track" trade negotiation authority the chief executive has lacked since 1994. With it, President Bush has the authority to draft trade deals that Congress must still approve, but cannot change.

Without that provision, negotiating trade agreements with the U.S. is pretty pointless, since you can count on a minimum of 535 changes before it's ratified.

Farm state representatives, even Democrats, were eager to give Bush fast track authority. If he hacks out some deals, they hope, their constituents might cut into America's trade decline by shipping out some foodstuffs. This hints that a quid pro quo was at the heart of Bush's support for the bloated farm bill that committed the U.S. to billions more in farm subsidies over the coming years. After all, all that government cheese has to end up somewhere.

Fast track and successful rounds of base closings (which featured lists that had to voted up or down in their entirety) both operate on the interesting premise that the only way to get Congress to do something is to get it to agree in advance to do nothing.

Maybe it is time to try that with Social Security and the tax code
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