{"id":1493,"date":"2005-07-27T21:08:00","date_gmt":"2005-07-27T21:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sustainablog.greenoptions.com\/2005\/07\/27\/cafta-vote-tonight\/"},"modified":"2005-07-27T21:08:00","modified_gmt":"2005-07-27T21:08:00","slug":"cafta-vote-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/cafta-vote-tonight\/","title":{"rendered":"CAFTA Vote Tonight?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/mojoblog\/archives\/2005\/07\/cafta_at_midnig.html\">MoJo blog<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This certainly isn&#8217;t good news\u2014Mark Goldberg of the <i>American Prospect<\/i> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prospect.org\/web\/page.ww?section=root&amp;name=ViewWeb&amp;articleId=10049\">reports<\/a> that the House leadership plans to ram CAFTA through the House late tonight, despite the fact that a majority of the chamber opposes to the treaty. That squares with what Reuters <a href=\"http:\/\/today.reuters.com\/investing\/financeArticle.aspx?type=bondsNews&amp;storyID=2005-07-27T161751Z_01_N27257994_RTRIDST_0_TRADE-CAFTA-USA-UPDATE-1.XML\">is reporting<\/a>: &#8220;[House Majority Leader Tom] DeLay said Republicans would gavel the CAFTA vote to a close &#8220;when we get 218,&#8221; the number of votes needed for approval.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course, this wouldn&#8217;t be the first time Tom DeLay and cronies have tried this tactic. Since I haven&#8217;t discussed CAFTA much (I&#8217;m pretty sure <a href=\"http:\/\/sustainablog.blogspot.com\/2005\/06\/where-are-big-conservation-groups-on.html\">this<\/a> is the only post I&#8217;ve published about it), I did a bit of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=CAFTA+environment&amp;sourceid=mozilla-search&amp;start=0&amp;start=0&amp;ie=utf-8&amp;oe=utf-8&amp;client=firefox-a&amp;rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official\">searching<\/a>.  Here&#8217;s some of the better items I found on CAFTA&#8217;s potential environmental impact:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalexchange.org\/campaigns\/cafta\/Environment.html\">Global Exchange: Environmental Impacts of CAFTA<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.citizen.org\/trade\/cafta\/environment\/\">Public Citizen: CAFTA and the Environment<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sierraclub.org\/trade\/cafta\/faces_of_cafta\/\">Sierra Club: The Faces of CAFTA<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> Again, in the interest of presenting all side, the <a href=\"http:\/\/trade.businessroundtable.org\/trade_2005\/cafta_dr\/myths.html\">Business Roundtable<\/a> is in favor of CAFTA&#8230; Imagine that&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Need you Representatives phone number?  Find it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.house.gov\/house\/MemberWWW.shtml\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Technorati tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/CAFTA\" rel=\"tag\">CAFTA<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/House+of+Representatives\" rel=\"tag\">House of Representatives<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/sneaky%20bastards\" rel=\"tag\">sneaky bastards<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the MoJo blog: This certainly isn&#8217;t good news\u2014Mark Goldberg of the American Prospect reports that the House leadership plans to ram CAFTA through the House late tonight, despite the&nbsp;[ &hellip; ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>CAFTA Vote Tonight? 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