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House Democrats finalizing trade plan for Bush (Reuters)
Filed: March 26th 2007: US

A Panamanian coffee farmer in a file photo. Senior Democrats in the House of Representatives are wrapping up a proposal to revamp labor and other provisions of free trade agreements with Peru, Colombia and Panama that the Bush administration has been pushing to get approved, congressional aides said on Monday. (Alberto Lowe/Reuters)Reuters - Senior Democrats in the U.S. House
of Representatives are wrapping up a proposal to revamp labor
and other provisions of free trade agreements with Peru,
Colombia and Panama that the Bush administration has been
pushing to get approved, congressional aides said on Monday.

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