The one thing that I have been struck with, after coming here to Congress is, how many people in Washington, D.C. talk about job loss like they are t….

Hey, I'm a former union president myself and also an attorney that represented a lot of unions..

I am told that the clinical definition of insanity is the tendency to do the same thing over and over again and expect different results..

The biggest share of U.S. exports to the six CAFTA nations is not the traditional job-creation kind. These are products that are not consumed in the ….

If you consider that a typical Central American consumer earns only a small fraction of an average American worker's wages, it becomes clear that CAF….

Since NAFTA was put in place, Mexico has lost 1.9 million jobs and most Mexicans' real wages have fallen..

Amnesty International continues to report that extra judicial tortures and murders continue. This is not democracy that we are exporting to Mexico, a….

Trade reform has also been linked to increased income disparity as skilled workers have captured more benefits from globalization than their unskille….

Likewise, free trade does not, as evidenced in CAFTA, mean fair trade..

Instead of trade policy that is beneficial to American businesses and workers as well as our trade partners, we have a flawed trade policy that hurts….

Proponents of the Central America Free Trade Agreement have conveniently ignored this fundamental fact: the effect of trade on incomes in Central Ame….

Average real wages in Mexican manufacturing are lower than they were 10 years ago, if you can believe that..

I always thought a very strong anti-drug policy was a good thing for my union members..

Free trade should not mean free labor..