Mr Pickles responded that he was "very pro trade unions" but believed that trade union activities should be carried out on a voluntary basis.
"We have been very focused in calling for a breakthrough now, " says Mary Irace, vice president of trade and export finance for the National Foreign Trade Council, a pro-trade industry group in Washington.
Lea Goldman and Quentin Hardy, the house liberals at Forbes, took the pro-trade position.
So there will be institutional restraints inhibiting any Obama move into the pro-trade camp.
And Democrats who claim to be pro-trade could, for once, be asked to prove it.
But America's pro-trade consensus will not be rebuilt without the president in the lead.
Buses seem to be a popular publicity vehicle for pro-trade groups these days.
McNERNEY: You referenced Korea and Colombia, Panama -- big, strong, pro-trade votes.
The argument was either you were pro-trade or you were anti-trade.
But there are two non-business reasons to be pro-trade: 1. the dramatic effect it can have on international diplomacy and 2. the equally dramatic effect it can have on global poverty.
Kennedy, was pro-freedom, pro-defense, pro-trade and a tax cutter.
Scott Lincicome and I even wrote a 20, 000-plus word Cato analysis explaining why the economic, geopolitical, and domestic political environment offered the president a unique opportunity to steer his party back to its pro-trade roots.
As a senator Mr Kerry was an odd mixture: he was indeed an arch liberal on social and cultural issues, but he was also a pro-trade fiscal hawk, so he has always had ties to moderate, business-friendly New Democrats.
Clinton's dilemma is that by fighting for the support of unions, she risks alienating the centrist wing of her party, which supported Bill Clinton and continues to back her, despite signs that she may have abandoned some of her husband's pro-trade positions.
One step down in glamour is the Arena Football League, a collection of 17 pro teams that trade hands at much lower prices.
Bayh, a pro-free trade Democrat, was consistently on the wrong side of economic issues that determine the fate of Great Lakes manufacturing states such as Indiana.
Meanwhile, in a sign that the pro-free trade forces were gaining ground, House and Senate negotiators reached agreement on a new trade pact which would allow African, Caribbean and Central American countries to gain greater duty-free access to US markets.
The assumption, in the U.S. as well as China, is that Obama will try to govern from the middle and adopt pro-globalization positions on trade with the Chinese.
It was a trade, a quid pro quo.
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Finally, the creep of trade protectionism is anathema to pro-growth policies.
We stand for economic policies that are pro-growth involving tax cuts and free trade.
Two dozen trade unions, environmental groups, pro-choice organisations and other usual suspects have banded together in an effort called America Votes.
The ad is jointly sponsored by Families USA, a pro-reform group, and by PhRMA, the trade association of the prescription drug industry.
Nearly every quote you read in newspapers and trade publications contains one or more of these 11 A BEACH PRO elements.
Some people in Dilbertia think the answer is trade barriers and regulations but, by and large, Dilbertia is a pro-business country.
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In return George Alogoskoufis, the new, pro-market finance minister, will hold off on reforms that Pasok-run trade unions oppose, such as full privatisation of Greece's telecoms and electricity companies.
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