CQ: Senate Challengers Put Free Trade On Trial in 2006 Campaign

Check out this CQ Weekly column about how "free" trade is going to takevcenter stage as a political issue in the battle for control of the U.S. Senate in 2006. Both parties don't want to talk about the trade issue - but challenger candidates in the heartland are forcing the issue to the forefront, using a populist message to take on pro-free-trade incumbents. The result in 2006 will be not only heightened public consciousness about how free trade policies have sold America out, but a potential shift in the free trade balance of power in the Senate that could finally force a much-needed change in America's economic policy.

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