Broder again claimed that Bush's predecessors "have enjoyed" fast-track authority

Published: August 13, 2007, 3:40 pm

Tags: the washington post, economic issues

In his August 12 nationally syndicated Washington Post column, on the "Free Trade Divide" between President Bush and Democrats, David Broder asserted: "The House leadership cavalierly denied his request for the kind of 'fast-track' negotiating authority that past presidents have enjoyed." Broder was discussing the refusal of Democrats in Congress to renew Bush's trade promotion authority (formerly referred to as "fast-track authority"), which expired on June 30. But in fact, as Media Matters for America noted the last time Broder claimed that Bush's "predecessors have enjoyed" that authority, President Clinton was deprived of trade promotion authority for the majority of his time in office after it expired in 1994 during his first term. While the Clinton administration proposed a reauthorization of fast-track trade authority during the 104th and 105th Congresses, it was denied by the Republican-controlled Congress. The authority was not renewed by Congress

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