Stuart E. Eizenstat, head of the international
practice at Covington & Burling LLP, held several senior positions in the Clinton
administration, including U.S. Ambassador to the EU, Undersecretary of State, and
Deputy Secretary of the Treasury, and he was President Jimmy Carter's Chief Domestic
Policy Adviser from 1977 to 1981. Marney L. Cheek is Special Counsel at Covington
& Burling LLP and was Associate General Counsel at the Office of the U.S. Trade
Representative from 2003 to 2005.
Last November, the U.S. electorate sent a clear message to President George W. Bush and the new Democratic congressional leadership: work together to deal with the nation's challenges. Few issues depend on bipartisanship as much as trade policy, an area that has been plagued by bitter disagreement between the Democratic Party and the Republican Party during the first six years of the Bush presidency.
As of this writing, Democrats on the Senate and House trade committees and U.S. Trade Representative Susan Schwab were in the process of negotiating critical trade and labor issues. A breakthrough is possible, but
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