Jefferson Predicts About 20 Dems Will Join Him For CAFTA.

The article reports that a leading Democrat in the U.S. who supports the Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) said on Tuesday he expects close to 20 Democrats to vote in favor of the trade pact. William Jefferson said the strength of Democratic support for the CAFTA might be comparable to the number of Democrats who supported trade negotiating authority legislation in 2001. Jefferson said he was disappointed that most Democrats are opposing the CAFTA, despite what he claimed were the strictest labor provisions of any trade pact to date. He noted that Democrats had worked to include enforceable labor standards in trade agreements from the North American Free Trade Agreement through the Jordan agreement until now.