DeLauro: Congress has a ‘window’ to reclaim trade policy from corporations

The time is right in Washington to “take on” corporate power, including by disrupting corporations’ longtime strategy of using trade negotiations to pre-empt regulation, Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) argued this week -- while warning that the “window” to do so won’t stay open forever. DeLauro, a longstanding critic of neoliberal trade policies, was one of the key Democratic negotiators to usher the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement, which she voted for, through Congress about 25 years after the North American Free Trade Agreement,...