Pelosi makes push

-House Speaker pushes for change to avoid free-trade deal with Columbia.

The House will change rules to avoid a required vote on a free-trade agreement with Columbia, said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
"If the president wants us to consider a Columbia free-trade agreement, which we are pleased and responsible to do, we cannot consider that unless we address the economic insecurity of America's working families," Pelosi said.
The change would remove the timetable imposed on Congress, she said. The timetable says Congress has 90 days to pick up a trade bill after receiving it from the White House. Pelosi will bring the proposal to the House on Thursday.

1. Pelosi makes her move
http://www.theleftshue.com/2008/04/pelosi-makes-move-on-columbia-free.html
2. Trade Pact sent to Congress
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/B/BUSH_COLOMBIA?SITE=KMIZTV&SECTION=ELECTION06&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2008-04-07-23-39-15
3. House delay Columbia vote
http://www.kneb.com/news/agricultural/197ff0fd-82d4-49c1-8861-8cc4ed85c0d9
4. Economic security threatened
http://www.kneb.com/news/agricultural/197ff0fd-82d4-49c1-8861-8cc4ed85c0d9