26 October 2011

Congressman who pushed Buy American defends move

The American lawmaker who may have stoked the fire of a potential Canada-US trade war is defending his efforts in the wake of a fresh crop of cross-border disputes.

Democrat Chris Murphy, who represents Connecticut's 5th congressional district, originally wrote to United States President Barack Obama on Sept. 7 urging him to insert a Buy American provision in his administration's $447-billion American Jobs Act that would shut out foreign firms.(...more)