caa a22 4500 477078680 CHVBK 20180405111445.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170330e19960401xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF00151728 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF00151728 Kahane Leo Department of Economics, California State University, 94542, Hayward, CA, U.S.A. aut Senate voting patterns on the 1991 extension of the fast-track trade procedures: Prelude to NAFTA [Elektronische Daten] [Leo Kahane] In 1991 then-President George Bush requested an extension of fast-track procedures from Congress for the primary purpose of negotiating a North American Free Trade Agreement. This paper uses an econometric model to test the importance of three themes related to NAFTA that surfaced during Senate debates over whether to approve the request, that of employment effects, environmental effects and the impact on immigration from Mexico. The empirical results show that expected job gains and losses were significant in explaining Senate voting patterns on fast-track extension. Immigration was found to be somewhat important, but environmental issues were not found to statistically significant. In addition, the impact of organized labor and political ideology as proxied by political party were found to be important factors that shaped Senate voting patterns on fast-track. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1996 Public Choice Kluwer Academic Publishers; gopher://gopher.wkap.nl 87/1-2(1996-04-01), 35-53 0048-5829 87:1-2<35 1996 87 11127 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00151728 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00151728 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Kahane Leo Department of Economics, California State University, 94542, Hayward, CA, U.S.A aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Public Choice Kluwer Academic Publishers; gopher://gopher.wkap.nl/ 87/1-2(1996-04-01), 35-53 0048-5829 87:1-2<35 1996 87 11127 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer