The Nation - News from May 12, 1988

Democrats stepped up their challenge to President Reagan on trade, threatening an all-out fight until the November elections unless he drops his veto threat and signs a 1,000-page trade measure. “Don’t turn your back on America’s future, Mr. President, don’t give American men and women a pink slip,” Senate Majority Leader Robert C. Byrd (D-W.Va.) said at a congressional ceremony for the signing of the bill. The signing and a Capitol Hill rally held outside Democratic national headquarters were parts of a show of political muscle orchestrated by House Speaker Jim Wright (D-Tex.).