Connie Mack: Obama Needs to Get Serious About Free-Trade Agreements

From his perch as chairman of the U.S. House Western Hemisphere Subcommittee, Florida RepublicanConnie Mack went to bat on Wednesday for three free-trade agreements currently stalled in Washington.

Mack noted that U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk noted on Monday that Colombia had met all labor rights requirements and called for the Obama administration to get serious in pushing the agreements.

Now that President Santos and Colombia have successfully met the milestones in the action plan, it is vital that President Obama sends forward the Colombia, Panama, and South Korea free-trade agreements to Congress, said Mack.Despite claims they are moving ahead with the agreements, Congress has only gotten lip service from the president. Combined with side-stepping visits to our allies in Latin America on his recent travels to Latin America, President Obamas delaying tactics regarding the FTA's are hurting our economy while simply making a bad situation worse with our allies in the region.