Congressman who pushed Buy American defends move

Published October 26, 2011

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...

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