Last night's State of the Union address by President Bush contained several policy statements about international trade, including reference to completing bi-lateral trade agreements with Colombia and Panama. The full text of the address is available at: http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2008/01/print/20080128-13.html .

These policy statements are interesting to think about in terms of our class discussion yesterday regarding the powers of each of the federal branches and efficiency issues which result from them.