The top U.S. Democratic lawmaker for trade rejected a Bush administration proposal on how to treat labor standards in free-trade agreements with countries such as Peru and Colombia. A plan by the U.S. Trade Representative's office to allow trade partners to adhere to either international labor standards or U.S. labor law ``misses the point'' of Democrats' long- standing demands, said Representative Sander Levin... [Democrats] have demanded that trade accords include provisions that participating countries follow [core] standards of the International Labor Organization...