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Trans-Pacific Partnership Protest on Capitol Hill
Trans-Pacific Partnership Protests on Capitol Hill
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Lucky_Lefty
Dreams Are Colder Than Death...
Should have his ass kicked for telling that man "he doesn't repre his people correctly". That guy Should've hit him with that Bane "then why are you people here" line
newworldafro
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http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/may/22/senate-passes-free-trade-bill-house-bigger-hurdle/
Obama's prestige rests with wary house after big win after big win from Senate on trade authority.
By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times - Friday, May 22, 2015
The first major free trade bill in years is headed for the House, where passage of a bill to grant President Obama
powers to conclude a Pacific trade deal faces a stiffer challenge than the one just overcome in the Senate.
Although more than a dozen pro-trade Democratic senators linked arms with most Republicans to grant Mr. Obama a major legislative victory in the upper chamber on a 62-37 vote, Democrats in the House are less inclined toward free
trade and Republicans in the chamber are even more suspicious of granting Mr. Obama any broad powers.
But Friday’s vote was a substantial victory for Mr. Obama
, who staked his personal prestige on winning a legacy-enhancing trade deal known as the Trans-Pacific Partnership. The vote was on fast-track negotiating powers, known as Trade Promotion Authority, that will allow Mr. Obama to complete negotiations on the 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership.
“It’s been a long time coming,” Sen. Orrin G. Hatch, the Utah Republican who led the fight for Trade Promotion Authority, said just ahead of the vote on what he called “likely the most important bill we’ll pass this year.”
Trade Promotion Authority lays out the conditions for Mr. Obama to complete negotiations on the Trans-Pacific Partnership and any other trade deals. It sets environmental and labor standards and sets a period for Congress to consider and vote on whatever final agreement the president submits.
The Senate vote was anticlimactic. The big test was a few hours earlier on an amendment that would have injected language into the fast-track powers requiring the administration to punish other countries deemed guilty of keeping their currency artificially low versus the dollar in order to gain an export advantage.
A lower-value currency makes a country’s exports more attractive to others and makes imports less attractive to its own consumers.
If the provision was approved, Mr. Obama said, he would have been forced to veto the fast-track trade bill he is desperately seeking from Congress because it would scuttle chances for a Pacific free trade pact.
But senators granted his wish in a 51-48 vote by defeating an effort to add the language and preserving the core of the fast-track trade deal.
Sen. Ron Wyden, the Oregon Democrat who organized the pro-trade members of his party during debate, said this deal is better than previous fast-track bills and insists on better terms for the U.S. than previous agreements such as the North American Free Trade Agreement, or NAFTA.
He said too much secrecy has been surrounding negotiations over the Trans-Pacific Partnership but that the fast-track bill would require nearly four months for the public and Congress to review it or any other final trade deal before it is put up for a vote.
Opponents said they aren’t convinced that this version would produce any better outcome than NAFTA or other previous deals.
“Tonight’s vote is a massive blow to workers and businesses
across the country,” said Sen. Debbie Stabenow, Michigan Democrat.
The trade fight is as much a test of Mr. Obama’s legislative powers as it is of support for trade. The president has made the fight personal by taking on major liberal figures such as Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Massachusetts Democrat. Mr. Obama also has pleaded with his liberal base to trust that he can pursue free trade the right way.
“If done right, these agreements are vital to expanding opportunities for the middle class, leveling the playing field for American workers, and establishing rules for the global
economy that help our businesses grow and hire by selling goods Made in America to the rest of the world,” he said after Friday’s vote.
Obama's prestige rests with wary house after big win after big win from Senate on trade authority.
By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times - Friday, May 22, 2015
The first major free trade bill in years is headed for the House, where passage of a bill to grant President Obama
powers to conclude a Pacific trade deal faces a stiffer challenge than the one just overcome in the Senate.Although more than a dozen pro-trade Democratic senators linked arms with most Republicans to grant Mr. Obama a major legislative victory in the upper chamber on a 62-37 vote, Democrats in the House are less inclined toward free
trade and Republicans in the chamber are even more suspicious of granting Mr. Obama any broad powers.But Friday’s vote was a substantial victory for Mr. Obama
, who staked his personal prestige on winning a legacy-enhancing trade deal known as the Trans-Pacific Partnership. The vote was on fast-track negotiating powers, known as Trade Promotion Authority, that will allow Mr. Obama to complete negotiations on the 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership.“It’s been a long time coming,” Sen. Orrin G. Hatch, the Utah Republican who led the fight for Trade Promotion Authority, said just ahead of the vote on what he called “likely the most important bill we’ll pass this year.”
Trade Promotion Authority lays out the conditions for Mr. Obama to complete negotiations on the Trans-Pacific Partnership and any other trade deals. It sets environmental and labor standards and sets a period for Congress to consider and vote on whatever final agreement the president submits.
The Senate vote was anticlimactic. The big test was a few hours earlier on an amendment that would have injected language into the fast-track powers requiring the administration to punish other countries deemed guilty of keeping their currency artificially low versus the dollar in order to gain an export advantage.
A lower-value currency makes a country’s exports more attractive to others and makes imports less attractive to its own consumers.
If the provision was approved, Mr. Obama said, he would have been forced to veto the fast-track trade bill he is desperately seeking from Congress because it would scuttle chances for a Pacific free trade pact.
But senators granted his wish in a 51-48 vote by defeating an effort to add the language and preserving the core of the fast-track trade deal.
Sen. Ron Wyden, the Oregon Democrat who organized the pro-trade members of his party during debate, said this deal is better than previous fast-track bills and insists on better terms for the U.S. than previous agreements such as the North American Free Trade Agreement, or NAFTA.
He said too much secrecy has been surrounding negotiations over the Trans-Pacific Partnership but that the fast-track bill would require nearly four months for the public and Congress to review it or any other final trade deal before it is put up for a vote.
Opponents said they aren’t convinced that this version would produce any better outcome than NAFTA or other previous deals.
“Tonight’s vote is a massive blow to workers and businesses
across the country,” said Sen. Debbie Stabenow, Michigan Democrat.The trade fight is as much a test of Mr. Obama’s legislative powers as it is of support for trade. The president has made the fight personal by taking on major liberal figures such as Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Massachusetts Democrat. Mr. Obama also has pleaded with his liberal base to trust that he can pursue free trade the right way.
“If done right, these agreements are vital to expanding opportunities for the middle class, leveling the playing field for American workers, and establishing rules for the global
economy that help our businesses grow and hire by selling goods Made in America to the rest of the world,” he said after Friday’s vote.
The coli heads are quickly to by-pass one of most important issues in their lives.
newworldafro
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Its not just coli heads...................................its just ....................... the people
newworldafro
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http://www.breitbart.com/big-govern...-petitions-delivered-to-congress-to-stop-tpp/
WE THE PEOPLE: 2 MILLION PETITIONS DELIVERED TO CONGRESS TO STOP TPP
Members of the House and the Senate delivered 2 million petitions to Congress, opposing the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and Trade Promotion Authority (TPA).
The ranking Democrat of the Senate Committee on Veterans Affairs, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), says that “if there is ever a time in American history that we have got to stand up for the American worker and not for corporate greed—today is that day and the TPP is that issue. The facts are very clear… the TPP follows in the footsteps of other disastrous trade agreements.” Sanders adds:
Over and over again—we were told by corporate America and their representatives about all of the jobs that these trade agreements would create. And over and over again… the proponents of unfretted free trade were wrong. Bill Clinton promised that NAFTA would create a million jobs in 5 years, in fact it lost 700,0000 jobs. We were promised that PNTR with China would create hundreds of thousands of jobs. Instead it has lead to the loss of over 2 million jobs. And on and on it goes. Everybody knows that the great middle class of this country is disappearing and one of the major reasons is a disastrous set of trade policies, which force America workers to compete with workers around the world who make pennies an hour.
The TPP and TPA proposals that President Obama has negotiated in complete secrecy have unified members from both the Republican and Democratic parties against the trade agreement.
WE THE PEOPLE: 2 MILLION PETITIONS DELIVERED TO CONGRESS TO STOP TPP
Members of the House and the Senate delivered 2 million petitions to Congress, opposing the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and Trade Promotion Authority (TPA).
The ranking Democrat of the Senate Committee on Veterans Affairs, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), says that “if there is ever a time in American history that we have got to stand up for the American worker and not for corporate greed—today is that day and the TPP is that issue. The facts are very clear… the TPP follows in the footsteps of other disastrous trade agreements.” Sanders adds:
Over and over again—we were told by corporate America and their representatives about all of the jobs that these trade agreements would create. And over and over again… the proponents of unfretted free trade were wrong. Bill Clinton promised that NAFTA would create a million jobs in 5 years, in fact it lost 700,0000 jobs. We were promised that PNTR with China would create hundreds of thousands of jobs. Instead it has lead to the loss of over 2 million jobs. And on and on it goes. Everybody knows that the great middle class of this country is disappearing and one of the major reasons is a disastrous set of trade policies, which force America workers to compete with workers around the world who make pennies an hour.
The TPP and TPA proposals that President Obama has negotiated in complete secrecy have unified members from both the Republican and Democratic parties against the trade agreement.
newworldafro
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So far what is known is in the bill/"treaty" are:
Climate Change taxes
Pharmaceutical industry wins
International trade in private data
[Several other things, but nobody knows what except those in the secret trade negotiations]
Remember it is a secret negotiation, that has only been available to Congressmen who have to go to a room, remove all electronic equipment and can not take notes. So essentially a lot of people will not even know what they are voting for, because they can't actually look over it properly .................................................................................. as they would any other bill, pretty much ...... ever.
.......................................................................................back to Brucelyn Jenner updates .......................................................................................................
Climate Change taxes
Pharmaceutical industry wins
International trade in private data
[Several other things, but nobody knows what except those in the secret trade negotiations]
Remember it is a secret negotiation, that has only been available to Congressmen who have to go to a room, remove all electronic equipment and can not take notes. So essentially a lot of people will not even know what they are voting for, because they can't actually look over it properly .................................................................................. as they would any other bill, pretty much ...... ever.
.......................................................................................back to Brucelyn Jenner updates .......................................................................................................
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This entire bill is very disgusting. Another reason why the media is focused on that he-bytch Caitlyn and ignoring this travesty.
Obama is definitely the WORST thing to happen in America in a long while
Obama is definitely the WORST thing to happen in America in a long while
what's long in your opinion?
newworldafro
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Basically, when they were doing Obamacare, Nancy Pelosi got up said, we have to pass the law to know whats in it. 
....... which is pretty backwards in a transparent republican democracy. Shouldn't the public know what their representatives are voting on???
Well Paul Ryan basically just the same thing with regards to TPP. Also, what I'm hearing is that if they do manage to pass this, a committee will take over and can essential overrule any U.S. laws if a corporation has an issue. They are literally giving away the farm.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-govern...lassified-and-made-public-once-its-agreed-to/
PAUL RYAN’S PELOSI-ESQUE OBAMATRADE MOMENT: ‘IT’S DECLASSIFIED AND MADE PUBLIC ONCE IT’S AGREED TO’
....... which is pretty backwards in a transparent republican democracy. Shouldn't the public know what their representatives are voting on???Well Paul Ryan basically just the same thing with regards to TPP. Also, what I'm hearing is that if they do manage to pass this, a committee will take over and can essential overrule any U.S. laws if a corporation has an issue. They are literally giving away the farm.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-govern...lassified-and-made-public-once-its-agreed-to/
PAUL RYAN’S PELOSI-ESQUE OBAMATRADE MOMENT: ‘IT’S DECLASSIFIED AND MADE PUBLIC ONCE IT’S AGREED TO’
storyteller
Veteran
Y'all know the TPP is just one of three trade agreements on the pipe line right? I read that one of the agreements could involve 50 nations and have similar issues to the TPP. We're screwed.
Red Shield
Global Domination
They will get it... and there isn't a damn thing American's are going to be able to do to stop it.
i like free trade*. 
*with other industrial nations.
*with other industrial nations.
Yapdatfool
Superstar
Well I just read over what those trade agreements would mean as far as copyright infringement and intellectual property goes...
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Kinda wierd, SOPA & PIPA was well known in the news, FCC's plight on net neutrality got burn, yet this doesn't
& Kinda wierd, SOPA & PIPA was well known in the news, FCC's plight on net neutrality got burn, yet this doesn't