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There has been far too much Internet rumor and conjecture surrounding TPA and TPP. In fact, the TPA bill passed by the Senate has been available for public viewing since May 22, 2015.

Note: With passage of TPA, any subsequent trade bill requires a 60-day advanced public viewing.

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Carly Fiorina, the former Hewlett-Packard CEO and 2016 Republican presidential candidate, is calling on President Barack Obama to publicly release the text of Obamatrade immediately.

“Of course, I support free and fair trade,” Fiorina said in an email to Breitbart News.

But President Obama has made lofty promises before and we’ve learned with this White House that the devil is in the details. And the details are frequently very different than the lofty goals with which he describes the deal. So I’d like President Obama to tell us what’s in his trade deal before we grant him this broad fast track authority. So far, though, he’s been unwilling to do that and Hillary won’t even take a position on it. That should concern us. Mr. President, if you want TPA to pass, please just tell us what is in TPP.

Fiorina’s call for transparency on the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) Pacific Rim trade deal comes right after the U.S. Senate passed Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) to fast track that deal—and right before the House is angling to take up the deal.

It also comes on the heels of revelations that several lieutenants of House Speaker Rep. John Boehner (R-OH) — who supports the deal and is using his allies like Majority Whip Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) and Rules Committee chairman Rep. Pete Sessions (R-TX), the two specific lieutenants in question — haven’t read the text of TPP, which TPA would ensure the passage of.

To anyone who happens upon this thread, please note that the Trade Promotion Authority ("TPA") bill is NOT the trade agreement. The TPA is merely the fast-track law that will enable the trade agreement known as the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement ("TPP") to be voted on in Congress without any amendments being allowed to the agreement. Thus, the TPA will force a take it or leave it vote on the TPP which will make it much harder to oppose the bad provisions in the TPP.

This is why the TPP is being kept secret. There are bad things in the TPP that the administration doesn't want people to have time to react to and to try and change. We've seen before what happens, particularly with this administration, when a law is passed with little or no review. There is simply no reason why the fine print in the TPP agreement should not be disclosed now while our legislators have a chance to demand the bad things in the TPP either be removed or get changed.