[vbmoneyspender]

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.

[MN_Mike]

I think you may need more tin foil.

To anyone reading this thread, TPA is not a trade agreement. But it does insure that the public is allowed a 60 day viewing period before any subsequent trade bill, be it TPP or any other, is put to a vote by Congress.

TPA puts an trade deal in the hands of Congress, not the POTUS.

As for whether or not trade agreements are read or not is not verifiable.

I know Cruz read it because he said as much.

Given that under TPA, all trade agreements are to have a 60-day public viewing period, and TPP is not up for a vote today, why is the question of whether or a member of Congress has read it now?