Posted on 01/20/2015 5:32:17 AM PST by cotton1706
A vote on Trade Promotion Authority (TPA, better known as "Fast Track") is likely to come up in March as Senator Mitch McConnell (left, R-Ky.), Repressentative Paul Ryan (center, R-Wis.), Senator Orrin Hatch (right, R-Utah), and other GOP leaders line up Republican votes to push for Obama’s U.S.-Atlantic-Pacific merger pacts. "The first thing we ought to do is pass trade promotion authority," new House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Paul Ryan said at a committee hearing on the U.S. economy, according to a January 14 report on politico.com. Ryan argued that TPA would allow the White House to bring back the best deal in the ongoing international negotiations.
“The first window for passing trade promotion authority legislation will likely be in March, according to a senior House GOP aide, who said busy floor and committee schedules will likely prevent the bill from coming up in February,” Politico reported.
“The aide predicted that the House Ways and Means Committee would report out a clean TPA bill, with no other trade legislation attached,” Politco continued. “In one scenario, the Senate could pass all the other pending trade legislation, such as the Generalized System of Preferences, together in a package, while the House passes TPA. Then, each chamber in turn would pass the legislation from the other, the aide said.”
Senator Orrin Hatch, now president pro tem of the Senate, as well as chairman of the powerful Senate Finance Committee, is keen to help new Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell deliver Fast Track power to President Obama.
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What about ObamaCARE?
The EXEMPT do not care, they are making
money from it and are not even under it.
What about the open borders?
The EXEMPT do not care.
What about Benghazi?
Someone remind me again why it so imperative to vote Republican last NOV.
To continue the charade that voting for the same types of people will yield differing results when they have an R after their name.
“Yeah, we can work with this guy.” /s
“ObamaTrade”
I got excited there for a minute, thinking who we could trade him for...
Yeah, this sounds good, but who would ever want to give Obama additional authority? He’ll conclude an oil trade deal with ISIS. (sorry, ISIL).
R now equals ROLLOVER
Will they give him trade authority with Cuba, too?
“Someone remind me again why it so imperative to vote Republican last NOV.”
Because whether they like it or not, Republicans were “hired”, if you will, to work for us. Unlike the Liberal Dems, the Republicans who were put in office in such a wave have a clear view of what we want. The problem is, they don’t hear enough from us but listen to the same old insulated crowd that inhabits Washington. They and the Dems know that we just don’t have the stamina to keep calling, writing, calling again, until they get the concept that they are public servants; our servants. Nothing gets a politician’s attention more than a giant, public, overwhelming tongue lashing directed at them, not each other as we tend to do. If we spent half as much time directing our ire at them and their offices instead of arguing on a forum, they would have to at least consider our opinions more than they presently do.
Once a politician is elected, they seem to disappear into Washington’s maw and morph into something besides the gung ho person we voted for who had our interests at heart. Splitting the party, forming another party; trashing the party are just gifts for the Liberal Dems because; clueless and mentally challenged as they are, they know the value of standing together.
Oh, HELL no. This is a Chamber of Commerce multinational corporation act. So far, while these things may have uplifted third and fourth world countries by a notch, at the same time they have taken the US down several notches.
Seriously, they do not need to “level the playing field” at our expense any more. Even if it makes their corporate owners incredibly wealthier. They need to back up and take an “America first” attitude.
We have lost too much of our industry. We have outsourced way too many jobs. We are deeply in debt beyond any possible reason.
So stop it. Stop doing it. Stop hurting America to help other people.
I’m curious... are these Chamber of Commerce morons even vaguely aware that by effectively reducing wages on the existing workforce by instilling uneducated, unskilled, and lower wage workers, that the middle class will continue to shrink, thereby reducing the number of households that can afford their products and services? I realize that most corporate finance people are not interested much beyond the next quarter, but these nimrods better wake up and start realizing that they are cutting their own throats, before its too late.
Shades of the Roman senate voting powers to the Caesars.
Hahahaha! I’m shocked!
I may not make many friends here but NAFTA devastated the UNIONS...and I LOVE IT.
The Union bastards finally DID NOT have “the man” by the throat. “The Man” simply went overseas instead. We’d be like Argentina today (with unions wringing the country dry) if not for free trade.
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