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Could Conservatives Push TPA Over the Finish Line?
Roll Call ^ | May 22nd, 2015 | By Matt Fuller

Posted on 05/22/2015 9:50:40 AM PDT by Mariner

As the House inches closer to a vote on the long-awaited Trade Promotion Authority bill, conservatives who have traditionally been hard-liners in their opposition to deals with the White House are taking a softer approach.

While many on the right are still hedging their position on the TPA, there appears to be some conservative support for the trade process legislation. And with congressional Democrats increasingly taking a firmer line against the TPA, which would give expedited consideration to the Trans-Pacific Partnership under negotiation with 11 other countries, conservatives could be the key to getting the TPA over the finish line.

At a monthly panel discussion for conservative lawmakers Wednesday, a cross-section of the House GOP’s most needling members expressed views ranging from support to little more than light opposition to the TPA bill. Most Republicans in attendance — Justin Amash of Michigan, Thomas Massie of Kentucky, Raúl R. Labrador of Idaho, Jim Jordan of Ohio and Ken Buck of Colorado — all said they were “leaning no” on the fast-track authority. (Dave Brat of Virginia said he was “leaning heavy no.”) But Cynthia M. Lummis of Wyoming said she was undecided, and Tim Huelskamp of Kansas, perhaps GOP leadership’s biggest critic, even sounded supportive.

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Now the fight over TPA and Sovereignty and Secrecy shifts to the House.

Conservatives with phones and letters have far more influence over the House than the Senate.

Get after 'em.

We only have to turn about 40 Republicans to a NO position to stop this.

1 posted on 05/22/2015 9:50:40 AM PDT by Mariner
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To: Mariner

The Senators already capitulated. Cruz has been a real disappointment of late. Trouble on his horizon.


2 posted on 05/22/2015 9:55:04 AM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Mariner

Just give us the NAMES of the GOP member that support this crap, and we’ll PRIMARY THEM OUT OF OFFICE !


3 posted on 05/22/2015 9:55:27 AM PDT by Yosemitest (It's Simple ! Fight, ... or Die !)
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To: Mariner

I am so sick of the GOPe. I am done with that party.


4 posted on 05/22/2015 9:56:02 AM PDT by boycott
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To: Mariner

If conservatives in congress think that because the Democrats oppose something then it must be good and thus the conservatives must support then those conservatives are just as seriously FOOLS as the Democrats and gopes are serioiusly frauds and Statists.


5 posted on 05/22/2015 9:57:44 AM PDT by arthurus (It's true!)
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To: Mariner

Hope the Chamber of Commerce will enjoy life under President Elizabeth Warren, cause a lot of us are staying home next November.


6 posted on 05/22/2015 10:00:52 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Mariner

Republicans - doing the dirty job even democrats won’t do.


7 posted on 05/22/2015 10:01:55 AM PDT by Iron Munro (We may be paranoid but that doesn't mean they aren't really after us)
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To: Yosemitest

No votes from the GOP:

Lee

Paul

Collins

Sessions

Shelby

That’s it, and only ONE POTUS Candidate: Paul.


8 posted on 05/22/2015 10:08:41 AM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Mariner

Øbama’s team are the worst negotiators in history. I wouldn’t give them authority to order lunch let alone a trade agreement.


9 posted on 05/22/2015 10:10:11 AM PDT by NonValueAdded (I love it when we're Cruz'in together)
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I would not vote for any bill which is shrouded in secrecy. “You have to pass it to see what is in it”. That is what got us obamacare.


10 posted on 05/22/2015 10:14:33 AM PDT by snowtigger (It ain't what you shoot, it's what you hit.)
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To: Mariner

Both Senators from Alabama were a NO.

Audemus jura nostra defendere!


11 posted on 05/22/2015 10:14:46 AM PDT by bamahead (Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master. -- Sallust)
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To: bamahead
"Audemus jura nostra defendere!"

That's what I'm sayin'...

Roll Tide.

12 posted on 05/22/2015 10:16:20 AM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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Roll Tide! God bless Alabama.


13 posted on 05/22/2015 10:19:09 AM PDT by Himyar (Sessions: the only real man in D.C.)
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To: Mariner

Paul wasn’t going to get my vote, anyway!


14 posted on 05/22/2015 10:20:50 AM PDT by Yosemitest (It's Simple ! Fight, ... or Die !)
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To: Paladin2

Cruz capitulated or misjudged the Iran thing, also. He is getting exasperating.


15 posted on 05/22/2015 10:23:39 AM PDT by arthurus (It's true!)
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To: Yosemitest
"Paul wasn’t going to get my vote, anyway!"

He's the ONLY Republican POTUS candidate to vote against this mess.

All the rest are complicit.

16 posted on 05/22/2015 10:25:13 AM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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But a "NO" vote is what I want !
If the bill has to be kept in secret, then the votes should be AGAINST THE BILL !
If they can NOT reveal what the Bill says, then it should FAIL !
17 posted on 05/22/2015 10:25:30 AM PDT by Yosemitest (It's Simple ! Fight, ... or Die !)
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So TED CRUZ gets MY VOTE !
I would NEVER vote for Paul !
18 posted on 05/22/2015 10:27:54 AM PDT by Yosemitest (It's Simple ! Fight, ... or Die !)
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To: Paladin2

I am really struggling with Ted Cruz voting for cloture yesterday. I was so surprised to see Tom Cotton and Jodi Ernst voting for it also.

Somebody said in a speech in SC “the politicians are not going to get you to the promised land” Oh so true.


19 posted on 05/22/2015 10:28:33 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: Yosemitest
So, you support the fact that he voted to enable Obama and TPA? You support the fact that he shirked his Constitutional Responsibility to maintain Separation of Powers, forcing a 2/3 majority of the Senate to approved any new Treaty?

Perhaps you support the fact he voted to keep this whole mess a secret from the American public?

20 posted on 05/22/2015 10:31:47 AM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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