Posted on 06/17/2015 10:47:41 AM PDT by GIdget2004
House Speaker John Boehner’s plan, as laid out to several aides and lawmakers, would attempt to pass Trade Promotion Authority as a standalone bill. The Senate, meanwhile, would amend a trade “preferences” bill with Trade Adjustment Assistance, the job-training and program that was defeated on the House floor last week.
But Democrats want several assurances before moving forward.
For one, pro-trade House Democrats want to be sure that if they back a fast-track bill without the worker aid measure, like-minded Senate Democrats will also vote for it. Senate Democrats want a promise that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Boehner will agree to amend the preferences bill with an extension of the expiring TAA program, a key Democratic priority.
Senate Finance Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), who coauthored the Senate bill, said in an interview that Republicans would move to include the worker aid program in the trade preferences plan. That’s the cost to of winning critical Democratic support for fast-track, which would prohibit Congress from making changes to the Trans-Pacific Partnership, Hatch said.
“I don’t think there’s any question we’d do that,” he said. “That’s part of the deal. We know the quid pro quo for TPA is TAA.”
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NO tp TPA in any form!
It would be nice if some reporter would ask why TAA is necessary if TPP will create jobs, as it’s supporters say.
Huddle? Huddle? They got nothing to worry about. GOP-e to the rescue of the Dims once again.
Oldplayer
What’s so bleeping important that they need to do this crap anyhow? If trade negotiations are that important, why can’t bozo do it without all this fuss? If it fails he wil blame congress either way. So let him do it on his own.
Not this president. I don’t want him to give him _more_ power.
Especially since a similar amount of power would be surrendered by the legislative branch simultaneously.
Not this president. No.
If this thing is so great, then why is “displaced worker aid” necessary?
This smells to high heaven. So this secret back room deal bill is going to allow H1-b workers and others to swarm into the country, PUT AMERICANS OUT OF WORK, and then we are gonna ask American tax payers to pay for welfare checks on all of this. Just great.
Was moveon.org standing on the right side of this issue against TAA, for some reason.
How many more times can they cram down legislation that clear majorities of Americans strongly oppose, without setting off some type of revolution?
Well, they are against it for other reasons.
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