Posted on 06/22/2015 10:44:23 PM PDT by Mariner
The Senate is set to vote on the Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) legislation the House passed last week that gives President Obama fast track trade authority to finalize his trade negotiations without Congressional amendments.
Right now, Obama is finalizing negotiations on the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP), Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), and the Trade in Services Agreement (TiSA).
Under fast-track trade authority, Congress only gets an up or down vote on the final negotiation, and is not part of the negotiating process.
The legislation passed the House because it did not contain TAA – Trade Adjustment Assistance – a welfare program for displaced workers affected by the trade deals. Republicans and Democrats debated how to fund TAA.
The WH 2015 budget also didn’t include TAA in it as a stand-alone program, as President of Americans for Limited Government Rick Manning noted. Instead TAA was folded into a broader defined worker-training program.
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GOP, inclusive of Ted Cruz supportive.
Heritage Action is as Pro Free Trade as it gets.
What wrong with THIS ONE that causes them to be opposed?
Ask Ted Cruz.
Maybe if all the Ted Cruz supporters on this forum would e-mail or call Ted Cruz and tell him to vote NO tomorrow, he might be able to save his candidacy.
Unfortunately all the Ted Cruz supporters support everything he does, including selling the American Worker down the river.
All? You are wrong.
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