The most transparent administration in history ...
Posted on 08/15/2015 9:45:24 AM PDT by Theoria
Sen. Sherrod Brown announced Friday he is going to block the confirmation of a high-level White House nominee, because of the Obama administration's refusal to relax its secrecy protocols that make it difficult for members of Congress and their staffs to review the language in a Pacific Rim trade deal.
Brown, a Democrat from Ohio, told NPR it was "outrageous" that congressional staff members with the proper security clearances can view the Trans-Pacific Partnership draft only when a member of Congress accompanies them. As NPR's Ailsa Chang reported in May, the document is stored in a highly secure room in the basement of the Capitol.
A notice was sent from Brown last week to the office of the U.S. Trade Representative demanding credentialed policy advisers full access (minus the chaperone) to the TPP draft language. Brown set the deadline for noon EST Friday.
And when that deadline came and went, Brown announced he was placing a hold on the president's deputy U.S. trade nominee, Marisa Lago.
In a statement Brown said:
"The Administration would rather sacrifice a nominee for a key post than improve transparency of the largest trade agreement ever negotiated. This deal could affect more than 40 percent of our global economy, but even seasoned policy advisors with the requisite security clearance can't review text without being accompanied by a Member of Congress. It shouldn't be easier for multinational corporations to get their hands on trade text than for public servants looking out for American workers and American manufacturers."
It takes just a single senator to place a hold on a nominee.
(Excerpt) Read more at npr.org ...
About time. We have a traitor in the White House who is seeking to destroy America. Even some DemocRats are beginning to see this.
Sherrod Brown is my Senator. He is a baby-killing communist.
I’ve never agreed with him in my life, but I agree with him on this.
And he’s just possibly tippy-toeing into a presidential run, if Hillary collapses....against the other geriatric cases running..
Yeah, think of how the world would be different if everyone had access to the negotiating documents for INF and START. /s
It’s too bad that McConnell hasn’t noticed.
My guess is they’re just trolling for pork.
They sure are scared of the public knowing the details of this piece of legislation.
McConnell and Bohner are traitors
This TPP or Obama trade is a trojan horse for unrestricted 3rd world immigration.
http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/immigration/item/20710-obama-gop-trade-scheme-includes-unrestricted-immigration
All the career politician U.S. Senators passed a bill (TPA) that made the TPP obamatrade a sure thing. They all pushed it for a long time , to empower the most anti-American marxist ever named Obama. Now some of these senators are ruining for president , saying they are on the side of Americans.
The globalists actually want the standard of living in first world nations to decline.
The standard of living enjoyed by the globalists will go unaffected -- indeed, they will prosper.
Yes. That’s true.
The only chance we have of saving the USA is to reduce or stop legal and illegal immigration. 3rd world immigrants are leftists
Sherrie Brown shows more resistance to the Obama agenda then the entire GOP leadership combined!
....and they wonder why folks don’t support their hand picked candidates.....
"We Will Bury You!"
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