The TPA is not secret, and it was consistently renewed since FDR until Harry Reid killed it for GW Bush.
The problem is the trade agreements, they are secret. The secrecy is the problem because it allows for conspiracy theory minded hecklers to have a field day fomenting discord.
Ted Cruz thinks it is STUPID that the trade agreements are secret and advocates they be made public right now. But he said the good news is that if TPA passes it will require all trade agreements using TPA to be public at least 60 days before voting on them.
I also don’t like Boehner. In fact I loathe him and he is just threw 3 fine conservatives off the whip team. The fact that he wants to get TPA passed by hook or crook disturbs me.
I will have one question for Ted Cruz when I see him for a town hall.
“If TPA were to pass this month, the first trade bill, say TPP, could be voted on by say September this year 2015. What makes you confident that Obama won’t ‘modify TPP or any other trade agreement in a way that harms the rights of Americans?’”
Because, after waiting a minimum of 60 days, during which the final TPP is published and discussed, both houses of Congress must vote it up or down by simple majority. And there are more Republicans than Democrats in both the House and the Senate.
If Zero wants a trade bill in his miserable "legacy", then he'd better negotiate a clean one!