Posted on 06/17/2015 2:40:05 PM PDT by familyop
On Friday, Congress disrupted President Obama’s plan for a sweeping transfer of U.S. sovereignty to an unaccountable group of foreign busybodies. Hurray for the stalwart Americans who resisted the demands of Obama, the Republican leadership, and the big-donor claque, but Speaker Boehner plans to give Congress another chance this week to make this dangerous mistake.
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) would turn over to globalists the power to issue regulations about U.S. trade, immigration, the environment, labor and commerce. It’s called a “living agreement” which means the globalists can amend and change the text of the so-called agreement after it has gone into effect.
That reminds me of our supremacist judges who invented the term of a “living” Constitution, which they can rewrite to comport with their own updated ideology. The globalists claim that this “living” document (TPP), now called Obamatrade, has all the powers of a treaty to commit the U.S. to new foreign obligations, although it certainly did not comply with any U.S. constitutional provisions for treaty ratification.
Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL) has frankly warned about this giveaway of U.S. sovereignty. Not only would Congress give up its powers to negotiate and write the terms of a treaty, but Congress also gives up its power to debate and amend the deal, to apply a cloture vote in the Senate, and to require a two-thirds vote in the Senate.
The secrecy wrapped around TPP is appallingly un-American. Whatever happened to Obama’s promise of “transparency”? TPP was negotiated and agreed to by Obama’s trade representative and a bunch of foreigners in a secret room, and the American people are not allowed to know the details until after it’s a done deal.
TPP puts us in a new political and economic union before a single private citizen is told about it and with public opinion running five to one against it. Remember when Nancy Pelosi said we had to pass Obamacare in order to find out what is in it?
Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA) warns, “TPP calls for the formation of a permanent political and economic union known as the Trans-Pacific Partnership Commission, which will have power to issue regulations impacting not only trade but immigration, the environment, labor and commerce. He added, Congress “will have surrendered its legislative prerogatives. Before a word, line, paragraph, or page of this plan is made public, Congress will have even agreed to give up its treaty powers.”
Senator Sessions made it even more emphatic, saying that Fast Track “authorizes the President to form a new transnational governance structure…. it confers the power to both compel and restrict changes to U.S. policy, to commit the U.S. to international obligations, and to cede sovereign authority to a foreign body.” This new global body could even add new member countries (such as China).
Senator Sessions continued: “Congress would be pre-clearing a political and economic union before a word of that arrangement has been made available to a single private citizen. This has the earmarks of a nascent European Union,” and Americans certainly don’t want to belong to a European union (that’s why we fought the American Revolution).
Rep. Hunter also warns that the new global governance institution would be “authorized to issue policies and regulations affecting our economy, our manufacturers, our workers, our immigration procedures, as well as current, labor and environmental practices.”
TPP is separating us from the U.S. Constitution and from national sovereignty and replacing both with a global governance superstructure. TPP has wrapped its audacious global governance plan in the mantle called “free trade,” which is a misnomer if there ever was one.
“Free trade” means Americans must obey a bunch of rules written by foreigners (which we can’t veto), but China can ignore those rules. TPP didn’t even touch the subject of currency manipulation against us by Asian countries.
While the American people are denied the right to read TPP, thanks to leaks from WikiLeaks we have learned that Obamatrade includes ten pages to unilaterally alter our current U.S. immigration law. Senator Sessions says TPP will give Obama a backdoor to increase immigration, and the same lobbyists who are pushing for Obamatrade are demanding open borders.
Republicans need a bold program to bring back jobs that have been lost to Asian countries. Michele Bachmann summed up a pro-American verdict on TPP: “I hate it. It would empower the president, cut out congressional influence, and lead to American jobs leaving the U.S.”
That’s cheap—like Walker trying to claim he’s reformed on illegal immigration after talking with Sessions.
The House Passes the TPA, again
House leaders separated the TPA from the TAA this week by moving TPA into H.R. 2146, a bill about the retirement funds of federal law enforcement officers and firefighters. The old provisions of the bill were retained when TPA was added to the end of this bill. This combined bill now goes to the Senate. (In fact, it goes back to the Senate. H.R. 2146 had previous passed the House and the Senate, but the Senate passed it with a technical change — see our summary. Rather than concurring in the Senate’s technical change, the House added TPA.)
The Senate will now have to decide whether to approve the House’s addition of TPA to H.R. 2146. But this is a removal of TAA from the original package deal. Senate Democrats may balk, but they may not have the numbers to vote the bill down.
This is the second vote in the House on TPA. The last vote was on the Senate’s Trade Act, H.R. 1314, that combined TPA and TAA. Although House Democrats support TAA, they voted against it last week to tank the whole bill (see our previous coverage and full explanation of TPA, TAA, and TPP). By doing so, they gave House Republicans the opportunity to pass the TPA alone and risk losing the one part of the trade deal they supported.
How Congress Voted on Trade Trade Promotion Authority, or TPA, would “fast-track” the TPP and TTIP once they are finalized. This means that Congress will consider the deals without the opportunity for senators to filibuster or for members of either chamber to propose an amendment. It will be an up-or-down vote. Congress is deliberating whether to tie its hands together now in order to prevent the trade deals from unravelling once its members get a look later.
Why do you think the House version does not contain the immigration language?
H.R.2146 either.
No (14) there either.
Apparently his amendment failed to pass.
No action information was received for S.Amdt.1384.
It failed to come up for a vote in the Senate because of two Senators, but it was included and passed in the House. So the bill coming back to the Senate includes the immigration language by Cruz.
Then show it.
H.R.2146 is the bill going to the Senate as is stated in reply 83.
There are 5 versions of Bill Number H.R.2146 for the 114th Congress. Usually, the last item is the most recent. 1 . Defending Public Safety Employees' Retirement Act (Introduced in House - IH)[H.R.2146.IH][PDF]
2 . Defending Public Safety Employees' Retirement Act (Engrossed in House [Passed House] - EH)[H.R.2146.EH][PDF]
3 . Defending Public Safety Employees' Retirement Act (Referred in Senate - RFS)[H.R.2146.RFS][PDF]
4 . Resolved, That the bill from the House of Representatives (H.R. 2146) entitled `An Act to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow Federal law enforcement officers, firefighters,... (Engrossed Amendment Senate - EAS)[H.R.2146.EAS][PDF]
5 . Resolved, That the House agree to the amendment of the Senate to the bill (H.R. 2146) entitled `An Act to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow Federal law enforcement... (Engrossed Amendment House - EAH)[H.R.2146.EAH][PDF]
So the bill coming back to the Senate includes the immigration language by Cruz.
Where is that language? 2146 has the same language as 1314.
Here is an article in which Sessions is quoted on immigration language to be added to TPA. This is the language that Cruz conferred with him on.
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I have no idea why the TPP negotiations are being kept so secret.
My guess is that every day Americans would be spitting tacks if they knew in advance what was being proposed and Congress doesn't want to deal with the backlash.
Thus the urgent need for fast-track. Pass it "as is" even if you only like part of it because -- "it helps the American worker". /politician impression
“As with previous nefarious trade conspiracies, the TPA is a fast track for quickly passing the TPP and other schemed agreements between global bosses”
yes that’s all you need to know. And why would any Republican Congress be eager to grant this to Barack Obama of all people in the world? And if they are not planning to vote for TPP why give Barry the fast track in the first place. We are being had folks
But you said...
...it was included and passed in the House.
I've given you the link to the bill going to the Senate.
Show me where that language is at.
And your politico.com link isn't good.
TPA debate hatches — Memorial Day recess looms — Liberals plotting counterattack 5/15/15
The article was at the request to produce how Sessions was involved in the immigration language that Cruz wrote for the TPA Bill. In a speech, Cruz said that he conferred with Sessions on the language. In the article Sessions discusses the immigration language.
That is wrong. As I said, the TPA was moved to H.R.2146 and that link goes to H.R.1314.
H.R.1314 had TPA and TAA in it.
H.R.2146 has just TPA in it.
You're behind by several days...at least. Mr. Johnson needs to update his site.
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