Your discussion about what Cruz read or didn’t and then voted on seems to me a non sequitur.
What Cruz read on WikiLeaks was text from TiSA not from TPA.
- TiSA is a trade agreement with the same levels of secrecy being used with the TPP trade agreement.
- TPA is the congressional legislation that delegates authority to a POTUS to negotiate trade deals (TiSA, TPP) on Congress’ behalf and provides for that negotiated deal to be fast-tracked through Congress to get an up-or-down vote w/o amendments.
Cruz was not voting on TiSA or TPP. He was voting on TPA.
FWIW.
And this illustrates the problem with the issues around TPA, TPP, TiSA, etc.
NO ONE knows what they are talking about. Everything seems to be built on untested and unsupportable assumptions. Unsupportable from a perspective of facts.
And yet, EVERYONE is posting opinions as if they were fact.