Sessions: 'Little surprise' Obama quietly signed the TPP

Washington Examiner ^ | Feb 4, 2016 | Anna Giaritelli

[Ray76]

Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., charged the Obama administration with quietly signing the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement in New Zealand, and said the White House tried to minimize it because it knows the public isn't pleased with the deal.

[1rudeboy]

China and Russia? Where are they in this equation? Post a link to a blog, or something. LOL

[DoughtyOne]

I already did, but you refused to read anything at the two places I linked you to.

[1rudeboy]

I saw something about John Kerry “inviting” China and Russia to some sort of discussions, but not Ted Cruz. So it’s not that I refused to read what you provided, it’s just that what you provided is worthless.

[DoughtyOne]

Who voted for cloture?

Any guesses?

[Carry me back]

Yep Ted is not what he claims.

[ETL]

For what it's worth...

Ted Cruz Vows to Vote Against TPP Trade Deal in Iowa

Breitbart ^ | 11/21/2015 | Ted Swoyer

GOP presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) said that he would vote against the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal between the United States and 11 other countries on Friday while campaigning in Iowa.

According to the Des Moines Register, Cruz said he is "deeply concerned" with the trade pact.

"While Cruz said he supports free trade, he believes the Trans Pacific Partnership would undermine U.S. immigration laws and the nation's sovereignty," reported the Des Moines Register.

"There are a number of Republicans on that (debate) stage who support TPP, who support (the Trade Promotion Authority)," Cruz stated. "I voted against TPA and I intend to vote against TPP." ..."

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/11/21/ted-cruz-vows-vote-tpp-trade-deal-iowa/

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Cruz: TPA Doesn't Give Obama More Power,
Jeff Sessions "Not Accurate" On TPP

by Ian Hanchett
June 12, 2015

Texas Senator and GOP presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) argued Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) "is not giving the president more authority" and that Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) is "not accurate" in some of his claims regarding the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) on Friday's broadcast of "The Kuhner Report" on Boston's WRKO.

Cruz argued that he had been the staunchest opponent of President Barack Obama in Congress. He then separated TPA (Trade Promotion Authority) and the TPP (the Trans-Pacific Partnership). He touched on TPA first, stating that "history has demonstrated, the only way to get a trade agreement adopted is with fast-track. Since FDR, consistently, for 80 years, presidents in both parties have had fast-track. Anytime fast-track has lapsed, trade agreements don't get negotiated."

He later added that it was a "misunderstanding" to say TPA gave away the Senate's treaty power. Cruz stated that "Under the Constitution, there are two ways to make binding law. Number one, you can pass a treaty ratified by 2/3rds of the Senate. Or number two, you can pass legislation passed by a majority of both of houses of Congress and signed by the president. ... TPA uses the second constitutional path."

And "it's been long recognized that the Constitution's Origination Clause applies to trade bills, which means the House of Representatives has to be involved. There's a reason why trade bills have historically not been done as treaties, because the Constitution says that anything concerning the raising of revenues, and trade bills concern tariffs, which are the raising of revenues, has to originate in the House of Representatives. So, the process of approving a trade agreement through both houses of Congress has been the way it has been done for roughly a century. And it is not giving the president more authority."

Regarding TPP, Cruz said he was undecided because there was no "actual agreement" regarding TPP.

He later blasted classification of the text of TPP as "idiotic." He continued that claims made by Senator Jeff Sessions were "not accurate"... this trade agreement, now, at least the current draft... does not impact, change, alter, or effect US immigration law. There is a brief section in the TPP that concerns issues of immigration, but explicitly, the United States doesn't join that section."

He further pointed to his amendment to prevent trade agreements from impacting immigration that the House agreed to include. Cruz continued, "Beyond that, the notion of giving up sovereignty and an international body that can alter US law, Jeff, I have spent 20 years fighting to defend United States sovereignty. There is no one in the Senate who has been a stronger opponent of international bodies taking away our authority. ... And it is simply false that the TPP trade agreement gives up our sovereignty. There is nothing in TPA or TPP that can give a foreign body the ability to make binding law in the United States of America under our Constitution." Although, he stated that it was natural and understandable people would be suspicious of a secret agreement.

He added that "if this president tried to slip something in, it would have to be approved by Congress, and by the way, under the terms of fast-track, TPA, any trade agreement, including the TPP, must be public at least 60 days, the text of it, before it's voted on."

Later, Cruz conceded that while he hasn't "studied" TPP "the way one would for weeks and weeks on end, the way one would during the 60 days when it is public. In a six, seven-hundred page agreement can there be things buried in a footnote that one doesn't see? Sure," Sessions' claims that TPP would undermine US law are "not accurate."

He concluded that the Obama administration would like people to blame job losses on free trade, but that free trade is not to blame for job losses.

(h/t The Right Scoop)

http://www.breitbart.com/video/2015/06/12/cruz-tpa-doesnt-give-obama-more-power-sessions-on-not-accurate-on-tpp/

[ConservativeMind]

Cruz did vote to release TPA to the main Senate. He pushed it, strongly, for at least five months prior.

After he voted to release it, he voted against the changes it had.

So, he was for it before he was against it. Sounds like anyone else we know?

[1rudeboy]

Only to the weak-minded, who draw false comparisons. Cruz is in favor of free trade, just like Reagan was. Seriously, if you like false comparisons and are a protectionist, just vote for Bernie if you are serious.

[ConservativeMind]

So, why did Cruz wind up against this, if it’s so good?

[1rudeboy]

You have to ask? Do you follow politics?

Cruz voted against TPA because the bill contained add-on provisions regarding the reauthorization of the Ex-Im Bank, and immigration, with which he disagreed.

[Democrat_media]

Good points.

This TPP monstrosity is the end of America

Anyone that helped obama to get this passed deserves to be deported

[Democrat_media]

I totally agree with your post. Good points.

[DoughtyOne]

Thank you.

Although I’m a little nervous about that with your pseudonym.

“:^)

[Liz]

CRUZ/S WHIRLING DERVISH ROUTINE: He supports it and then votes against it to provide cover for himself.

Example: Crux's cloture vote. He pushed for it, then voted to bring it to the floor, then voted against it knowing it was going to pass.

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SOP for self-serving Cruz---an Ivy League mind at work:

<><> He takes 3-4 positions on an issue.

<><> He then lies in wait to see which position benefits him.

<><> Once the voting stops, he examines which way the political winds are blowing.

<><> He then pulls out a canned excuse to cover his self-serving ***.

[Liz]

Globalist Goldman/Sachs (his wife/s employer) must love these Cruz votes.

<><> Cruz voted to fast-track TPP knowing Obama considers TPP central to his presidential legacy and to his foreign policy and economic legacies.

<><> Cruz's vote on the Corker bill is a landmine......Corker rallying the radical left to protect Obama on the $150 billion Iran nuclear deal giveaway.

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Cruz gets a million dollar loan from G/S ....keeps calling for a 500% increase in H1b work visas...

G/S hires many H-1B visa holders.

American workers DESPISE H1B Visas. A massive expansion of H1Bs puts struggling Americans out of work.

No 'conservative' in their right mind would ever vote for deals which put Americans out of work. Cruz will not change his position on H1B visas....b/c pro-amnesty Goldman Sachs contributed to his 2016 campaign (Cruz's wife is a Goldman Sachs $700,000 globalist lawyer).

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TPP is best understood against the backdrop
of Obama's post-presidential get-rich-quick foundation plans.

NOW ISN'T THIS INTERESTING? few, if any, of the RCEP and
TPP countries contributed to the buck-raking Clinton Foundation.

Looks like the Clintons and Obama divvied up the globe so that each have their own countries in order to collect big buck get-rich-quick foundation donations, honorarium, cosultancies, and int'l insider business deals.

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THE FACTS ARE THESE Obama's trade deal giveaway is a huge scam...best examined against the backdrop of Obama's two tax-exempt foundations (two-that we know of). Obama's priming the pump for donations to his two Foundations.

All of Obama's thinly-veiled actions....

(1) promoting TPA and TPP,

(2) his immigration suck-ups

(3) his non-action WRT ISIS, IRAN....

.....are best understood against the backdrop of Obama's future get-rich-quick plans as an ex-president----more specifically, his two get-rich-quick Foundations (two foundations that we know of).

All these entities control billions of dollars---and Obama is lying-in-wait for his share: foreign donations, lucrative insider trade deals from untapped resources, energy deals, telecom deals, arms sales, consultancies, million dollar honorarium...and so on and so forth.

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WIKI REFERENCE: Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) is a proposed free trade agreement (FTA) between the ten member states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) (Brunei, Burma (Myanmar), Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam) and the six states with which ASEAN has existing FTAs (Australia, China, India, Japan, South Korea and New Zealand). RCEP negotiations were formally launched in November 2012 at the ASEAN Summit in Cambodia.

[gg188]

It is so gratifying to see so many people GET it. The non-informed can really get me down on FR. All the research that you, I, Sundance and many others have done may stop this "free trade"/TPP/NAU/NAFTA/Open Borders/Goldman Sachs/Washington Cartel/World Bank fraud that is Heidi and Ted Cruz. Every good job in America is at stake. Plus so much more.

The Robert Zoellick/Robert Pastor/Heidi Cruz/Ted Cruz conspiracy is exposed.

Thank you.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3393816/posts

http://http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3382543/posts

[DoughtyOne]

I hear ya...

[DoughtyOne]

Exactly Liz. You summed it up nicely.

We’ve seen this dog n pony show so many times, and have hated it when everyone else pulled it.

It sure hurts to see your favorite do it, but it is the reality.

Thanks for breaking it down clearly.

[1rudeboy]

Vote Bernie! Stop free trade!

[1rudeboy]

I’m just surprised that people here still think that Cruz voted for TPA. Is that a talking-point from the Trump campaign?