TPA had been in place from 1974 and although it expired in 2992, was still used until 2007.
From Nixon to Bush.
This is not new, and everyone being up in arms about it now, is just more campaign rhetoric.
Cruz had a stipulation that he would support it if the Ex-I’m bank was not included. It was, which is why he changed his support. It is why he called out McConnell.
Sorry, we’re talking about Barack Obama’s TPA. There is simply no justification for a principled conservative to enable the secret “trade” deals of most lawless POTUS in U.S. history. Ted Cruz did just that with his votes in support of TPA.
...as was done with Clinton and Carter before Obama.
TPA s not great, but from Nixon to W, it has been here.
I stand by my statement that to throw this out there now is just campaign rhetoric.
The way I heard it explained was that the TPA puts all of the rules in place BEFOREHAND, so the President can negotiate with another country, and the other country knows that whatever the President sets forth will be agreed upon by Congress - because Congress has already agreed to it. Makes the negoiations smoother, and the other country willing to deal with us.
Otherwise it would be like the used car salesman.
“Okay, I might be able to do that, let me check with the manager.” And 30 minutes later (or 30 days later with the President) the salesman comes back with “Well, I can’t go that low, but I can bring it down to xxxx and I’ll throw in some floor mats.”