Posted on 06/04/2015 9:26:43 PM PDT by MN_Mike
The Senate TPA Bill that was approved on May 22, 2015 has been available for public viewing for a few weeks now
There has been far too much Internet rumor and conjecture surrounding TPA and TPP. In fact, the TPA bill passed by the Senate has been available for public viewing since May 22, 2015.
Note: With passage of TPA, any subsequent trade bill requires a 60-day advanced public viewing.
Ping.
You do understand it is the TPP that is being kept secret, correct?
You do understand it is the TPP that is being kept secret, correct?
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He failed to mention that.
As I mentioned before, with TPA, there is a 60-day window before any trade deal can be approved by Congress.
I encourage you to read the TPA bill that I linked to.
I hear this was Carly’s request. She obviously is seeking political opportunism because TPP is not as of yet publicly disclosed.
What she doesn’t understand (or prefers to not understand) is that once TPA is approved, there is a mandatory 60-day public viewing window for each and every trade agreement proposal including TPA
Yeah, that is the problem. People are being asked to trust President Obama to act in good faith when only idiots would do that.
And why would you impugn Ms. Fiorina's motives simply for asking that the terms of the TPP agreement be disclosed before the TPA is voted on. What are you afraid of?
No one should be required to trust Obama. But TPP is not even up for consideration at this point. With TPA approval, you or anyone else will have a 60-day period to review the TPP before acted upon by Congress.
I am not intentionally impugning Carly’s motives.
Maybe you were unconscious when you wrote this about 10 minutes ago:
She obviously is seeking political opportunism because TPP is not as of yet publicly disclosed.
Why do you opt to impugn my motives?
Carly is not involved with Congress and the legislation process. She is far removed from what is transpiring. It is very easy to make demands from the bleachers.
She is certainly not the only one who makes grandstanding comments.
You seem terribly defensive of Carly.
This is why the TPP is being kept secret. There are bad things in the TPP that the administration doesn't want people to have time to react to and to try and change. We've seen before what happens, particularly with this administration, when a law is passed with little or no review. There is simply no reason why the fine print in the TPP agreement should not be disclosed now while our legislators have a chance to demand the bad things in the TPP either be removed or get changed.
There you go again not impugning Ms. Fiorina's motives. And for the record, I am not impugning your motivations. I am just respectfully suggesting that you are a very gullible person.
I think you may need more tin foil.
To anyone reading this thread, TPA is not a trade agreement. But it does insure that the public is allowed a 60 day viewing period before any subsequent trade bill, be it TPP or any other, is put to a vote by Congress.
TPA puts an trade deal in the hands of Congress, not the POTUS.
As for whether or not trade agreements are read or not is not verifiable.
I know Cruz read it because he said as much.
Given that under TPA, all trade agreements are to have a 60-day public viewing period, and TPP is not up for a vote today, why is the question of whether or a member of Congress has read it now?
Carly is not involved with Congress and the legislation process. She is far removed from what is transpiring. It is very easy to make demands from the bleachers.
She’s a citizen. She should have the right to read bills before congress. She shouldn’t be told to have blind trust. I sure don’t.
She will if TPA is passed.
She and everyone else will have a public viewing for 60-days.
Like it says on our currency - In God We Trust.
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