Ted Cruz: Jeff Sessions is WRONG about ObamaTrade deal – [FULL AUDIO]
6-12-2015
Ted Cruz was on with Jeff Kuhner this morning and answered some tough questions about why he supports the TPA/TPP agreements. One of the questions was specifically about what Jeff Sessions has been saying about the trade deal and Cruz blatantly said that what Sessions has been saying is not accurate. In short, he said that the US is not ceding any sovereignty to any transnational commission, that it has no power to bind the US with any law or agreement.
The interview is 24 minutes long and I urge you to listen to the whole thing. But if you want to skip ahead to the Q&A about Jeff Sessions take on this, it begins around 16:10.
Listen:
http://therightscoop.com/ted-cruz-jeff-sessions-is-wrong-about-obamatrade-deal-full-audio/
Calm the TPP Panic: Congress Has Five Months to Vote Down Obamatrade-Andrew C. McCarthy
6-12-2015
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/419670/obamatrade-can%27t-become-law-secretly
“US is not ceding any sovereignty to any transnational commission, that it has no power to bind the US with any law or agreement.”
GATT demonstrably does just that - bind the US to rulings of a transnational commission. Obviously, with all the secrecy, TPP is much more severe.
If, as promoters amazingly suggest, the President had more powers without fast-track, he would veto it. The authority granted in “Trade Promotion Authority” is authority transferred from Congress to the Executive and, ultimately, to international bureaucrats. The entire purpose of fast-track is for Congress to surrender its power to the Executive for six years. Legislative concessions include: control over the content of legislation, the power to fully consider that legislation on the floor, the power to keep debate open until Senate cloture is invoked, and the constitutional requirement that treaties receive a two-thirds vote. Legislation cannot even be amended.
Do we really need to give the WH, regardless of who is in it, fast track authority?