Posted on 06/11/2015 5:30:41 PM PDT by xzins
Sessions’ final “critical alert,” one of several he’s issued throughout the Obamatrade process, shows House Ways and Means Committee chairman Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI)60% has been engaged in deception as he attempts to guide Obamatrade’s passage through the House.
“Promoters of fast-track executive authority have relied on semantic obfuscation in an effort to deny the obvious: the President’s top priority is obtaining fast-track authority because he knows it will expand his powers and allow him to cement his legacy through the formation of a new political and economic union,” Sessions said.
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.
“By contrast, without fast-track, Congress retains all of its legislative powers, individual members retain all of their procedural tools, and every single line, jot, and tittle of trade text is publicly available before any congressional action is taken,” Sessions said.
Another obfuscation is the suggestion that TPP doesn’t yet exist. To the contrary, it has been under negotiation for six years and lawmakers can enter a closed-door, walled-off chamber to review it.
“The so-called negotiating objectives in the fast-track bill are merely for show,” Nucor Steel chairman emeritus Dan DiMicco says, according to Sessions. “The President can and does sign the agreement before Congress views or votes on it.”
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BS. Of course Congress is ceding its authority to the WH. And what about the American people? What kind of transparency and accountability do they have from their elected officials. The Constitution is being stood on its head. Congress can't even amend the legislation.
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.
So why does the WH need this authority?
Interesting...I saw another post today just like yours. How sad any would see Senator Cruz as a “used car salesman” after all he’s stood for and done.
Absolutely! Why isn't this man running for President?
We need a draft Jeff Sessions petition.
Looks like Ryan is a wolf in sheep’s clothing.
If anyone, including Cruz, votes to surrender power to Obama and votes to move us one step closer to further damaging our economy and surrendering our sovereignty to international councils then that person deserves nothing but our absolute disdain and ridicule.
Ted Cruz is a Traitor and a liar. He and his CFR member wife deserve nothing but absolute scorn.
Time to drop Cruz and move on to deserving candidates. At least his TPA betrayal showed us who he really is before we got far with him in the Primary process.
Cruz lied, Cruz betrayed us, Cruz said one thing and then did another. Now when I see him I just see a liar and a fraud.
Regardless of what he says, he has voted to show he is fine with hiding documents from Congress, voting to increase H1B visas so more Americans here can train their foreign replacements before they are fired, and Cruz has one of the lowest voting attendance rates in the Senate.
When you actually look at what he has done instead of what he says you see that Cruz is actually a TERRIBLE candidate based on what he has actually done.
We already had a lot of Americans vote for somebody that gives good speeches and tells people what they want to hear. That person is now in his 7th year of destroying this country.
And once it is enacted the international councils can then decide to completely change any or all terms and Congress does not get to vote again. Once we are in we are trapped. Have you looked at the TPP documents that have been leaked? They are terrifying.
I’m sure the rest of those other countries will be REALLY concerned with coming up with rules that benefit our country. I’m sure giving up our regulatory sovereignty to international councils will work out really well. And we will be outvoted every time in those councils.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but doesn’t TPA require a 60 vote super majority to defeat subsequent Obama trade deals, like TPP, that have unacceptable features? That’s quite a hurdle to jump which probably explains why none of these fast tracked things have ever been defeated.
Your entire post is excellent.
Cruz has been a profound disappointment. I no longer support him.
Cruz just seems to look worse every day.
I feel like such a fool for initially believing in him before I took a closer look. It’s like they prey off our desire for a real and principled leader to believe in.
“Time to drop Cruz and move on to deserving candidates. At least his TPA betrayal showed us who he really is before we got far with him in the Primary process.”
Yes this is not something I’m going to get past. Its too big of a mistake/betrayal whatever you want to call it.
Sessions is a good man - glad he’s there fighting for Americans...
Remember that everyone else will remember the day Senator Sessions called him and another 61 Senators into account, and they did not stop.
This is a High Crime against the Republic.
We have crossed the Rubicon and there's no way back.
Mine will. RINO supreme.
Thank you xzins, great and informative post.
Cruz had me fooled. I told many people that he was the real deal. Now I am telling as many people as I can that Cruz is just another beltway politician.
cruz is off my list. He sold out the American people.
“I feel like such a fool for initially believing in him before I took a closer look. It’s like they prey off our desire for a real and principled leader to believe in.”
Don’t feel bad. We are all looking for the honest candidate and we are having trouble finding him. I really wish Jeff Sessions would run.
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