Posted on 06/12/2015 12:41:58 PM PDT by SoConPubbie
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 2/3ds 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
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Secrecy is the issue.
Cruz continued. “That is one specific trade deal that is currently being negotiated. It is separate from TPA. Congress has not voted on TPP, and there’s a great deal of concern about TPP. Now, I have not voted on TPP, and I haven’t decided if I will support it or not, because the negotiation isn’t complete, and I’m going to wait and review and see what the agreement is first before assessing if it would be beneficial or harmful.”
Don’t fall for oldest trick in the book in politics. Obama supports TPA, to make it toxic for anyone on the Right to support it. That gets the measure killed. Obama’s supporting it falsely, to create the very divide on the Right that is happening now.
The worst part are the elected in office willing to pass something
they're not allowed to read first, and they'll do it! Look what Obamacare
has done for the prime example. That alone has set a damning precedence
for both the House and Senate.
IMO, Obamacare was never supposed to get past the Supremes. The Dems were
flabbergasted that it did. We can also know this by how the bill was crafted
and the holes throughout the whole messy thing. They scrambled like rats
on fire trying to spin that thing around to work, and it's still a disaster.
And here we are again, another secret F-up for America to take up the wazoo.
Immaterial. That 60-day period is there for PR purposes, where the public largely is locked out of it.
As Cruz has stated numerous times, he does not support TPP (the trade bill).
What he DOES support is the TPA - TPA is a transparency bill. The TPA is a regular domestic law applied to foreign trade deals. The president does not have to make any trade deal public. And Congress cannot make a trade deal public if the president objects. Congress can change that rule. And that is what TPA attempts to do.
Then let’s see that “Secret Bill” and evaluate it based on what is in it
before congress votes on it.
It may or may not be good for Americans.
However, secrecy is the issue. Let’s see it.
Cruz got some really big donations after he announced his candidacy. That money always come with strings attached.
Also in some respects, Cruz just knows too much about DC. That will actually cause him problems when governing. DC has managed to create the largest debt in galactic history. It would be better to do everything completely different then they are doing now. Lol. Like for example a strict constitutional based government that was able to govern without the largest debt in galactic history.
Like ObamaCARE/DeathCARE is the "Affordable care act".
Congress should be held responsible for their secret bills.
Once again. Let’s see that Secret Bill that only congress members had
the chance to read.
You don’t seem to be getting the point.
We want to read the Secret Bill. That is the issue.
You can talk about 60 days this and 60 days that.
We want to see the Secret Bill.
Good rule.
“I’m a fully paid up Cruz supporter. I’m still on Team Cruz. I’m just not going to pretend that giving 0bama any inch is a good idea. Ever.”
I agree. Obama needs to have his wings clipped, not given more power. Unless one argues that Obama will work in the interests of America, or that Congress has Obama by the short and curlies. Neither is true, so this is a bad idea.
The secrecy also tells you they are doing something anti-American. Love Cruz, but he’s wrong in this.
Ted Cruz is a liar.
Yep, that is something to be considered. We have a bad man in a place of power.
My preference is that our representatives not give this man any further power to abuse at all. Actually, my true preference is that our government stop doing all things, but I realize this is not something that is likely to occur.
Now I ask myself this. Do I want to hold accountable other people elected to government advancing ideas that they believe in due to the potential of our damned president abusing those ideas?
Even if those people advancing those ideas that they believe in are good people who I would like to place trust in?
Do I want to say that Ted Cruz is ineligible to be president because he believes in free trade and TPA, and in advancing those ideas he enables Obama to do dastardly things?
I’m not sure it is the proper thing to do to hold Ted Cruz responsible for what Obama may or may not do.
You know, do I still trust Ted Cruz? Yes, I do.
We’ll never break out of this mess we’re in until people grow the hell up and face that fact.
“Who knows what’s in the classified sections?”
Who is a trade agreement kept classified from? The Asian governments know what is in it. The multinationals who wrote it know whats in it. And the US Presidency knows whats in it.
The only people who may not read it, is the American people. Dows anybody know how deranged it is that we are passing a law that cannot be examined at every stage of the process?
Bingo! Time will prove it, and don't forget about TiSA and T-TIP will which will be rammed home the same way. (And anything else that this regime wants to shove through via TPA!)
A capital idea! I would like to read it, myself. It’s just that I am up to my eye brows and up half the night in my reading now! I hope you do read it. You can give us a book report and review!
I’m still reading a little bit about Opus Dei, a book by Scott Hahn, and another small little book by the saintly little priest Escrivel, (sp) who started Opus Dei, and then constantly reading and re-reading True Devotion to Mary, by St. Louis de Monfort! And, also, Bootleggers Boy, by OU coach, Barry Switzer! (What a page turner THAT is!) :)
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"Others will say Jesus is a fraud".
Red Cruz uses that approach too.
He equates his own, self-righteousness with Biblical Righteousness.
And it's OFFENSIVE TO EVERY PERSON IN AMERICA.
Every one of us.
He's the world's number one hypocrite and the Republican Obmama.
Anyone whose plumb line on public policy is the political fortunes of any single politician has a serious problem.
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