Posted on 06/16/2015 1:26:51 PM PDT by cotton1706
After talks with President Barack Obama, top Republican leaders in Congress put together a quick rescue plan Tuesday for highly controversial, White House-backed trade legislation that derailed in the House last week.
Officials said House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., were likely to split the stalled bill into two parts in hopes of sending them to the president separately, with Republicans providing most of the needed votes for one part, and Democrats for the other.
The first would consist of stand-alone legislation strengthening Obama's hand in global trade talks by giving Congress the right to accept or reject any future deal, but not change it. A second measure would renew an expiring program of assistance to workers who lose their jobs because of imports.
The combined bill stalled in the House last week when Democrats, who normally support the assistance program, voted against it in large numbers as a way to bottle up the portions relating to trade deals that organized labor and its allies vehemently oppose.
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This is the kind of thing that makes Trump look much better. So damn tired of these clowns in Washington.
“After talks with President Barack Obama, top Republican leaders in Congress put together a quick rescue plan Tuesday for highly controversial, White House-backed trade legislation that derailed in the House last week. “
So glad I helped put these idiots in charge of Congress last year.
I think a boycott of all C of C member companies is in order.
This ploy isn't going to get past GOP voters.
What a disgrace. I’m NOT voting for another republican. Bernie Sanders, the admitted socialist, is preferable. And that’s saying a lot.
At least Bernie is honest about where he stands.
Yeh while these slimeballs who are currently in power trade away the country for a seat at the NWO table everybody wants to trash Trump.
Really something what the RINOs will do when paid by the corporatist lobby.
That’s why we still have ObamaCare.
Please Massa Barry, we will does anything you say, jest don’t tells our secrets.
You will never see these hacks fight this hard for common sense
conservative issues.
King John ranteth.
If only they put half that effort into getting immigration law enforced.
It is amazing how ingenious the GOP gets when it actually wants to pass something.
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And showing backbone. How many times have they been accused of being spineless?
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