Has Mark ever called out his buddy Ted Cruz on trying to have it both ways on TPP? Voting for cloture to move it along and then claiming he’s against it to be on record as opposing it? I’ve typically enjoyed Mark over the years but he’s been irritating me lately. I think he’s another one who doesn’t know how to properly assess this election.
Cruz and Sessions did their best to make TPA a bill that would preempt the problems currently in the TPP bill. Rand Paul and another Senator blocked their immigration language amendment, which was a large part of Cruz’s ultimately voting “No”.
Cruz has never supported TPP(the Trans Pacific Partnership). What he did originally support before ultimately opposing was the TPA (Trade Promotion Authority) which allows all trade deals negotiated by the executive to be given an up or down vote with no amendments. He had originally supported the TPA because it would help the next president (who will hopefully be a conservative) to negotiate good trade deals without the unions being able to gum up the works.