Posted on 11/02/2016 1:20:06 AM PDT by combat_boots
U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman says Congress has the votes to pass the Trans Pacific Partnership agreement if it is brought up for a vote.
Hillary Clinton was a vocal proponent of the TPP–having reportedly praised the deal at least 45 times–and played a “leading part in drafting” the deal before she was eventually forced to distance herself from her prior support for political reasons.
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has previously argued that Clinton only says she’s against the TPP because she was “shamed” into doing so, and has warned that, if she is elected President, Clinton “will immediately approve it [TPP] if it is put before her.”
“Here’s how it would go,” Trump has explained, “She would make a small token change, declare the pact fixed, and ram it through. That’s why Hillary is now only saying she has problems with the TPP ‘in its current form,’ – ensuring that she can rush to embrace it again at her earliest opportunity.”
Indeed, during a recent CNBC interview, Bill Clinton said that the case for approving the TPP is “clear.” Similarly, just last week, Clinton’s running mate, Sen. Tim Kaine, seemed to leave the door open to the possibility that a Hillary Clinton administration would pass an Asian trade deal similar to the TPP, declaring “you never close the door” on passing this type of multi-national trade deal...
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The Corporatist Uniparty can pass it during a ‘lame duck’ session after the election.......
Trump promised to stop TPP and renegotiate other bad for America trade deals like Clinton's NAFTA
Get out the vote for Trump!
Exactly
Hopefully Sander’s voters will see the light and vote Trump.
They always did have the votes. They’re not fooling anybody.
Trump is going to win.
Are they already planning to throw a spanner in the works by bringing up that travesty up for a certain vote?
Every republican had better be smart and vote no...
“Are they already planning to throw a spanner in the works by bringing up that travesty up for a certain vote?”
Well “the fat will be in the fire” if they do after Trump becomes the president-elect next week.
That would be funny if it wasn’t laughable in the extreme.
It would be like voting to get US out of the UN. Not very likely although certainly in our best interest.
On top of that, Republicans voting what some of the people want, but in our best interest as a country? Hmmmm let me not hold my breath.
Since the Constitution doesn’t mention “agreements” or “partnerships”, I think this is a “treaty” and would need Senate ratification.
The Constitution can’t be modified with treaties.
This monster is following the Corker agreement strategy. TPA was passed by the Senate, the enabling act.
Fortunately it appears Trump will be there to veto it. ::)
What if they do it in the upcoming lame duck session?
With Trump as President elect he will warn them off. They won’t dare do it.
I don’t think ryan will care.
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