[Enemy Of The State]

God Help us! The President should not have sole authority to negotiate trade. I dont like this idea one bit!

[Enemy Of The State]

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[Cacophonous]

The President should not have sole authority to negotiate trade. I dont like this idea one bit!

I agree completely. It is clearly unConstitutional.

[weikel]

Trade cannot be neogatiated without fast track the legislature still has up or down power I don't like congress anyway I wouldn't trust congress to shovel **** outta my driveway.

[B4Ranch]

I may be wrong but to me this is a move in the direction of dictatorship. (thinking of a future President)

[Alpha]

This is clearly bad. Regardless of whether congress has the power to say "yea" or "nay". Once plans have been made then the ARM TWISTING begins. So guess what congress will vote? Congress' involvement will be basically to rubber stamp what ever King George wants.

[OldFriend]

Calm down.......the congress has the right to accept or reject any deal just not to alter it. Can you imagine what would happen if all those porkers began changing this that and the other thing on every trade deal?

[skeeter]

An up or down vote, good. They ought to extend this system to the budget process as well.

[katana]

Without this authority there is virtually no chance whatsoever of successfully negotiating a trade agreement with any country. Given the chance, Congress will amend any agreement to death and force repeated re-negotiation with the countries involved.

Under "Fast Track" Congress still has final authority to accept or reject any trade agreement the administration negotiates. The opponents of Fast Track are those politicians who, like the trade unions and other protectionists, do not want any agreement, anytime, with anybody. That is a valid political position to take, and I assume it is one you agree with. That's fine. Even Mr. Smoot and Mr. Hawley had rights to their opinions.

But speaking as someone whose livelihood depends on foreign trade, I want the president to be able to negotiate without Congress breathing down his neck, but fully accept that they must and should have the last word.

[Honorary Serb]

United States President George W Bush won "fast-track" trade negotiating authority on Thursday in an extremely close, mainly partisan vote in the House of Representatives.

Score one big victory for the New World Order--that "beyond the nation-state", only-economics-counts international agglomerate that gave us secret WTO tribunals, the kangaroo "court" in the Hague, the alliance of antichrist with militant islam, and September 11th.

When clinton was in power, the Republicans worked to defeat "fast track". Now that we have Bush, they work to pass it. It makes no difference, whoever is President. If "free trade" and other NWO provisions are enacted, the international financial elitists win and the rest of us lose!!!!

May the Lord help us defeat "fast track" in the Senate!!!