A vote for TPA is a vote for TPP. If TPA passes, then TPP is a done deal.
By voting for TPA, Cruz has voted for the TPP. It is like the cloture votes. A vote for cloture on a fillibustered bill is a vote for the bill itself. Cruz knows that. He’s said it dozens of times.
Cruz supports this top secret deal and even if he later votes against it, it is merely going to be a CYA vote so he can tell all those sheeple that he opposed it.
TPA is fast track.
Under fast track, any trade bill can be kept secret until the final 24 hours before the final vote. Then there are no amendments allowed, and, in fact, any debate is controlled.
Then there is the vote.
Is there any way that this is a sane method for running a government?
"The Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) would fast-track at least three highly secretive trade deals—specifically the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP), the Trade in Services Agreement (TiSA), and the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (T-TIP)—and potentially more deals.
Right now, TiSA and T-TIP text are completely secretive and unavailable for even members of Congress to read while TPP text is available for members to review—although they need to go to a secret room inside the Capitol where only members of Congress and certain staffers high-level security clearances, who can only go when members are present, can read the bill."
This TPA is opening the floodgates for a whole lotta hurt to be inflicted on this Nation.