TPA exists solely for Obama to get around the Constitutional provision that a treaty requires a two-thirds vote of the Senate. If you notice, politicians will slip and refer to the trade bill as a treaty. TPA is deception.
You obviously didn’t watch the Cruz video.
There’s two ways of making law. TPA utilizes the second approach of having to pass both Houses of Congress / President sign to become law. Somehow this has method has been deemed a “rubber stamp” compared to the 2/3 requirement in just the Senate.
How is TPA going to help Obama get around the leftist Democrats in the House (and Senate) beholden to their Union bosses? He couldn’t even get them to just vote to give him the TPA authority to begin with. If the Union bosses don’t like TPP, it’s not getting their votes. And if in the 60 days there’s a bunch of crap pointed out that looks like garbage (climate change, immigration, etc) there’s enough conservative members in the House that would join them (all be it on different reasons) to kill the bill and send Bozo back to the drawing board.
As Cruz also pointed out, when trade bills involve tarrifs and other commerce-clause related items, it makes logical sense that the House should have a say in the matter. To me it looks like the House (not Obozo) is getting the “additional” power which really isn’t additional because they have a Constitutional right to address issues of commerce.