Posted on 06/17/2015 2:40:05 PM PDT by familyop
On Friday, Congress disrupted President Obama’s plan for a sweeping transfer of U.S. sovereignty to an unaccountable group of foreign busybodies. Hurray for the stalwart Americans who resisted the demands of Obama, the Republican leadership, and the big-donor claque, but Speaker Boehner plans to give Congress another chance this week to make this dangerous mistake.
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) would turn over to globalists the power to issue regulations about U.S. trade, immigration, the environment, labor and commerce. It’s called a “living agreement” which means the globalists can amend and change the text of the so-called agreement after it has gone into effect.
That reminds me of our supremacist judges who invented the term of a “living” Constitution, which they can rewrite to comport with their own updated ideology. The globalists claim that this “living” document (TPP), now called Obamatrade, has all the powers of a treaty to commit the U.S. to new foreign obligations, although it certainly did not comply with any U.S. constitutional provisions for treaty ratification.
Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL) has frankly warned about this giveaway of U.S. sovereignty. Not only would Congress give up its powers to negotiate and write the terms of a treaty, but Congress also gives up its power to debate and amend the deal, to apply a cloture vote in the Senate, and to require a two-thirds vote in the Senate.
The secrecy wrapped around TPP is appallingly un-American. Whatever happened to Obama’s promise of “transparency”? TPP was negotiated and agreed to by Obama’s trade representative and a bunch of foreigners in a secret room, and the American people are not allowed to know the details until after it’s a done deal.
TPP puts us in a new political and economic union before a single private citizen is told about it and with public opinion running five to one against it. Remember when Nancy Pelosi said we had to pass Obamacare in order to find out what is in it?
Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA) warns, “TPP calls for the formation of a permanent political and economic union known as the Trans-Pacific Partnership Commission, which will have power to issue regulations impacting not only trade but immigration, the environment, labor and commerce. He added, Congress “will have surrendered its legislative prerogatives. Before a word, line, paragraph, or page of this plan is made public, Congress will have even agreed to give up its treaty powers.”
Senator Sessions made it even more emphatic, saying that Fast Track “authorizes the President to form a new transnational governance structure…. it confers the power to both compel and restrict changes to U.S. policy, to commit the U.S. to international obligations, and to cede sovereign authority to a foreign body.” This new global body could even add new member countries (such as China).
Senator Sessions continued: “Congress would be pre-clearing a political and economic union before a word of that arrangement has been made available to a single private citizen. This has the earmarks of a nascent European Union,” and Americans certainly don’t want to belong to a European union (that’s why we fought the American Revolution).
Rep. Hunter also warns that the new global governance institution would be “authorized to issue policies and regulations affecting our economy, our manufacturers, our workers, our immigration procedures, as well as current, labor and environmental practices.”
TPP is separating us from the U.S. Constitution and from national sovereignty and replacing both with a global governance superstructure. TPP has wrapped its audacious global governance plan in the mantle called “free trade,” which is a misnomer if there ever was one.
“Free trade” means Americans must obey a bunch of rules written by foreigners (which we can’t veto), but China can ignore those rules. TPP didn’t even touch the subject of currency manipulation against us by Asian countries.
While the American people are denied the right to read TPP, thanks to leaks from WikiLeaks we have learned that Obamatrade includes ten pages to unilaterally alter our current U.S. immigration law. Senator Sessions says TPP will give Obama a backdoor to increase immigration, and the same lobbyists who are pushing for Obamatrade are demanding open borders.
Republicans need a bold program to bring back jobs that have been lost to Asian countries. Michele Bachmann summed up a pro-American verdict on TPP: “I hate it. It would empower the president, cut out congressional influence, and lead to American jobs leaving the U.S.”
Oh, and NAFTA has stopped us from labeling the country of origin on our meat, but TPP is supposed to be much more proactively restrictive.
I read a timeline that claimed that. Doing a search showed that the claim that TPP is almost complete has been said going back to 2013. I don’t know when it will be complete, but when it is, if we have TPA, we will get to review it for 60 days before the President can sign it. Once he signs it, Congress has another 30 days to study it and vote.
Yeah, but with TPA we took away Congress’s real power over it—a two-thirds senate vote. And, they wouldn’t have pushed TPA through if TPP weren’t ready. I fully expect them now to ram through TiSA and TiPS, or whatever it is called now, sooner rather than later as well.
Please see Post “TPP Trade Deal Could Br Pushed Into 2017”.
An old article that still put the odds at better than 50/50, based on concern that the TPA wouldn’t pass the House—which it still did.
The article was updated 3 days ago.
Where?
The very thing many on FR have been railing against!
This is what the bill says on sovereignty...
SEC. 108. Sovereignty.
Any comment?
See 69 for reference.
I knew that language had been included. I would like to read the Cruz/Sessions immigration language.
I think that in addition to what was already in previous TPA bills, this should reassure those concerned about our sovereignty being compromised. Thank you for posting this.
Why is TPP secret? Bush released the text of his trade agreement before requesting a TPA.
Given that recent history, why did the GOP Congress not demand release of a final TPP before approving TPA?
Obama and the GOP were deliberately hiding the facts from the American people and you are supporting those actions?
It’s shameful that the GOP isenabling and standing with Barack Obama but it is what it is. History will note this abdication by the GOP in the face of a lawless POTUS.
I read a timeline that claimed that. Doing a search showed that the claim that TPP is almost complete has been said going back to 2013. I don’t know when it will be complete, but when it is, if we have TPA, we will get to review it for 60 days before the President can sign it.
The Australian trade minister said TPP is basically done and only one week of negotiations are left.
“We are literally one week of negotiation away from completing this extraordinary deal across 12 countries and 40 per cent of the world’s GDP,” said Andrew Robb, Australia’s trade minister.
FReeper conservativejoy is just trying to minimize the impact of Cruz’s TPA support and enabling of Obamatrade. Gather you own facts before analyzing what the Cruz campaign says because their statements are full of half truths and dissembling.
Sounds good. The agreement, of course, would submit new laws on the US. Don’t know, but I’d expect there’d be other terms of the agree established by international mechanisms on a continuing basis, and section (c) only pertains to dispute mechanisms.
Doesn’t really matter if the “living” agreement language is still in there, since that was simply descriptive of what the nature of these deals is.
And, a larger issue of passage is there. Any of these deals would very much be treaties, so they should require a direct two-thirds vote by the senate. (If we somehow bundle taxes in there, then it should also originate in the house—but still it shouldn’t reduce any vote requirements of the senate.
I’m all for free trade, but I am not in an way for this move toward overlapping, EU-like regional quasi-governments—so I’m not sure what language could be added to TPA to make me favor it.
I’m curious—how can it be Cruz/Sessions language, since Sessions still opposes TPA? (Jeff Sessions, that is.)
Thanks.
And I agree, Cruz and his campaign insulting our intelligence with bogus arguments on this is even more problematic than his support of it.
Cruz and Sessions conferred together in the writing of it.
Can you steer me to an article on that?
It was in a speech Cruz gave and I’m trying to determine which one. He said that he had conferred with Sessions on the Amendment to the Senate bill. That Amendment did not get voted on, but he said that the language would likely be included in the House bill, which is what happened.
S.Amdt.1384 to S.Amdt.1221 (a little over 1/2 way down) [Page S3081/2]
SA 1384. Mr. HATCH (for Mr. Cruz (for himself, Mr. Grassley, Mr. Sullivan, Mr. Cotton, Mr. Isakson, Mr. Boozman, and Mr. Inhofe)) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA 1221 proposed by Mr. Hatch to the bill H.R. 1314, to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for a right to an administrative appeal relating to adverse determinations of tax-exempt status of certain organizations; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:
At the end of section 102(a), add the following:
As you can see from the bill text link I gave section 102(a) ends at (13). There is no (14).
Keep in mind the dates...
06/12/2015 On motion to concur in portion of Senate amendment preceding title II Agreed to by recorded vote: 219 - 211
I can't find anything more current, even on Thomas.
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