Posted on 10/14/2015 6:15:52 PM PDT by Amntn
One of the nation’s top labor leaders on Wednesday called on the Obama administration to immediately release the text of a far-reaching trade deal that spans the Pacific Rim to Latin America.
AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka wrote a letter to President Obama arguing that stakeholders, lawmakers and the American public need to see the final text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) to start what is expected to be a long process of evaluating the deal brokered by the United States and 11 other nations.
House and Senate Democrats have made similar appeals since the pact was brokered a week ago during a final round of negotiations in Atlanta.
Trumka said now that the talks are concluded he sees no reason to delay the public release of the TPP text after years of waiting for full access to the agreement's details.
"In my experience, when there is such good news to share, there is no need for secrecy," Trumka wrote. "If TPP will do for the American middle class all that USTR claims, releasing the text would be the single best way to prove that."
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Im sure its not for the same reasons.
This transparent administration is bound to release all.
Why worry!?
Right. LOL
What? Trumka wants the most transparent administration in history to release secret pacts? What is he thinking?
Five to ten more points for Trump in the polls once these details are released to the public and debated.
Yeah the guy’s a thug but even a broken clock is right twice a day (old fashioned clock that is.)
30 days will be the holiday season starting up when n one is paying attention,
Maybe if Barry can locate his copy of the TPP, and all its ancillary agreements, he can put his bony fingers on his college and law school transcripts and SAT and LSAT scores as well. Inquiring minds want to know.
You would think that visiting the Obama White House at least once a week for the past seven years like Trumka continues to do would make this request unnecessary.
Trumka obviously got outbid.
Nothing to worry about, 0bama has your back, Trumpka.
It’s nothing short of ridiculously stupid that the pres of this union finds out his information from a TeeVee debate, isn’t it?
What a galoot.
“30 days will be the holiday season starting up when n one is paying attention”
Part of the Republican plan.
Yep. Disgusting.
politics makes strange bed-foes
got his back in cross hairs, huh.
even trump is friendlier to trumka.
Trumka’s been out thugged by Barry et. al.
Shows just how stupid big labor is.
Many people will still pay attention. And Congress will also be in recess during the holidays, so it will be into 2016 before it's taken up there. I think there is a minimum number of days the full text must be public before it can be voted on. And it could well be strategically delayed in the House by a few dozen Republicans and the Democrats and maybe a new Speaker.
So I suppose Cruz is voting for this as well?
More kabuki theater.
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