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AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka testified before the Senate Finance Committee against fast-track authority for the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement with Japan, Australia, and nine other Pacific Rim countries. RICHARD TRUMKA: Key to reforming our trade policies is abolishing the outdated, unaccountable, and undemocratic fast-track process. The Trans-Pacific Partnership now being negotiated by our government includes 12 countries and about 40 percent of world GDP. The TPP is designed to be infinitely expandable. So it could very well be the last trade agreement we negotiate. So it’s especially crucial that we get the terms of this one right. And Mr. Chairman, the...

Here si my idea for a Commercial for the Tea party that might wake up some people and who know could help create a Populist Tea party movement. [Commercial Starts] Narrator: "For years the Democrat Party has said that they problem in Washington is Big Business" [Show pictures of Fat Cats on Wall Street and smoke stacks and Big Lobbyists] Narrator: "And for just as many years the Republican party has sadi that the problem in washington is Big Bloated Government" [Show pictures of the IRS agents and Bureaucratic paper work, money being flushed down the toilet and red tape...

Coburn's Proposals Get KO'd In Senate Spat By Chris Casteel The Oklahoman WASHINGTON - U.S. Sen. Tom Coburn's pork-busting got personal Thursday, prompting the equivalent of a schoolyard brawl in the staid Senate. Though Coburn wound up being pummeled like a new kid who doesn't know the playground rules, he got in a few licks before losing. Coburn, the freshman Republican from Muskogee, started the fight when he tried to knock out some "special projects" from a spending bill, including $500,000 for a sculpture garden at a Seattle art museum and another $950,000 for a parking lot at an art...