Bipartisanship Reaming America. (1 Viewer)

[Dr Oadi]

WASHINGTON -- Congress tax committees announced an agreement Thursday to speed through a bill to give President Barack Obama the fast-track authority that he will need to push mammoth new trade deals through Congress.

While many believed a deal was in the works, news that it was actually done came as a surprise to members of both the House Ways and Means Committee and the Senate Finance Committee, which had been called to a hearing on the deal less than 12 hours earlier.

The fast-track authority would likely pave the way for both the controversial Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership agreement with the European Union and the Trans-Pacific Partnership with a dozen Asian nations. Both deals are vastly larger than NAFTA, and would involve about two-thirds of the entire worlds economy. Currently, the United States has trade agreements covering just 10 percent of world trade.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/16/fast-track-trade_n_7078804.html

 

[bostonfred]

the trade promotion authority bill, or TPA, would allow the White House to cut new trade deals with Asian and European nations, and then pass them through Congress using expedited procedures. Under these rules, the deals cannot be amended or obstructed, and they get a simple up-or-down vote.

so congress can't hold up a trade bill by demanding pork or unrelated legislation but they can still vote no?

 

[Dr Oadi]

the trade promotion authority bill, or TPA, would allow the White House to cut new trade deals with Asian and European nations, and then pass them through Congress using expedited procedures. Under these rules, the deals cannot be amended or obstructed, and they get a simple up-or-down vote.

so congress can't hold up a trade bill by demanding pork or unrelated legislation but they can still vote no?

Republicans fight Obama tooth and nail but can grease the skids whenever big business comes-a-calling.

 

[msommer]

the trade promotion authority bill, or TPA, would allow the White House to cut new trade deals with Asian and European nations, and then pass them through Congress using expedited procedures. Under these rules, the deals cannot be amended or obstructed, and they get a simple up-or-down vote.

so congress can't hold up a trade bill by demanding pork or unrelated legislation but they can still vote no?

I can see how this is a real defeat for democracy. And a honda

 

[Dr Oadi]

the trade promotion authority bill, or TPA, would allow the White House to cut new trade deals with Asian and European nations, and then pass them through Congress using expedited procedures. Under these rules, the deals cannot be amended or obstructed, and they get a simple up-or-down vote.

so congress can't hold up a trade bill by demanding pork or unrelated legislation but they can still vote no?

I can see how this is a real defeat for democracy. And a honda

A honda called NAFTa which two decades later has ten million people who it was suppose to help soon getting work visas for the United States.

 

[NCCommish]

the trade promotion authority bill, or TPA, would allow the White House to cut new trade deals with Asian and European nations, and then pass them through Congress using expedited procedures. Under these rules, the deals cannot be amended or obstructed, and they get a simple up-or-down vote.

so congress can't hold up a trade bill by demanding pork or unrelated legislation but they can still vote no?

I can see how this is a real defeat for democracy. And a honda

A honda called NAFTa which two decades later has ten million people who it was suppose to help soon getting work visas for the United States.

Actually we are already discussing this in another thread.