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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsConstituents to Senators: Reject Fast Track, or Don't Come Home
Senate expected to take up trade legislation on Tuesday, but labor federation warns: 'Fast Track has gotten even worse since the House got its hands on it.'Washington, DC--(ENEWSPF)--June 22, 2015
By: Deirdre Fulton, staff writer
With the U.S. Senate expected to take up Fast Track, or Trade Promotion Authority, on Tuesday, the stakes are high for progressives who oppose pro-corporate trade deals.
Last week, the House passed a Fast Track bill thatunlike the Senate version passed in Maywas decoupled from Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) legislation. To move Fast Track to President Barack Obama's desk, thereby enabling him to ram through Congress mammoth international pacts like the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) and TransAtlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), the Senate must pass its own standalone Fast Track bill.
With votes scheduled for Tuesday and Wednesday, anti-Fast Trackers are being urged to call their senators, while activists are also organized the #SenatorDontComeHome Twitter storm for Monday afternoon at 1 pm EDT, in which they told lawmakers to block Fast Track or risk alienating constituents.
The Senate is scheduled to take a cloture vote on that legislation on Tuesday, requiring 60 votes to advance the bill for debate. If that vote is successful, the subsequent vote, to actually pass Fast Track, would require a simple majority and is expected to come Wednesday.
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Constituents to Senators: Reject Fast Track, or Don't Come Home (Original Post)
n2doc
Jun 2015
OP
+1,000 This global toxin will kill & disrupt millions of us. Unbelievable how power always wins now.
appalachiablue
Jun 2015
#8
Both of my Virginia senators support this. I contributed to their campaigns, and voted for them.
phylny
Jun 2015
#6
K & R. You said it Virginian, Kaine & Warner disappointed. Can't support anymore.
appalachiablue
Jun 2015
#7
I hope enough of them listen to their constituents - the ones that vote for them, not the ones that fund them.
WillyT
(72,631 posts)2. HUGE K & R !!! - THANK YOU !!!
Cheese Sandwich
(9,086 posts)3. yep.
bbgrunt
(5,281 posts)4. k and r.
bonniebgood
(943 posts)5. I do think this vote would be worst than the Iraq vote. It definately will
kill more people. Signers will have no excuse. I trusted the president is no excuse. why would anyone sign anything without first reading it? Most of congress have law degrees.
appalachiablue
(41,177 posts)8. +1,000 This global toxin will kill & disrupt millions of us. Unbelievable how power always wins now.
Hopefully that will start to change if we can halt the neoliberal free market and free trade cancer and pollution.
phylny
(8,389 posts)6. Both of my Virginia senators support this. I contributed to their campaigns, and voted for them.
Not again.
appalachiablue
(41,177 posts)7. K & R. You said it Virginian, Kaine & Warner disappointed. Can't support anymore.