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TexasTowelie

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Wed Aug 17, 2016, 09:36 PM Aug 2016

In shift, Toomey says he'll oppose international trade deal

WASHINGTON -- In a stark reversal, Sen. Pat Toomey (R., Pa.) said Wednesday he will oppose a major international trade deal whose prospects he once hailed, changing course as he faces a tough reelection and simmering voter anger against such pacts.

Toomey, a staunch free-market conservative, has promoted the benefits of international trade and voted last year for a measure seen as crucial to completing the pending Trans-Pacific Partnership between the United States and 11 Pacific Rim nations.

But in an op-ed published Wednesday, Toomey said the details of the deal fall short of his hopes.

"Good deals require good negotiations," he wrote in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. But he said this agreement would not protect innovations by state pharmaceutical companies or open up markets to the state's dairy farmers. "The Obama administration has not gotten a good enough deal for Pennsylvania workers."

Read more: http://www.philly.com/archive/jonathan_tamari/20160818_In_shift__Toomey_says_he_ll_oppose_international_trade_deal.html

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In shift, Toomey says he'll oppose international trade deal (Original Post) TexasTowelie Aug 2016 OP
Of course we want to keep it secret 90-percent Aug 2016 #1

90-percent

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1. Of course we want to keep it secret
Wed Aug 17, 2016, 09:55 PM
Aug 2016

If the public knew what was in it they would be against it.

Public pressure is working! Don't let the Oligarch's sneak though their world is ours alone for the sole purpose of our profit country club conspiracy.

-90% Jimmy

yeah, incoherent. i'll polish tmrw if i remember

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