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This will help GOTV - Obama: "Labor unions...they are not happy with me on this"
Obama 'cautiously optimistic' on TPP trade deal
2/22/16
President Obama said he is “cautiously optimistic” that Congress will pass his signature Pacific Rim trade deal, but he acknowledged opposition in both parties and election-year politics could stall the pact.
“I am cautiously optimistic that we can still get it done,” Obama told a gathering of the National Governors Association at the White House.
Facing opposition from labor unions and Democratic leaders in Congress, the president said he would rely on a coalition of pro-trade Democrats and Republicans in Congress to advance the 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal.
“Labor unions — and I am a big labor guy — they are not happy with me on this,” Obama said.
The president said that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) “have been supportive of this trade deal” though they have “concerns along the margins.”
Obama said he would send the agreement to Congress for a vote “at some point this year,” but did not indicate a specific date.
If Congress does ratify the agreement, it would be a major legacy-defining accomplishment for Obama.
The massive trade deal comprises 40 percent of the world economy and it would be a significant step toward achieving his administration’s pivot toward Asia.
But the agreement faces staunch opposition both Republicans and Democrats in Congress.
........read the rest~
http://thehill.com/policy/finance/270273-obama-cautiously-optimistic-on-tpp-trade-deal
2/22/16
President Obama said he is “cautiously optimistic” that Congress will pass his signature Pacific Rim trade deal, but he acknowledged opposition in both parties and election-year politics could stall the pact.
“I am cautiously optimistic that we can still get it done,” Obama told a gathering of the National Governors Association at the White House.
Facing opposition from labor unions and Democratic leaders in Congress, the president said he would rely on a coalition of pro-trade Democrats and Republicans in Congress to advance the 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal.
“Labor unions — and I am a big labor guy — they are not happy with me on this,” Obama said.
The president said that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) “have been supportive of this trade deal” though they have “concerns along the margins.”
Obama said he would send the agreement to Congress for a vote “at some point this year,” but did not indicate a specific date.
If Congress does ratify the agreement, it would be a major legacy-defining accomplishment for Obama.
The massive trade deal comprises 40 percent of the world economy and it would be a significant step toward achieving his administration’s pivot toward Asia.
But the agreement faces staunch opposition both Republicans and Democrats in Congress.
........read the rest~
http://thehill.com/policy/finance/270273-obama-cautiously-optimistic-on-tpp-trade-deal
You know, some years back, I heard some good news. Despite the fact that Bill Clinton opened up China to the WTO & we lost much of our manufacturing to them, the Chinese were getting a taste of middle class & wanted more & would start demanding higher wages.
I read that the jobs would start to come back to the US because of this.
But no, my Democratic president who ran as a "progressive" president is opening up new countries for trade with slave wages like China used to be. So no, the jobs won't be coming back to the US after all.
Why do they think people will still line up behind them when they keeping ripping away jobs from US????
GO Bernie! Go "Made in the USA"!!!!!!!!!
Make your primary vote count. Hillary is all in for this TPP. She helped draft it when she was SoS, so of course she is.
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I never miss an opportunity to remind people Obama was a center right moderate, even as he ran. 
And it still does. We exported our manufacturing.
but too painful to post it all. 
So proud he insisted on keeping such a country in the agreement.
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