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Related: About this forumBernie Sanders: I want to work with Clinton on trade
June 14, 2015, 12:47 PM ( Face the Nation )
** Is Sanders good at this or what? lol..it's an excellent strategy
Democrats in Congress dealt a blow to President Obama's agenda last week when they blocked a bill to fast-track the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a massive free-trade deal with Asia he has been negotiating.
But that victory isn't enough for Sen. Bernie Sanders, the independent senator from Vermont who is running for the Democratic nomination. He also wants his fellow Democratic candidate, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, to join the coalition of lawmakers who disagree with the president on trade.
"Corporate America and Wall Street are going to bring that bill back to the House next week. I would hope very much that Secretary Clinton will side with every union in this country, virtually every environmental group, many religious groups, and say that this TPP policy is a disaster, that it must be defeated, and that we need to regroup and come up with a trade policy which demands that corporate America start investing in this country rather than in countries all over the world. So I look forward to working with the secretary on this issue," Sanders said Sunday on CBS' "Face the Nation."
In a separate interview, Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook rejected the suggestion that his boss has been on the sidelines of the trade issue.
"There will be no tougher fighter at the negotiating table for every day Americans when these trade agreements are being negotiated, so families can trust her to fight hard for them in any of these agreements but Hillary has been abundantly clear about where she stands on the issue of trade," Mook said.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/bernie-sanders-i-want-to-work-with-hillary-clinton-on-trade/
leftofcool
(19,460 posts)Jefferson23
(30,099 posts)It is another way for him to put pressure for her to take a stand before it all goes down.
A very good strategy he is using..implying she means what she has said given her speech yesterday.
leftofcool
(19,460 posts)She will stay bound to her oath as SOS and wait until it actually exists before she decides to either revise or dump it.
Jefferson23
(30,099 posts)What she decides to do is her business but she will not be able to control
how voters interpret it.
Indepatriot
(1,253 posts)cali
(114,904 posts)while not coming off as attacking her
PearliePoo2
(7,768 posts)Really?
Refresh my memory, if you please.
NorthCarolina
(11,197 posts)I know I don't know for sure, do you? I know that I suspect she is FOR it since according to Bloomberg News
http://www.bloomberg.com/bw/articles/2013-01-10/hillary-clintons-business-legacy-at-the-state-department#p2
stonecutter357
(12,697 posts)Indepatriot
(1,253 posts)Jefferson23
(30,099 posts)As pressure increases for 2016 presidential contender Hillary Clinton to say where she stands on the pending Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal, her ties to avid TPP supporters wont escape notice.
One glaring example: A linked trifecta consisting of the TPP, the mega-investment firm Morgan Stanley, and the Clinton family that involves campaign contributions, former members of Bill Clintons administration and large donations to the Clintons foundation.
Morgan Stanley is one of many U.S. companies supporting the TPP. Its a member of the U.S. Business Coalition for TPP, and since 2013 the firm has lobbied on issues pertaining to the agreement. According to reports filed by the company and its lobbyists, Morgan Stanley spent $4.04 million in 2013, $4.82 million in 2014 and $530,000 in 2015 (thus far) lobbying on a slew of issues, including TPP. Lobbying disclosure rules dont require a breakdown of how much is spent on any particular matter, so its impossible to know exactly how much of Morgan Stanleys budget was devoted to the pending deal.
Morgan Stanleys role in the Clinton orbit is multifaceted. Thomas R. Nides, the firms current vice president, was deputy secretary of state for management under Clinton and is considered a close confidant, though he wont be taking up a formal role in her 2016 campaign. Nides was also Morgan Stanleys chief operating and administrative officer prior to joining the State Department, and served as chief-of-staff to former U.S. Trade Representative Mickey Kantor in the 1990s.
Then there are two prominent alumni of former President Bill Clintons administration who serve on Morgan Stanleys board of directors: Erskine Bowles (its lead director) and Laura Tyson.
Bowles, a fiscal hawk known for his 2010 Simpson-Bowles deficit reduction plan with former Sen. Alan Simpson (R-Wyo.), served as administrator of the Small Business Administration and as Clintons chief-of-staff. He also sits on the board of directors at Facebook, another member of the U.S. Business Coalition for TPP.
According to lobbying reports, Facebook spent $1.48 million in 2013, $9.34 million in 2014 and $2.44 million in 2015 (thus far); trade issues, including free trade agreements and trade promotion authority, were prominent on the reports.
Tyson, for her part, was Bill Clintons first chair of the Council of Economic Advisers (CEA), and in March, Tyson a longtime University of California at Berkeley professor sent a letter to Congress that she wrote with other former CEA chairs advocating in favor of the TPP and trade promotion authority.
Tyson supported Hillary Clinton during her 2008 presidential campaign, and was far from the only person tied to Morgan Stanley to do so. In fact, over the course of Hilary Clintons political career two successful Senate campaigns and a failed presidential bid she has received more than $543,000 from the companys PAC and employees, making it her sixth biggest donor.
Morgan Stanley has also been a generous supporter of the Clintons foundation work.
In September 2014, Morgan Stanley announced that it, along with the Local Initiatives Support Corp. (LISC) and CDC Small Business Finance, had made a $25 million Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) Commitment to Action for an expansion of the Job Creation and Community Revitalization Fund.
http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2015/05/hillary-clinton-morgan-stanley-and-tpp-a-free-trade-triumvirate/
Indepatriot
(1,253 posts)Jefferson23
(30,099 posts)Sunlei
(22,651 posts)will have US Corps trade with all the Asian-Pacific nations.
But there will be no protections for workers except what Congress will allow. IMO, our congress is on the side of Corporations and not the side of Americas workers.
Congress will not even raise the Federal minimum wage for American workers. That is (was) their job.