The GOP will push for a clean fast-track authority for TPP

Days after the House dealt a setback to President Barack Obama’s trade agenda, GOP leadership is considering plowing ahead with stand-alone legislation that would give the president so-called fast-track authority to shepherd trade deals through Congress.

The House could take up the fast-track bill as early as this week, two House GOP aides told The Huffington Post, after which it would be sent to the Senate. The bill, also known as Trade Promotion Authority, would allow Obama to speed major trade deals, like the one he is currently negotiating with 11 Pacific nations, through Congress without filibuster threats or amendments.

The same fast-track bill passed the House on Friday by a vote of 219-211, with 28 Democrats voting in favor. But it was attached to legislation providing funding for Trade Adjustment Assistance, a program that aids workers who lose their jobs as a result of trade deals. An overwhelming majority of Democrats voted TAA down in an effort to kill Obama’s trade agenda, rendering the fast-track approval essentially irrelevant.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/06/16/gop-trade-bill_n_7598488.html?ir=Politics


See.... When will the media say that it is the GOP selling the United States people and workers out? It is the GOP pushing to destroy the constitution and congress's ability to write trade agreements. It is the GOP that wants to give foreign courts the right to rule over US sovereignty. It is the GOP that wants to give control over what goes into your food to outside judicial agencies.