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    Sessions: People Beg Congress No New Executive Powers For President

    Sessions: People Beg Congress No New Executive Powers For President


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    By Brandon Moseley
    Alabama Political Reporter

    Friday, June 12, US Senator Jeff Sessions commented on what he called a continuing push to grant Obama new Executive powers.

    Senator Sessions said in a statement,“It appears there will be another attempt by Tuesday to force through new executive powers for President Obama…Americans do not want this, did not ask for it, and are pleading from their hearts for their lawmakers to stop it… The movement among Americans toward a decent, honest populism—toward a refocusing on the needs of American citizens and American interests—grows stronger by the day. Every vote to come before Congress, beginning with the next fast-track push, will face this test: does your plan strengthen or weaken the social and economic position of the loyal, everyday working American?”

    Sen. Sessions said, “A vote for TAA next week is a vote to send fast-track to the President’s desk and to grant him these broad new executive authorities. If that happens, it will empower the President to form a Pacific Union encompassing 40 percent of the world’s economy and 12 nations—each with one equal vote. Once the union is formed, foreign bureaucrats will be required to meet regularly to write the Commission’s rules, regulations, and directives—impacting Americans’ jobs, wages, and sovereignty. The union is chartered with a “Living Agreement,” and there is no doubt it will seek to expand its membership and reach over time.”

    The conservative Alabama Senator said on Friday, “Fast-track will not only apply to the Pacific Union, but can expedite an unlimited number of yet, unseen international compacts for six years. There are already plans to advance through fast-track the Trade in Services Agreement, the goal of which includes labor mobility among more than 50 nations, further eroding the ability of the American people to control their own affairs. Americans do not want this, did not ask for it, and are pleading from their hearts for their lawmakers to stop it.”

    Sessions continued, “The same people projecting the benefits of leaping into a colossal new economic union could not even accurately predict the impact of a standalone agreement with South Korea. The latter deal, which promised to boost our exports to them $10 billion, instead only budged them less than $1 billion, while South Korea’s imports to us increased more than $12 billion, nearly doubling our trading deficit. This new agreement will only further increase our trading deficit: opening our markets to foreign imports while allowing our trading partners to continue their non-tariff barriers that close their markets to ours...If we want a new trade deal with Japan, or with Vietnam, then they should be negotiated bilaterally and sent to Congress under regular order. Under no circumstances should the House authorize, through fast-track, the formation of a new international commission that will regulate not only trade, but immigration, labor, environmental, and all manner of commercial policy.”
    Sen. Sessions asked, “What American went to the polls in 2014 to vote for fast-track and a new global union? Can anyone honestly say that Congress is trying to ram this deal through because they think their constituents want it? While elites dream of a world without borders, voters dream of a world where the politicians they elect put this country’s own citizens first.”

    On Friday, Senator Sessions was urging members of Congress to vote no on both the Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) and reauthorizing Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA). Despite Senator Sessions’ pleas most Republicans in the US House of Representatives voted for TPA. Democrats en masse refused to support the controversial trade legislation which is opposed by both the unions and environmentalists. Many swing GOP votes voted for TPA (219 to 211) and against TAA, so TAA was defeated 302 to 126. The leadership however are bringing it back again for another vote. TPA and TAA will help expedite the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP). Some analysts think that getting a TPP agreement from the other Trans-Pacific countries without TAA would be very difficult.

    The popular Senator Jeff Sessions was re-elected to a fourth term in the United States Senate last year without an opponent, Republican or Democrat.
    http://alreporter.com/archives/2015/2015-august/146-state/7842-sessions-people-beg-congress-no-new-executive-powers-for-president.html

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    Boehner takes his retribution

    By Scott Wong - 06/16/15 01:37 PM EDT

    House GOP leaders booted three members off the whip team for voting against a procedural rule that structured how a critical trade package was brought to the House floor last week.

    Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) informed Reps. Cynthia Lummis (Wyo.), Steve Pearce (N.M.) and Trent Franks (Ariz.) on Monday that they were no longer a part of the GOP’s vote-counting operation, a source close to the whip team confirmed.

    Scalise’s decision was based on longstanding whip team rules that stated members must “vote as a team on procedural matters” but are free to vote against leadership on underlying legislation, the source said.One of those removed said she accepted Scalise’s decision. Lummis, a deputy whip, was aware when she cast her vote against leadership that there could be repercussions.

    “She understands his decision and departs the Whip organization with nothing but the utmost respect for Mr. Scalise and his entire organization,” Lummis spokesman Joe Spiering said in an email. “Mr. Scalise was trying to include a wide variety of voices from the Republican conference on the Whip Team. Cynthia respected that and continues to respect the difficult job he has.”

    National Journal first reported on Scalise’s decision.

    It came on the same day Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) chastised nearly three dozen Republicans for voting against the trade rule last Thursday.

    “I made it pretty clear to the members today I was not very happy about it,” Boehner told reporters after a closed-door meeting with rank-and-file members at the Capitol Hill Club. “You know, we’re a team. And we’ve worked hard to get the majority; we’ve worked hard to stay in the majority.

    “And I expect our team to act like a team, and frankly, I made it pretty clear I wasn’t very happy,” he added.

    In the meeting, Boehner told his fellow Republicans it was “nonsense” that some of them had voted against leadership, according to a GOP lawmaker in the room.

    His remarks, which sparked applause, are notable because GOP leaders for days have been highlighting Democrats' stark divisions over trade. Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said Tuesday that Democrats are engaged in a “civil war” with one another.

    The large number of GOP defections on Friday's rule vote nearly scuttled the trade package before it even reached the floor. Thirty-four Republicans, mostly conservatives, voted no, objecting to the way the package was put together.

    It wasn’t until a handful of pro-trade Democrats voted yes that the rule narrowly passed, on a 217-212 vote.

    The rule split the Senate-passed trade package into parts, including separate votes on a bill to aid workers displaced by trade and another to grant President Obama fast-track authority to complete major trade deals.

    The fast-track bill, known as trade promotion authority, narrowly cleared the House on a bipartisan vote. But because of the rule, it will not be sent to Obama’s desk because Democrats rallied to defeat the aid bill in order to derail the overall package.
    The House will vote on a new rule Tuesday that would allow GOP leaders to bring back the workers aid bill for another vote by July 30.

    Rep. Raúl Labrador (R-Idaho), who was among the 34 Republicans to vote against the rule last week, said Boehner hasn't spoken to him about his vote. He accused GOP leaders of catering too much to Democrats at the expense of losing support from conservatives.

    “This is the second or third time that they negotiated with Democrats and then Democrats go back on their word. And they still don’t come to the conservatives,” Labrador said at an event hosted by the Heritage Foundation Tuesday morning. “We can help them with this process.”

    “Voting against the rule is almost like committing a capital crime here,” Labrador said of the leadership’s attitude.

    —Cristina Marcos contributed to this report.

    http://thehill.com/homenews/house/24...is-retribution



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