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05-14-2015, 03:50 PM #1
Senate, in Reversal, Begins Debate on Trade Authority
Senate, in Reversal, Begins Debate on Trade Authority
By JONATHAN WEISMAN MAY 14, 2015
WASHINGTON — Two days after Democratic senators blocked it, the Senate easily voted on Thursday to begin debating legislation to grant the president accelerated negotiating power to complete an expansive trade accord with 11 other nations on the Pacific Rim.
The 65-33 vote came two hours after senators gave broad approval to legislation that cracks down on countries that the United States says manipulate their currency rates, putting bipartisan pressure on House leaders to take up a measure that President Obama argues could scuttle delicate Pacific trade talks.
The trade votes on Thursday were starkly different from the first effort to take up the issue on Tuesday. Then, Senate Democrats united against even considering so-called trade promotion authority, rebuking their own president and holding out for assurances that tough trade enforcement provisions be attached to that authority.
What they got instead was a compromise to allow the currency provision to come to a vote in a separate bill that now faces an uphill climb. Even if a bipartisan majority can pressure Speaker John A. Boehner of Ohio to allow a House vote, the White House has expressed opposition. A formal White House statement of policy on Thursday, however, stopped short of a veto threat.
“Under our plan, the Senate will avoid the poison pills that had been floated in favor of the very type of bipartisan approach we’ve been advocating for all along,” Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the majority leader, said. “It allows senators to express themselves without endangering more American trade jobs for the people we represent.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/15/bu...ack-trade.html
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05-15-2015, 02:54 AM #3
This is very bad deal for America. That's fine if they want to do something about "currency manipulation", but the trade deals like all trade deals so far are all bad deals for the United States and the American People which is why I call them "free trade treason", because ... well, that's exactly what they are. They move industries, jobs, investment and technology out of the United States and force more imports in. That's mathematical non-disputed harm. We don't send people to Congress or the White House to cause US harm, we send them there to protect US from it.
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