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Title: House Kills Fast-Track Of Obamatrade After Pelosi-Led Democrat Rebellion
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URL Source: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015- ... -pelosi-led-democrat-rebellion
Published: Jun 12, 2015
Author: Submitted by Tyler Durden
Post Date: 2015-06-12 17:22:27 by HAPPY2BME-4UM
Keywords: nancy pelosi, trade agreement
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And just like that, President Obama's fast track of his "great job creation" bill is defeated in a 126-302 procedural vote which stumbled over what is known as the Trade Adjustment Assistance. Following Pelosi's comments that "its defeat is the only way we will be able to slow down fast track," and "people would rather have a job than assistance", the defeat of a measure to provide aid to workers displaced by trade deals means the fast-tracking of the TPP is done (for now). And with a whopping 302 votes against, House democrats just stunned the democrat president by ending the "fast-track" of the TPP and forcing it back to the drawing room table. As the NYT puts it: House Democrats rebuffed a dramatic personal appeal from President Obama on Friday, torpedoing his ambitious push to expand his trade negotiating power — and, quite likely, his chance to secure a legacy-defining trade accord spanning the Pacific Ocean. Of course this can all go back for another markup and another amendment but for now. TPP needs the passage of the TAA to send the bill back to Obama for his signature, which means we are back to square one. In a remarkable rejection of a president they have resolutely backed, House Democrats voted to kill assistance to workers displaced by global trade, a program their party created and has stood by for four decades. By doing so, they brought down legislation granting the president trade promotion authority — the power to negotiate trade deals that cannot be amended or filibustered by Congress — before it could even come to a final vote. “We want a better deal for America’s workers,” said Representative Nancy Pelosi of California, the House minority leader who has guided the president’s agenda for two terms and was personally lobbied by Mr. Obama until the last minute. Republican leaders tried to muster support from their own party for trade adjustment assistance, a program they have long derided as an ineffective waste of money and sop to organized labor. But not enough Republicans were willing to save the program. Republican leaders could still try to pass a stand-alone trade promotion bill, but that would force the Senate to take up a trade bill all over again. And without trade adjustment assistance alongside it, passing trade promotion authority in the Senate would be highly doubtful. The vote was an extraordinary blow to Mr. Obama, who went to the Capitol on Friday morning to plead personally with Democrats to “play it straight” — to oppose trade promotion if they must but not to kill trade assistance, a move he cast as cynical. On Thursday night, he had made an unscheduled trip to the annual congressional baseball game to try to persuade Representative Nancy Pelosi of California, the minority leader. And, as expected, shortly after the failure to pass TAA the House passed the TPA... ... But it did not matter because: Did the US public finally give big corporations, who have successfully purchased the US president long ago, the middle finger? Poster Comment: ================================================== Its a sad day in hell when we have to depend on the likes of Nancy Pelosi over the son-of-a-bitch Republicans who were all braced to reap in the international profits from overseas. Hope John Boner and Mitch McConnel choke on their vomit.
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#1. To: HAPPY2BME-4UM (#0)
great comment! and let's include that scumbag pretend CONstutionalist, Ted Cruz.
#2. To: christine (#1)
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========================================== Ted is another 'choir boy' for the global elitists in church clothes. In the not so distant past, these SON-OF-A-BITCHES really, REALLY raped us. It is a living miracle they didn't get our last piece of behind this time ... Mexican Truck Finally Enters US Under NAFTA Yep. RATS wearing REPUBLICAN CLOTHES!
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Replies to Comment # 1. and let's include that scumbag pretend CONstutionalist, Ted Cruz.
The 'NEW' GOP is the same as the 'OLD' GOP ..
The 103rd and 104th Congress was led by "Republicans." With G.W. Bush at the other end of the whipping post, more damage was done to our national sovereignty through NAFTA and CAFTA than in the history of the "Republican" party.
FINAL CAFTA VOTE ROLL CALL - How did your Congressman Vote?
http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2005/roll443.xml
CAFTA vote story
http://www.theamericanresistance.com/ar ... ul29c.html
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=45521
The New GOP Betrays America
http://www.alipac.us/f12/new-gop-betrays-america-7069/
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