2016: RUBIO, GRAHAM REFUSE TO ANSWER WHETHER THEY READ OBAMATRADE BEFORE VOTING ON IT – IOTW Report

2016: RUBIO, GRAHAM REFUSE TO ANSWER WHETHER THEY READ OBAMATRADE BEFORE VOTING ON IT

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Only two GOP presidential candidates currently in the U.S. Senate publicly admit to have read the Obamatrade agreement prior to voting on it:

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX)

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY)

Cruz voted for Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) that would fast-track the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) Pacific Rim trade deal.
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL)
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC)

—the other two Senate Republicans who have announced they’re running for president—refuse to answer, through spokespersons, whether they’ve gone to the secret room to read the TPP deal and whether they did before voting on TPA. Both Rubio and Graham voted for TPA, which would fast-track TPP—and at this point they’re both choosing through staff to give the public impression they didn’t read the secret text before they voted.

In addition, neither the public nor the press are allowed to see the log-keeping record of which senators actually read the text prior to voting for it—though there is a log that is kept of who goes into the room to read it. The private text is kept in the Sensitive Compartmentalized Information Room for the Senate, and the Senate Security Office, according to a senate staffer, keeps the secret log.

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10 Comments on 2016: RUBIO, GRAHAM REFUSE TO ANSWER WHETHER THEY READ OBAMATRADE BEFORE VOTING ON IT

  1. I don’t understand how Ted Cruz can vote for this. As much as I like him and support him, this is a huge red flag of warning. What the hell is he thinking in giving obama fast track authority to do anything?

  2. Jefferson declared that govts “deriv[e] their just powers from the consent of the governed.”

    The central U.S. govt is made up of liars and crooks who have made it clear time after time that they place their own interests ahead of mine. If it were otherwise, if govt were composed of honorable and trustworthy men, then I could conceivably grant them my consent even to work in secret on my behalf. But as things stand, anyone who allows the govt to do its work in secret is a fool.

    Even if this trade pact is in my best interests (and I am quite sure that it is not), the secrecy and lying are utterly unacceptable.

  3. A Republic cannot operate under such nonsense.

    ANY politician who has EVER voted on ANY bill which he has not read, has violated the trust of his constituents.

    That should (in a viable, free Republic where the citizens are paying a bit of attention) be sufficient cause for removal.

    But aren’t they cute? Laughing at the proles and cavorting like retarded monkeys?

  4. Rubio and Graham can kiss their asses goodbye. AWD speaks the truth… Rubio is slick, but that Gang of Eight sealed him for me too. Anything that is done in association with Chuckie Schumer is putrid to me.

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