Fast-Track, or Trade Promotion Authority, will receive a final cloture vote in the Senate on Tuesday morning. This is the bill that passed the House. If cloture is invoked, the bill will pass the Senate and go to the President’s desk.
More than four weeks have passed since the Senate first voted on whether to grant the Executive six years of fast-track authority. In that time, an enormous amount has been discovered about how the President plans to use this authority – information that was either not known or understood when the vote was held. This includes the Administration’s pledge to use the agreement to impose “environmental governance.”
It has become increasingly clear that the President’s Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is far more than a trade deal. It forms an enduring, self-governing political entity with vast regulatory power. Yet fast-track – which has led without fail to the adoption of every covered agreement since its inception – would rush it through with less legislative scrutiny than a Post Office reform bill.
Second chances do not come often. We now have new information and a new vote. Which means the Senate has a second chance to slow down and demand answers about the President’s plans before agreeing to fast-track their adoption.
It’ll be interesting to see what our presidential candidates in the senate do with this second chance.
Probably run and hide.
Has anyone questioned the “do over” vote on part of this tyrranical trifecta just because it didn’t go their way the first time around?? So why can’t We the People demand a “do over” in the 2008 & 2012 faux elections of the pResident?!
yep. the same way the pro-EU bastards jambed up Ireland until they got all the votes they needed to stick the Irish with all the EU rules and regs.
I like Jeff Sessions. He is about the ONLY one up there in Washington D.C. that I trust is on my side – and has common sense.