But Bill Is Blocked Til
House Passes TAA
By John Shaw Friday, June 12, 2015 - 14:33
House Confuses World and Itself With Baffling Trade Votes
House Passes TPA, But Bill Can't Advance Till TAA Passes
WASHINGTON (MNI) - In a
series of votes Friday, the House managed to confuse itself and the world and
throw the nation's trade agenda into a state of near chaos.
The House voted narrowly,
219 to 211, to approve legislation renewing Trade Promotion Authority.
However before that vote,
the House also voted to reject, on a 126-to-302 vote, a separate bill to renew
the Trade Adjustment Assistance program.
Under the terms of the
package of rules approved Thursday evening, the House needed to pass both of
those bills for the entire package to advance.
Dozens of House Democrats
who usually support TAA voted against it Friday as a tactical move to skuttle
TPA.
After the two votes,
House Speaker John Boehner offered a motion for the House to vote again next
week on the TAA bill.
A House GOP staffer told
MNI that he expects that House vote to occur Tuesday.
President Barack Obama
has been a vocal supporter of TPA and TAA and lobbied Democrats aggressively on
trade. He even met with all House Democrats in the Capitol several hours before
the votes.
Obama has said TPA is
needed in order for the administration to complete several key free trade
agreements currently in the final stages of negotiation including the
Trans-Pacific Partnership.
After the House votes,
White House press spokesman Josh Earnest urged Democrats to support the TAA
bill when it comes up again in the House.
--MNI Washington Bureau;
tel: +1 202-371-2121; email: jshaw@mni-news.com
Comments
TPA, Trade Promotion
Authority is Fast Track. It puts Obama in charge to give away the USA. It’s
time to really raise hell to ensure that the TAA vote next week fails again.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody
GA Tea Party Leader
1 comment:
This is from another article. This will only get worse before it is eventually passed. We're being played.
After Pelosi delivered the final blow to the legislation, she sent a letter to all Democrats saying that stopping the fast-track bill was their way to leverage support for a massive infrastructure bill.
However, in a sign of their disjointed posture, other Democrats had other ideas about what they were trying to get by stopping the trade package. “The real issue here is TPP, and this is an effort to get TPP on the right track,” said Rep. Sander M. Levin (Mich.), the ranking Democrat on the Ways and Means Committee.
Levin said “the focus of these next days” would be to force the Obama administration to reopen portions of the negotiations with Pacific Rim nations on worker organizing rights and currency manipulation.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/president-obama-is-all-in-on-trade-sees-it-as-a-cornerstone-of-his-legacy/2015/06/12/32b6dce8-1073-11e5-a0dc-2b6f404ff5cf_story.html
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