Stop the NAFTA Redo: Stop Trade Promotion
Authority Extension
When Congress passed and granted Trade
Promotion Authority (TPA) to then-President
Barack Obama in 2015, it included an
expiration date of June 30, 2018.
The expiration is automatic, unless
President Trump requests an extension,
which would extend TPA to July 1, 2021,
according to the Congressional Research
Service.
Congress should reassert its constitutional
authority, under Article I, Section 8, Clause 3,
of regulating commerce with foreign nations
by ending TPA. All it will take to end TPA is
for the majority of one legislative chamber
of Congress (either the House or Senate) to
pass an extension disapproval resolution.
Without TPA, a newly renegotiated North
American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
would likely not pass out of Congress.
Instead, it would be subject to debate,
the possibility of amendments in both
House and Senate, and filibuster in the Senate
(requiring 60 votes to end a filibuster and proceed).
Stopping congressional approval of a
renegotiated NAFTA would set the
stage for influencing Congress to
get the U.S. completely out of NAFTA.
There would be no better deal for the
American people and our national
sovereignty than U.S. withdrawal from
the disastrous NAFTA treaty.
Many of you can recall that back in 1993
when the NAFTA agreement
was being considered by Congress,
Henry Kissinger wrote an article for
the Los Angeles Times entitled "With
NAFTA, U.S. Finally Creates a
New World Order."
That title alone reveals why we say
that NAFTA is not about jobs,
but about our freedom and independence.
In this article Kissinger
referred to NAFTA as "the most creative
step toward a new world
order taken by any group of countries
since the end of the Cold War"
and stated further that it "is not a
conventional trade agreement,
but the architecture of a new international
system."
The NAFTA agreement represents the
foundation of the eventual North
American Union, a supranational
governmental entity that would be
comprised of the three formerly sovereign
nations, the United States,
Canada, and Mexico. For more information
about NAFTA and why we
should pull out, click on the image on
the left to visit our "Get US out!
of NAFTA" action project page at JBS.org.
Here are 6 reasons why either the House
or Senate should pass a
TPA extension disapproval resolution
(based on William F. Jasper's
article entitled, "7 Reasons Why Trade
Promotion Authority/Fast Track
Must Be Defeated," published on
TheNewAmerican.com, on June 5, 2015,
when the current TPA was being
considered by Congress):
TPA is essential to passage of the very
dangerous NAFTA, the forerunner
to an EU-like North American Union
(NAU), as well as to the potential
passage of other sovereignty-killing
"free trade" agreements like TTIP,
which according to Commerce
Secretary Wilbur Ross the U.S. is "still
open to."
TPA is an unconscionable abdication
of constitutional responsibility
by Congress.
TPA not only hands Trump unconstitutional
powers given to Obama,
it potentially gives them to his successor as well.
TPA is another giant step in the unconstitutional
transfer of congressional
authority to the president.
TPA also challenges the Constitution by
violating the requirement that
treaties be ratified by a super-majority
vote of two-thirds of the U.S. Senate.
The TPA will speed the transfer of
immense power to federal and
international judges to eviscerate
the Constitution; to strike down federal,
state, and local laws; and to legislate from the bench.
Please phone your representative (202-225-3121)
and senators
(202-224-3121), tell them or someone on
the staff a few of the
above 6 reasons why to disapprove
extending TPA and ask them
to sponsor and ultimately pass an
extension disapproval resolution
for TPA.
Then, send an email to your representative
and senators with the
same message for additional impact.
Source: Email from John Birch Society
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