On January 7, 2015, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell
(R-Kentucky) pledged "to move full speed ahead to give President Barack
Obama so-called fast track authority to cut massive new trade deals with little
oversight," reported The Huffington Post.
"We're in active discussion on TPA, trade promotion
authority," McConnell told reporters. "It's an enormous grant of
power, obviously, from a Republican Congress to a Democratic president, but
that's how much we believe in trade as an important part of America's
economy."
President Obama has asked Congress for
"fast-track" Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) so that he can negotiate
and sign two trade "partnership" agreements, one with eleven Pacific
Rim nations known as the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and another with the
European Union known as the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership
(TTIP).
Much like how the European Coal and Steel Community,
established by the Treaty of Paris in 1951, developed into what is today the
European Union, the TPP and TTIP (if approved by Congress) would place the
United States on a path towards becoming a member state in a Transpacific Union
and a Transatlantic Union, respectively. Both the TPP and TTIP threaten
American jobs and would surrender American sovereignty to international
authority.
Of President Obama and his desire for trade promotion
authority, Sen. McConnell said, "He's only got two years left, and we
think this is an area where we can make progress and you can look for us to act
on TPA."
After a couple months delay on introducing a TPA bill, on
March 23 Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) predicted the legislation would be
introduced in mid-April. So, now is definitely the time for you to contact your
congressmen.
Please contact your representative and senators now in
strong opposition to TPA.
Source: The John Birch Society
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