Posted on 06/05/2015 7:00:05 PM PDT by Nachum
Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) 80% , the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee’s subcommittee on Immigration and the National Interest, has written a scathing new letter to President Barack Obama pressuring him to explain why Obamatrade has been so secretive.
“On May 6th of this year, I sent you a letter (enclosed) regarding your request for Congress to grant you fast-track executive authority,” Session wrote to Obama on Friday in a letter provided exclusively to Breitbart News ahead of its public release. “Under fast-track, Congress transfers its authority to the executive and agrees to give up several of its most basic powers.
“These concessions include: the power to write legislation, the power to amend legislation, the power to fully consider legislation on the floor, the power to keep debate open until Senate cloture is invoked, and the constitutional requirement that treaties receive a two-thirds vote.
“The latter is especially important since, having been to the closed room to review the secret text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, it is clear it more closely resembles a treaty than a trade deal.
“In other words, through fast-track, Congress would be pre-clearing a political and economic union before a word of that arrangement has been made available to a single private citizen.”
The letter hones in on the new global governance, as Sessions calls it, that would be created by the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP)—which would almost certainly be approved by Congress should the House of Representatives vote in favor of Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) to fast track TPP and other trade deals. TPA, which passed the Senate a couple weeks ago, would ensure—barring some unforeseen development—the congressional approval of TPP, and collectively the two have become known as Obamatrade.
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I trust Sessions over Cruz on this.
Hey Jeff? Where’s the remaining 534 members of CONgre$$.
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
—That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
Can we draft Jeff Sessions to run for President?
I second that motion.
Perhaps this is why they’re training the military to fight in the continental U.S.-the public is not going to go with it and I if Sessions is accurate on his statement, this TPP/TPA is tantamount to treason.
Can we draft Jeff Sessions to run for President?
He’d have my vote! Cruz lost my vote. It will be Ben Carson or Carly, unless Jeff Sessions runs.
Yeah, we know you’re not a Cruz backer. Anyone who spends an hour a month here knows that.
I will never vote for anyone who gives away our sovereignty like this. This is Rino madness gone wild!!!
Yeah, no checks on an OUT-OF-CONTROL executive branch. Only a submissive, complicit CONgre$$ and states are $lave to the gofundmeFEDGOV. We the people? Debt slaves to FEDGOV and FEDRES.
BIG GOVERNMENT IS CRONY SOCIALISM. Socialism Is Legal Plunder - Bastiat
got freedom?
Why Are You Keeping Obamatrade’s New Global Governance Secret?
Because the Uniparty has decided our new borderless multi-cultural country is going to be the future even if the citizens don’t like it.
sounds like a tyrant's wet dream...
This time you can't even read "the bill" to find out what is in it thereby creating a fog of controversy.
Its just a letter and Obama will ignore it. The Republican congress has been way to passive with him. Obama does not respect or fear them so a letter will have no effect whatsoever on him. Anything short of legislative action to contain him will be an exercise in futility.
Alabama has much to be proud of in Jeff Sessions. For president, however, I’ll pull the handle for Cruz.
Sen Sessions is the Lone Wolf standing up for our sovereignty. May God bless and keep this good man.
Pelosi is backing a Democratic substitute, sponsored by Rep. Sandy Levin (D-Mich.), she said addresses those issues and sets Democrats on “a path to yes” on a sweeping Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement that stands as a top priority of Obama's second term.
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