Posted on 06/11/2015 8:20:15 AM PDT by GIdget2004
President Barack Obama’s trade agenda is running into potentially fatal opposition within his own party on the eve of a critical vote, and there might be only one person who can save it: Obama himself.
Speaker John Boehner’s plan to bring a package of trade bills to the House floor Friday is proving to be a big gamble, as both senior Republicans and Democrats are privately wondering whether they have the votes to pass several key portions.
The most pressing concern is over Trade Adjustment Assistance, a program to retrain workers who lose their jobs to free trade. The initiative is not very popular with Republicans, and aides in both parties estimate that only 50 to 100 GOP lawmakers will vote for it. And with unions actively lobbying against the bill, a senior House Democratic aide said it will be “a major problem” to wrangle “significant House Democratic support” for the measure.
That jobs assistance bill needs 218 votes to pass. Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.), a close ally of Minority Leader Pelosi (D-Calif.), has been vocal against TAA, and raising other objections about the package. This is a serious problem for Obama. If TAA fails, the House will not take up Trade Promotion Authority, the key legislation that would give Obama fast-track authority to negotiate the sweeping Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement. Under that scenario both sides would have to regroup and figure out a way forward — or else the 12-nation trade deal could fall apart.
At a Democratic whip meeting Thursday morning, Labor Secretary Tom Perez tried to convince lawmakers to approve the package. Democrats wanted to better understand the process Boehner plans to use. Pelosi, in the meeting, said the Medicare offset that has angered liberals has been fixed, in a sign she’s growing frustrated with liberal opposition.
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“The most pressing concern is over Trade Adjustment Assistance, a program to retrain workers who lose their jobs to free trade. “
What’s wrong with this picture.
So you are going to buy a pig in a poke from someone with a history of ripping you off?
taking bets, they pass it
Last line: “...she’s [Nancy Pelosi] growing frustrated with liberal opposition.”
Rhetorical question: If even Nancy Pelosi isn’t representing her base, just whose interests is she representing...?
Trumpka was Obama’s BFF until after he was used for the 2012 election, and now Trumpka’s trying to convince his membership he’s on their side again. Obama is tucking away some BIG bribes here. What a scam.
“The most pressing concern is over Trade Adjustment Assistance, a program to retrain workers who lose their jobs to free trade”
Retrain as what? Computer programmers? No! Companies import workers to bump Americans. *See Disney
Engineers? We have engineers now who can’t get a job.
Healthcare workers? Sure. Except hospitals are laying off because of Obamacare *See Kentucky
Nurses aids in Nursing Homes? Deadend
Retail clerks? Car washers? How about SERFS.
[ Until an EQUITABLE trade agreement may be worked out.
And confined to questions concerning trade and ONLY trade. ]
Damned RIGHT SIR! DITTOS!
What i can never get about the “Free Trade at any cost” people is that they seem to embrace “Free trade” as a damned religion...
But not every country is Canada or the UK when it comes to Trade. I think free trade is only possible between countries that are nearly he same in levels of Social, Economical and Legal development. The EU has shown us that Free trade between countries like Germany and Switzerland is just fine, but trade between countries like Greece and the more advanced EU countries is bad, bad, bad....
“The most pressing concern is over Trade Adjustment Assistance, a program to retrain workers who lose their jobs to free trade. “
What’s wrong with this picture.
Sounds like a program that is a toss of red meat tot he unions that could be exploited to death by the likes of SEIU....
The government agenda will proceed.
[ “The most pressing concern is over Trade Adjustment Assistance, a program to retrain workers who lose their jobs to free trade”
Retrain as what? Computer programmers? No! Companies import workers to bump Americans. *See Disney
Engineers? We have engineers now who can’t get a job.
Healthcare workers? Sure. Except hospitals are laying off because of Obamacare *See Kentucky
Nurses aids in Nursing Homes? Deadend
Retail clerks? Car washers? How about SERFS. ]
I think the answer they are going for is “Bi-yearly Lever Pulling Welfare Drones”
“Rhetorical question: If even Nancy Pelosi isn’t representing her base, just whose interests is she representing...?”
Her Commie husband Paul Pelosi and maybe Starkist Tuna!
This one is not a sinker; it’s a floater. And it will float through because the majority party in Congress and the president want it to.
I think I’ll make it through my like OK. My kids will do less well. And my grandchildren will have a cold, bleak and depressing non-Vulcan life. Neither long nor prosperous.
I think there’s like two or three republicans I actually like now. Ted Cruz is a snake. I’m so damn sick of the republican party, beyond angry too.
“You are either FOR or AGAINST the Corporate Cartels!”
And not one word from Hillary on this.
“When we have to actually rely on Democrats...”
And, your #1 best news sources are Pravda and the Daily Mail. Who would believe that it could come to this.
Yeah, floater for sure. I stand corrected.
What are they going to train the displaced workers to do? Wrap burgers part time?
GOP voters have to learn that sometimes a Democrat is the lesser evil, like Alison Grimes. She would not be Majority Leader shoving crap down our throats.
I’m for the corporate globalists being tried for treason.
Yes. Sometimes the upside of firing the RINO outweighs the downside of having to live with a Dem in that seat for awhile.
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