Just when we think we might have had a little clarification on this whole mess, you link us to what? An amendment to the Internal Revenue Code - penalty free withdrawals from government pension plans?
It’s a shell bill. The exact same maneuver was used to pass Obamacare. Obamacare and Obamatrade. Two peas in a pod.
Originally Paul Ryan was going use some old firefighter bill but their union objected. So we got this old IRS bill reused instead I guess.
Good grief! I pay attention to this stuff and spend hours trying to understand - especially on these trade debates. How on earth does the “uninformed” voter understand what’s going on? Did no one know this is the way this was going to go down? I sure never ran into it....
Here is a link to the vote tally of H.R. 1314 which was the vehicle used in the Senate for trade promotion authority: http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=114&session=1&vote=00192
The votes are grouped in different ways at the site.
JWK
To support Jeb Bush is to support our Global Governance crowd and their WTO, NAFTA, GATT, and CAFTA, all used to circumvent America First trade policies, while fattening the fortunes of international corporate giants who have no allegiance to America or any nation.