[xzins]

From the article: (Eagle Forum quote)

These are legitimate issues that should be addressed in the actual text of TPA with enforceable provisions, not currently included in TPA. Instead, Chairman Ryan is promising that their concerns will be addressed in a future customs bill — the Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act. The customs bill is completely separate from TPA, and even if these concerns are addressed, it will be conferenced with the Senate where conservatives are unlikely to win. Furthermore, there is no guarantee that President Obama will sign the customs bill, even if it passes the House and the Senate. These promises will only serve to garner TPA enough votes; they will not affect the final agreement. Pew Research Center recently released a poll stating 75 percent of the Republican-leaning public want Republicans in Congress to challenge Obama more often. Instead, Republican Leadership is intent on running roughshod over conservative principles to achieve President Obama’s top priority in the name of free trade.”

In other words, they have the language of immigration in the TPA bill, but promise they'll change it down the road in another bill.

Not very likely.

[lee martell]

Our allies are fast becoming our enemies. Who, exactly is Ryan working for, other than himself?

[9YearLurker]

Kind of how they were for the appeal of Obamacare if we voted in a GOPe Senate. Make that a GOPe president. What, the Supreme Court might help repeal it? We can’t have that—now the GOPe wants to undo such a partial appeal with new legislation.

They have so gamed the system that even the most conservative of the 15 presidential candidates they are putting up, Ted Cruz, is for amnesty and more of these trade abominations.

(While we’re looking at the sources of Hillary’s income, we might as well notice the report 45M that Cruz’s household has taken in from Goldman Sachs.)

[palmer]

What a weird thread. There's a bad bill giving more power to the President to get worked up over. In doing so, we'll ignore the cultural rot and the fact that we print money for politicians to spend. I have yet to find a politician against the latter, maybe Rand Paul. But to start shrinking DC and upholding the Constitution someone has to do that. I can see how TPA might enhance the power of unelected bureaucrats in the executive branch.

As a result we need to hear more from Cruz on how he will cut the federal government substantively (authority and entitlements) and from the other candidates on that cutting federal power and controlling immigration. IMO, everything else is just nitpicking. The size and scope of the federal government is the root of most problems in America.