Posted on 06/12/2015 12:41:58 PM PDT by SoConPubbie
Texas Senator and GOP presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) argued Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) “is not giving the president more authority” and that Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) is “not accurate” in some of his claims regarding the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) on Friday’s broadcast of “The Kuhner Report” on Boston’s WRKO.
Cruz argued that he had been the staunchest opponent of President Barack Obama in Congress. He then separated TPA (Trade Promotion Authority) and the TPP (the Trans-Pacific Partnership). He touched on TPA first, stating that “history has demonstrated, the only way to get a trade agreement adopted is with fast-track. Since FDR, consistently, for 80 years, presidents in both parties have had fast-track. Anytime fast-track has lapsed, trade agreements don’t get negotiated.” He later added that it was a “misunderstanding” to say TPA gave away the Senate’s treaty power. Cruz stated that “Under the Constitution, there are two ways to make binding law. Number one, you can pass a treaty ratified by 2/3ds of the Senate. Or number two, you can pass legislation passed by a majority of both of houses of Congress and signed by the president. … TPA uses the second constitutional path.” And “it’s been long recognized that the Constitution’s Origination Clause applies to trade bills, which means the House of Representatives has to be involved. There’s a reason why trade bills have historically not been done as treaties, because the Constitution says that anything concerning the raising of revenues, and trade bills concern tariffs, which are the raising of revenues, has to originate in the House of Representatives. So, the process of approving a trade agreement through both houses of Congress has been the way it has been done for roughly a century. And it is not giving the president more authority.”
Regarding TPP, Cruz said
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“The saddest part of this whole episode is how easily conservatives are manipulated and led like sheep. Just look at who populates these threads. Among the regular Freeps are the RINO troll army. They consist if the n00bs who “used to support Cruz” and the primary season Freeps who may have been here for years but only show up for primary season to raise “concerns” about conservatives.”
Very well said. And great post.
But he is not full of shit like Cruz and Ryan. He also does not support tripling the amount of H1B visas while IT workers are forced to train their H1B replacements. So I will back Jeff Sessions and screw the Chamber of Commerce lackies.
So you support tripling H1B visas while a hundred million Americans do not work?
Even Sarah is against this secretive trade bill...I guess she’s “not accurate”, either. (BTW, I’m not a Romneybot/Primarybot or Noob.)
PALIN SLAMS OBAMATRADE AS ANOTHER ‘DON’T PASS IT ’TIL WE KNOW WHAT’S IN IT!’
Well said my ass. The same hypocrites here who railed against Obamacare because the bill was secret now support secrecy in trade agreements. Nancy Pelosi fanboys.
You don’t have to apologize or explain anything to these hypocrites.
The conservatives here who support this crap are no different than the zombies who fainted at Obama sightings.
Show us the bill.
When Congress is in a rush to meet artificial deadlines, that is usually the excuse for dirty work.
We have gone the route of secret bills and provisions to be included later.
Show us the bill.
I no longer trust Mr. Cruz.
TWB
“Cruz KNEW the American people and conservatives
were against it.
Cruz KNEW Obola the undocumented was for it.
Cruz KNEW he had not read every footnote.
Cruz KNEW it was secret, and the American people
are fed up with his kind, the EXEMPT who know
more than the voter.”
Then why would he do something that would alienate the very people he needs voting for hum?
There us more to this than we know. Cruz has never been one to pander to anyone. Even when faced with a loss of votes or the ire of the establishment, he did what he thought was right.
I’m sure this time is no exception. I’m willing to listen.
We will need a highly-skilled workforce to expedite our recovery with the next president. As we know, the free public education of this country is horrible. What does it produce? Fewer and fewer highly-skilled graduates. It will take a generation or so to produce highly-skilled graduates of our own to participate in our economic recovery. Meanwhile, we have to borrow some of those from other countries.
For companies which are abusing H1B visa program, shame on them. There is a law against what they are doing already, but if the administrative branch doesn't enforce it, “what difference, at this point, does it make?”
“What a stupid thing to risk your candidacy over considering who would be given that power for the next year and a half.”’
And Cruz is anything but stupid.
Therefore, there is another explanation.
“What we know is that they fear Ted Cruz the most. “
That means he is on the right track and wants to cease the destruction of this country. Nothing makes liberals mire angry.
>Jeff Sessions has done well for us in Alabama but he is about the worst public speaker in the Senate. He speaks the truth which is paramount<
You keep posting this same comment. Why? What the hell does that say about us? That the truth is less important than how it’s delivered? The truth is the truth regardless of who says it or how. Your views are why we have the “Kardashian’s.” You can be a complete idiot and devoid of any class or ethics but as long as you “look good” or “sound good” well, that’s all that matters. I swear I’m about ready to throw out my tv,phone, etc. and say to hell with it.
“But he is not full of shit like Cruz and Ryan”
Your poor vocabulary makes it clear that your opinion means nothing to me.
You should be on DU with that trashy, ie, low IQ, way of talking.
You must love the taste of dirt and leather. Your man crush/worship is pathetic to witness.
Ted Cruz is not Jesus Christ. And even though he’s one of my favorite presidents, neither was Reagan. People need to get a grip and stop worshipping people.
You do realize that they (FReepers) said the same thing to Sarah Palin supporters, right?
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