Posted on 06/18/2015 9:34:15 AM PDT by GIdget2004
The House on Thursday took the first step toward resuscitating the White House’s trade agenda by passing legislation granting President Obama fast-track authority.
The bill now goes to the Senate, where the White House and GOP leaders are seeking to strike a deal with pro-trade Democrats.
The House vote was 218-208, with 28 Democrats voting for it.
This is the second time in a week the House has voted to approve the controversial fast-track bill. On Friday, the House voted 219-211 in favor of fast-track, which would make it easier for Obama to complete a sweeping trans-Pacific trade deal.
In last week’s vote, the House GOP paired the fast-track bill with a measure known as Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) that gives aid to workers displaced by trade. Both measures needed to be approved in separate votes for the entire package to move forward.
House Democrats have historically favored TAA, but they voted against it on Friday to kill fast-track, which is deeply opposed by unions and other liberal groups.
The White House still wants both measures to reach Obama’s desk, but is now advancing a different strategy that would see the two bills move separately.
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The TPP is already non compliant with TPA. The Congress was not able to set the parameters that the President negotiated under and Congress was also not involved in the negotiations as TPA requires.
At least as soon as TPP is complete, we will get 60 days to review it and contact our Reps and Senators, something we would not have gotten without TPA.
K street come through again.
“Does anyone have a roll call of the votes?”
It’s here (and don’t let the bill title throw you - it’s the right one):
http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2015/roll374.xml
Guess my 11 year old better start learning Chinese since any job left will be in China. Effing RINOs
The 28 rats votes wouldn’t have mattered at all if they weren’t stacked upon 190 RINO votes, and no votes would have occured at all if the RINO leader declined to bring the bill up for a vote.
So let’s be sure to credit the democrat GOP for their efforts to screw America.
My point was that the Dems usually vote in a block on many bills.
The GOP no voters were fighting an uphill battle, which took political courage.
Had the Dems done their part as usual, this would have been defeated.
We know the RINOS vote against us. We are screwed with Boner as Speaker. That is a given.
There was a chance to day to win for America. It did not happen.
So the reason Cruz is doubling down on his TPA vote is that he’s going to have to do it again with the new split TPA/TAA bill.
Yet again.
Mr. niteowl77
There was never a real chance for a win with this Congress
60 days to look at it ans contact reps will work as well as it did this time on the TPA.
Theywill simply maneuver around the constituents while ignoring them.
Without a doubt, chris37.
This was a given going into today’s vote.
Boner wanted this to pass,and was very heavy handed about it.
50 GOP no votes is a great accomplishment in the light of this,compared to only 34 no votes the other day. But the Dems did not vote in lockstep, which for this one unusual instance, would have been good thing for America.
The 50 GOP no votes went out on a limb, which the Dems did not support.
GOP Establishment? Cruz, Gowdy, Huelskamp and Tim Scott all support TPA and enabling Obama’s TPP. Never before have I seen an issue so clearly illustrate the disdain the beltway crowd has for Main Street.
No. The GOP screwed the country again
They pushed it through becasue that’s what their corporate masters want.
Most likely true. But I will give credit to the 50 GOP no voters--that took courage in the current climate.
Same only left wing liberal bullcrap being tossed with a different shovel.
The reason it did not happen is 190 RINOs and fake conservatives
carried this bill.
The GOP now “owns” this bill.
And they will continue to screw the country unless those 50 GOP no voters increase their numbers.
But the Dems are not blameless either. It was they who made the defeat of the TPA their rallying cry, and they didn’t follow through.
Yes without TPA we would have had forever to review it and it (TPP) would have needed 60 votes in the Senate to pass but thanks to TPA TPP only needs 50 votes from Senators and only gets reviewed for up to 60 days, Mitch might decide 1 day is enough. Also remember there a 2 other secrete "trade" bills besides TPP hitched to TPA and those bills are so secrete even the traitors in the GOP are not allow to see them.
They only need 51.
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