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House approves fast-track 218-208, sending bill to Senate
The Hill ^ | 06/18/2015 | Cristina Marcos and Vicki Needham

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Business/Economy; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Massachusetts; US: Texas
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To: conservativejoy

“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.”

Good luck with that.


41 posted on 06/18/2015 10:00:58 AM PDT by odawg
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To: exit82

The dems not voting in lock step, which is their usual tactic, is evidence to me that these two parties are working in cahoots to pass things with a bare minimum of yay votes.

I suspect that no votes were allowed to people who feel they need them.

I am at a point now where I am not willing to acknowledge no votes if a bill passes in spite of them, because they do not matter.

The government agenda always moves forward. America is being conspired against.


42 posted on 06/18/2015 10:00:59 AM PDT by chris37 (Heartless)
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To: tennmountainman

They sure do own this bill.

And watch it pass in the Senate, which the GOP also controls.

There will be enough Dems to get it over a 60 vote threshold, even though they usually vote in a block against the GOP there.

Anyone up for a second political party?


43 posted on 06/18/2015 10:01:20 AM PDT by exit82 ("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
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To: conservativejoy

Yes, but like the Maine senator’s vote that allowed 0bamacare to proceed [that could have stopped it], this TPP too shall be maneuvered through. I for one do not trust them to a) give us 60 days or b) pay any attention to what constituents want in whatever time they “give”us.

It could have been stopped.

I hope I’m wrong.


44 posted on 06/18/2015 10:01:35 AM PDT by Principled (Government Slowdown using the budget process!)
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To: GIdget2004

Obviously the calls from constituents, reportedly running as much as 30-1 against this trade turkey, meant nothing to these bought-and-paid-for congress critters. They report to a higher authority—the Chamber of Corruption.


45 posted on 06/18/2015 10:02:31 AM PDT by SharpRightTurn (White, black, and red all over--America's affirmative action, metrosexual president.)
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To: chris37
The government agenda always moves forward. America is being conspired against.

Well said and very true.

25 years of the GOP taking away the football like Lucy from Charlie Brown is taking a toll.

We need a new game.

46 posted on 06/18/2015 10:03:16 AM PDT by exit82 ("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
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To: bimboeruption

We will Trump this real bad. Bad deal— secret deal— Raised taxes!! Terrible.


47 posted on 06/18/2015 10:04:28 AM PDT by mrs ippi (Let's make America great again!!)
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To: GIdget2004

How can they split TPA from TAA today when they had to be considered together [with another item] last Friday?


48 posted on 06/18/2015 10:05:02 AM PDT by Protect the Bill of Rights
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To: Protect the Bill of Rights

“How can they split TPA from TAA today when they had to be considered together [with another item] last Friday?”

They restructured the bill to separate them. That’s why it has to go back to the Senate now for a re-vote there next week.


49 posted on 06/18/2015 10:06:19 AM PDT by GIdget2004
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To: Old Sarge

It still feels like the Dems are in charge to me.


50 posted on 06/18/2015 10:06:54 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: Howie66
They have consistently pissed on our shoes and told us that it’s raining ever since we were stupid enough to give them control of Congress this past November.

Agreed.

It is clear that corruption rules DC, and it is not going to change via the ballot box.

51 posted on 06/18/2015 10:07:22 AM PDT by exit82 ("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
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To: exit82

So...you are a RINO then.


52 posted on 06/18/2015 10:11:11 AM PDT by Osage Orange (I have strong feelings about gun control. If there's a gun around, I want to be controlling it.)
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To: GIdget2004

Australian trade minister says TPP is basically done. One week of negotiations need to finish it:

“We are literally one week of negotiation away from completing this extraordinary deal across 12 countries and 40 per cent of the world’s GDP,” said Andrew Robb, Australia’s trade minister.

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/06/17/ryans-misperceptions-on-trade-deal-unveiled-reports-suggest/

Seems the Cruz campaign has been lying to conservatives to cover his Obama enabling TPA vote. Shame on them.


53 posted on 06/18/2015 10:11:24 AM PDT by lodi90
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To: exit82

No, the Republican Establishment screwed the country.


54 posted on 06/18/2015 10:11:37 AM PDT by georgiarat (Obama, providing incompetence since Day One!!)
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To: Georgia Girl 2
Behold the Face of the GOP sellout of all America,
and the empowerment of the Tyranny, of Obama,
of globalists, and of Goldmann Sachs, on ObamaTRADE:


55 posted on 06/18/2015 10:11:49 AM PDT by Diogenesis ("When a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced.")
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To: Georgia Girl 2

It’s because we have a uniparty........


56 posted on 06/18/2015 10:12:10 AM PDT by Osage Orange (I have strong feelings about gun control. If there's a gun around, I want to be controlling it.)
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To: cotton1706

It will be a cinch to pass TPP in the Senate. More than half of the Republican Senators are marxists and most of the rest will do anything for money.


57 posted on 06/18/2015 10:13:00 AM PDT by freedomfiter2 (Lex rex)
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To: conservativejoy

“At least as soon as TPP is complete, we will get 60 days to review it and contact our Reps and Senators”

If you think that will make any difference, you haven’t been paying attention.

Citizens were contacting their congress critters like crazy to stop this thing today. It still passed. Very few of these career politicians care what their constituents think. They know only a very small percentage of their number are thrown out of office. If they vote the Chamber of Corruption/Boehner/McConnell line, they will be assured of enough campaign donations to roll over almost any opponent.


58 posted on 06/18/2015 10:13:06 AM PDT by SharpRightTurn (White, black, and red all over--America's affirmative action, metrosexual president.)
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To: lodi90

Can’t wait to hear Trump on this his big mouth will come in handy. If we get stuck with this bill then I think Trump will be the best fighter for US sovereignty.


59 posted on 06/18/2015 10:13:10 AM PDT by magna carta
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To: GIdget2004

As originally designed in the constitution and elaborated on by congressional rules, the process is designed to stop such rammed through hasty ideas. It is tragic that the process is the only thing still protecting us, from a small and vile group of men obsessed with greed.


60 posted on 06/18/2015 10:13:36 AM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("Don't compare me to the almighty, compare me to the alternative." -Obama, 09-24-11)
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