Posted on 02/10/2016 9:09:58 PM PST by Amntn
Heidi Cruz misstated her husband's vote on a key and controversial trade provision last year in a radio interview this week.
The issue of trade has become a hot one for both parties this cycle. Donald Trump's made the case that the United States is getting screwed on free trade -- that U.S. policies have ruined the wages for the American worker.
In a radio interview on South Carolina's Vince Coakley Radio Program, Heidi Cruz argued free trade is a powerfully good force and that presidents should have increased powers to negotiate trade deals -- a policy that has become particularly controversial over the last year as President Obama has pushed for what's called trade-promotion authority (TPA) to negotiate a U.S.-Asian Pacific trade agreement.
And then she said Ted Cruz voted for TPA. Sen. Cruz, while initially voting for TPA in May of 2015, was one of only five Republicans to vote against it when it came up for another vote in the Senate later that June. At the time, Cruz explained that his reversal was a result of his opposition to the Export-Import Bank and new immigration provisions introduced by the House.
A Cruz spokesman told BuzzFeed News: "Cruz supports free trade but voted against TPA because he did not want President Obama to have the authority to unilaterally make bad trade deals."
Here's Heidi Cruz's case for free trade:
"Well Ted is a free trader, he's always been a free trader, and that is why he voted for the Trade Promotion Authority in Congress. That being said, what is--and the reason he is for free trade is because it creates American jobs. We've done a study on the campaign as to how many jobs free trade has created for various states in the country, and the numbers are in the hundreds of thousands depending on the size of the state. And so I'd encourage your listeners to look at those types of statistics. Free trade creates jobs for Americans. Ted has integrated into his tax plan a tax break for exports so that companies that producing for export will not be taxed in the U.S. which gives them any advantage in selling abroad.
"The second thing, though, and equally important, they must go part and parcel, is that we must be negotiating the right free trade agreements that are good for America and not bad for America. And this president has not proven that he's able to do so, and so Ted voted against the TPP, the deal with Asia. And the reason he voted against it is, he actually goes and reads the bills that he votes on and the agreements that are negotiated. Ted went down into the SCIF, he read through the pages of this agreement. He made the observation that this was not a good agreement for America. This president is not negotiating good deals for our country, there are immigration things in there. There are things that don't belong in there, and he voted against that agreement.
"Let me remind you listeners that the trade promotion authority for the bill that gives Congress the right to give to executive branch the ability to negotiate trade on the behalf of the country. This is a six year lasting situation, so in the Constitution the authority for trade is given to the Congress, but because of all the different interests, it was deemed a long time ago that the executive should argue on behalf of the American people, but that Congress should approve or disapprove. And this lasts for six years, and so if we deny the ability for our executive to negotiate trade agreements on our behalf, and then be reviewed by Congress --which should be a very assiduous process -- we will be also denying the next president because this president only has just about eight months left in office."
RINOlicker.
Big biz GOPe
Big bank employee.
Darn, if we find out he’s Mormon, you’ll really be on it.
So that thing has popped up again? Americans and Canucks will not stand for it but the Mexicans would go for it in a heartbeat for all the free stuff.
Just because Heidi may go for this(and I question she does) does not mean Cruz does. He has never given any indication he would be in favor of giving up our independence.
Ain’t gonna happen.
And What does Accenture do to make money as one of the largest...if not the largest consulting firms in the world?
I suppose this is another Halliburton?
Instead of supposing perhaps you should educate yourself
I am not supposing anything. It looks like a very large consulting company. Anything wrong with that? You got proof they are doing anything illegal? Unethical? Immoral?
Otherwise put up the proof or else.
I do not make any claim other than cruz has a close connection to the ceo of a firm that outsources Jobs and is a big user of h1b visas.
Secretary of State John Kerry also agrees with Cruz on this. He said the Constitution makes getting a treaty like TPP through Congress impossible and we must use TPA. I disagree and yhinbk it is supposed to be impossible to get treaties that screw America through Congress. Just because some federal court supports a bad idea does not make it a good idea. I think it is dangerous for our country and freedom to give Obama or any President more power than our Constitution allows them. This sort of scheme is used because big gubmint politicians think the Constitution makes things like treaties “too hard to do” and keeps them from getting things done. The courts have also legalized homo marriage, abortion, sodomy and upheld Kelo, Obamacare and many other patently unconstutional laws and regulations in the past. I do not agree with any of those either. Just because some corrupt court somewhere supports bad ideas does not make them good or right.
Btw..I should clarify...ChAd sweets wife is not ceo over the whole firm...its chief executive over north america. The firm is a huge global company
We don’t elect wives. Reagan and Bush 43 both had wives that were to the left of them.
When did the disney scandal break?
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Congressional hearings on H1B visa abuse March 2015:
Ted comes out against H1B visa abuse November 2015:
He didn’t come out against it until it was a problem for his campaign.
You nailed it ...
You’ll love this .. here they are ..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkQz8vZ0jsU
Stepford..
From a former FReeper.
There were actually two Disney layoffs and the one we are generally talking about now is the second one.
But to your reference of Cruz flip flopping I don’t care. When he and others in congress heard about the abuses at Disney they changed their mind.
Now do you really want to get into a “he changed his mind” contest with me and all the times trump has changed? No? I didn’t think so.
You trumpanzees really need to talk issues and not BS like donnie does. Heck, at least Cruz new what political party to belong to and didn’t change his mind two or three times like donnie.
Excellent research gg188.
I don’t understand the unwillingness to vet Ted, not just here, but also Rush, Levin, and the others that so willingly crown him “the consistent conservative”.
With this, and the other people he surrounds himself with in his campaign, there is more than enough for some serious questing about him.
I didn’t support Scott Walker based on his being best buds with Ryan and Preibus and his PAC hiring Brad Dayspring.
This looks much worse to me.
Why was she getting involved in her husband’s business? This sounds too much like Hillary, who tried to take over the country’s healthcare as first lady. I think that a first lady, who is unelected, needs to stay out of politics.
“Better than some of the Barbie Doll political wives who nod and agree with insanity.”
An unelected first lady should stay out of politics.
Sounds like you’d want a first lady like Hillary, who tried to shove government-takeover of healthcare down our throats.
Cruz is a globalist.
In 1980 to 1988 was there a huge push for cheap labor?
During those same years was there any question about our sovereignty or danger of losing it?
You are being disingenuous, at best, comparing the Reagan years to today’s world.
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