Pelosi Comes Out Against TPP Fast Track Bill

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Nancy Pelosi Comes Out Against TPP Fast Track Bill | FDL News Desk

DSWright
February 13, 2014

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi has now publicly opposed giving President Obama fast track authority on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). In a show of unity with other House Democrats Pelosi announced she would be opposing the current bill promoting TPP at a labor event.

Pelosi is reported to have said “No on Fast Track — Camp-Baucus — out of the question.” Camp-Baucus, named for Representative Dave Camp and Senator Max Baucus, is the current bill to fast track TPP. That members of Congress would write a bill to remove their own authority is puzzling until you realize that the TPP is a corporate coup and that Camp and Baucus are taking oceans of corporate cash.

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"liberals, unions and tea party groups — which dubbed fast-track
“Obamatrade” — have created a groundswell of grassroots opposition"​

The Trans-Pacific Partnership Is in Trouble Thanks to Grassroots Pressure

"Multilateral trade agreements like the TPP are virtually impossible to enact without fast track, which allows the executive branch to submit a treaty to Congress for an up or down vote, without amendments.

For this Congress, at least, the Trans-Pacific Partnership (and, presumably, the less well-known Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, or TTIP) appears to be dead. Despite the fact that woefully little attention has been paid to the deal by mainstream news outlets, liberals, unions and tea party groups — which dubbed fast-track “Obamatrade” — have created a groundswell of grassroots opposition to the TPP that seems to have been heard by enough lawmakers in Washington to make a difference."
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