by Dave Johnson | Jun 22, 2015 | Blog, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
Wait, back up: the Senate is voting Tuesday to agree to limit debate and not to amend a "trade" deal that we haven't even seen yet – no matter what is in it? What? It's called "fast track" and the vote will in essence preapprove the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a...
by Dave Johnson | Jun 19, 2015 | Blog, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
Candidate Hillary Clinton has spoken up about the fast track trade promotion authority (TPA) that is currently headed for a Senate vote as early as Tuesday. After the first fast track vote failed in the House last week, Clinton said Obama should work with Democrats to...
by Dave Johnson | Jun 19, 2015 | Blog, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
Now that the House passed a stand-alone fast track trade promotion authority bill Thursday, the action shifts to the Senate and a likely Tuesday rush vote. Fast track in essence preapproves the still-secret Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and future...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jun 18, 2015 | Blog, Democracy
It was not a matter of if, but from where, some disgusting and barbaric reaction would come to Wednesday night's terror attack at the Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, S.C. in which nine people died. Not surprisingly, Fox News was among the first out of the gate. The...
by Dave Johnson | Jun 18, 2015 | Blog, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
When Wall Street and the giant corporations want something from Congress, Congress finds a way to give it to them. With only a few hours notice, the House of Representatives snuck in another fast track vote, and it passed 218-208. The bill now must return to the...
by Jeff Bryant | Jun 18, 2015 | Blog, Education
For years, there's been an agreement – a “Washington consensus” – among Beltway policy makers and political elites that America’s schools are in “crisis” and only a punitive program of standards, testing and accountability can remedy it. Both Republicans and Democrats...
