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 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 Dave Johnson | Jun 18, 2015 | Blog, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
Wall Street and the big corporations don't like to lose. It looks like The Money has told the Republicans to try again to get fast track through and they are preparing to vote before we can rally and organize people to try to stop it again. News reports say the House...
by Dave Johnson | Jun 16, 2015 | Blog, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
Something unusual happened Friday. Regular Americans were able to beat Wall Street and the giant corporations in Congress, winning a battle over "fast tracking" so-called "trade" agreements. This sort of thing just doesn't happen very often, but it has been happening...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jun 12, 2015 | Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
You did it. Despite furious lobbying by the Fortune 500, entreaties from the Republican leadership in Congress and personal, last-minute appeals from President Obama, fast-track trade authority for the Trans-Pacific Partnership has been thrown off-track. A sweeping...
