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House Dem Delauro: "TPP would destroy American jobs..."
DeLauro breaks with Obama, big CT firms on Pacific trade deal
1/12/15
Washington – Rep. Rosa DeLauro is on a collision course with President Obama and some of Connecticut’s largest companies over a proposed trade deal with 12 countries on the Pacific Rim from Chile to Japan.
DeLauro, D-3rd District, has become a leading opponent of the president’s plans for the Trans-Pacific Partnership, or TPP, objecting to plans to “ram the trade agreement through Congress with little debate or transparency,” and saying it would destroy American jobs and threaten food safety and environmental regulations.
“Trade deals go well beyond trade,” DeLauro said at a press conference with labor and environmental leaders last week that kicked off a campaign against the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
Obama is asking Congress for authority to “fast track” the agreement, which means lawmakers would not be able to amend it and could only vote up or down on the trade deal.
Trade advocates argue that fast track is needed to assure trading partners that a final deal won't be changed after years of negotiations.
But, DeLauro said, “that is simply not acceptable.”
“We need to be able to scrutinize the trade deal page by page,” she said.
http://ctmirror.org/delauro-breaks-with-obama-big-ct-firms-on-pacific-trade-deal/
1/12/15
Washington – Rep. Rosa DeLauro is on a collision course with President Obama and some of Connecticut’s largest companies over a proposed trade deal with 12 countries on the Pacific Rim from Chile to Japan.
DeLauro, D-3rd District, has become a leading opponent of the president’s plans for the Trans-Pacific Partnership, or TPP, objecting to plans to “ram the trade agreement through Congress with little debate or transparency,” and saying it would destroy American jobs and threaten food safety and environmental regulations.
“Trade deals go well beyond trade,” DeLauro said at a press conference with labor and environmental leaders last week that kicked off a campaign against the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
Obama is asking Congress for authority to “fast track” the agreement, which means lawmakers would not be able to amend it and could only vote up or down on the trade deal.
Trade advocates argue that fast track is needed to assure trading partners that a final deal won't be changed after years of negotiations.
But, DeLauro said, “that is simply not acceptable.”
“We need to be able to scrutinize the trade deal page by page,” she said.
http://ctmirror.org/delauro-breaks-with-obama-big-ct-firms-on-pacific-trade-deal/
