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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThat was quick: Senate reaches deal on trade vote after Democratic revolt against Obama
One might also say, done with unusual and unseemly haste. Not unexpected though.
U.S. senators reached a deal on Wednesday to move forward this week with legislation key to the proposed 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade pact, a day after a Democratic rebellion dealt a blow to the White House's trade agenda.
A compromise between Republicans and Democrats would set up a vote on "fast-track" trade authority with a worker assistance provision, while two other trade bills, a customs bill including rules against currency manipulation and one extending African trade benefits, would be considered separately.
A procedural vote was set for Thursday on the fast-track authority, enabling a full debate next week on the legislation, which would be twinned with the worker assistance program.
"The plan ... will provide our Democratic colleagues with a way forward without killing the bill," Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said on the Senate floor, following 24 hours of furious negotiations over how to break the impasse.
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http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/05/13/us-usa-trade-congress-idUSKBN0NY1TM20150513
By not including the the two other trade bills, they've pretty much assured passage of the TPA. Now the battle moves to the House where opposition is much tougher. Still, it's worth giving your Senators a call before the vote.
marym625
(17,997 posts)Thanks for the info
Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)randome
(34,845 posts)Seems like we'll know all the contents in that time.
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dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)TDale313
(7,820 posts)But no amendments or changes- just an up or down vote. So the only say the get is take it or leave it.
randome
(34,845 posts)It's understandable that people see 'fast' in the term 'fast-track' and immediately think 'speed'. But the only 'speedy' nature of it is, like you said, no pesky amendments, abortion riders, protest proposals regarding gay rights, etc.
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rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)Hoyt
(54,770 posts)It's really not an up or down vote, any longer.
GoneFishin
(5,217 posts)former9thward
(32,082 posts)There may have been some planned theater here.
Ichingcarpenter
(36,988 posts)its better than watching the sopranos.... Ok maybe not.
hedda_foil
(16,375 posts)I really do not like being played.
n2doc
(47,953 posts)Robbins
(5,066 posts)Is which dems ins enate vote against it.they are the real dems In senate.The rest have sold out unions and working people and democracy to corporations.
Autumn
(45,120 posts)cali
(114,904 posts)Autumn
(45,120 posts)cali
(114,904 posts)and sadly, I don't trust Leahy to vote no this time around. I'll have to call his office again and find out.
Sure was!
bvar22
(39,909 posts)It is so predictable that it has become expected, like a bad TV Soap Opera.
rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)spoke up to the President, stood up for the people. It was Kabuki Theater. The Oligarchs are laughing in their martinis tonight.
tritsofme
(17,399 posts)As you say, the real battle will be fought in the House.
octoberlib
(14,971 posts)cali
(114,904 posts)yippy. they'll get to keep their child labor loophole.
progressoid
(49,999 posts)JaneyVee
(19,877 posts)Number23
(24,544 posts)whopping 24 hours (was it even that long?) and now it's business as usual.
I can't make any sense out of this but one thing I know is that I am beyond tired of wishing that the screaming over this would stop and cooler and smarter heads would prevail.
JEB
(4,748 posts)the interests of American workers, who will? I guess fucking nobody. At least nobody with a scrap of power.
Rex
(65,616 posts)If nobody cares, then we are mandated to head down that very familiar road of history. IMO.
JEB
(4,748 posts)He forgot to mention it also trumps anything else in its way. Workers are being steam rolled.
Rex
(65,616 posts)Looking like it.
still_one
(92,418 posts)compromise. I have no doubt that Sanders and Warren have a major problem with the fast track vote. In fact there is no way anyone should be for fast tracking
Rex
(65,616 posts)All that is left, is for it to land on the POTUS's desk. Congress just gave it to him in a majority vote for the TPP. No questions asked and if so are not allowed to be asked in public.
still_one
(92,418 posts)still_one
(92,418 posts)the case the TPP is a done deal
woo me with science
(32,139 posts)How familiar this slimy, dishonest MO is by now.
Note our corrupt corporate Dems took the time to *pretend* they opposed it first. To get the headlines saying that Democrats were standing up against this sack of predatory shit.
*Then* they reversed course, after the public accolades were heard by Americans.
Just like Obama's lying, highly publicized speech pretending that he would rein in military involvement...followed immediately by two new wars in Syria and Iraq, funding carpet-bombing of captive populations in Gaza, and a trillion-dollar escalation in nuclear weapons.
We are ruled by manipulative propagandists and craven corporate criminals who do not hesitate to lie to our faces, pretending to stand for one agenda while pursuing the opposite.
They constantly manipulate what Americans will see and remember, while selling us out to predators.
What a cesspool of deliberate corruption our government has become.
KG
(28,753 posts)their wall street masters must 've really dropped the hammer...
doc03
(35,378 posts)Democrat in the Whitehouse for 6 years and nothing, zero has been done to correct the SS or Medicare mess. Multi employer
pension plans can now cut our benefits. The funding requirements on Defined Benefit Plans were changed. I just got a notice last week
that under the old rules my plan would be funded at 67.33% and the company would have to make a $31,381,280 contribution. But now under the new rules it is funded at 82.94% and the company gets by with $18,,497,787. The pension liabilities never went down they just changed it so it appears there is more money in it. The PBGC has billions more in liabilities than they can ever pay and absolutely nothing has been done about that. Now we get another job killer trade deal.
Autumn
(45,120 posts)doc03
(35,378 posts)probably be a Republican making the changes in 2017, heaven help us.
MrMickeysMom
(20,453 posts)First Speaker
(4,858 posts)...gave Senator Blumenthal's office a call about fifteen minutes ago. I have hopes for him on this...he's a damned good man, and the young lady I spoke with told me that the overwhelming percentage of calls and e-mails on this issue were anti-TPP...
boston bean
(36,223 posts)the cave in began.
joshcryer
(62,276 posts)I stayed away from it because I knew this would happen.