LAST CHANCE to stop Fast track. They're still RAMMING to get it through. Act NOW.

[Triana]

This week - as early as tomorrow - the Senate Republican leadership is trying to ram through a version of Fast Track that is even worse for working people and the environment than the proposal previously rejected by House Democrats.

The House snuck Fast Track through. Now, just 8 undecided Senators are our last hope of stopping it.

Fight for the Future are organizing a last-ditch petition, and delivering it in-person to the Senate on Monday, ahead of the expected Tuesday vote. Sign this petition and tell your Senator:

"If you vote yes on Fast Track, we pledge to vote against you in the next election."

LINK: https://www.stopfasttrack.com/?t=dXNlcmlkPTUyNzgyMDgxLGVtYWlsaWQ9OTg2OA==

Senators names, phone numbers and twitter addresses are included in the link above. SIGN, CALL, TWEET NOW!

[Triana]

1. One of my tweets...

@RonWyden @MarkWarner -vote for #FastTrack or #TPP - your constituents will never vote for YOU again! #NoFastTrack #NoTPP

If you're on twitter - tweet ALL OF THEM tonight and tomorrow morning.

[sabrina 1]

14. Thank you for posting this. They better NOT pass it, because every single Labor Organization in the

country and over 2000 Liberal orgs, most representing the PEOPLE are outraged and promising to make it a mission to dump every one of those who betray the workers of this country.

Global Trade Watch ?@PCGTW Jun 17



Entire US labor movement & 2,000 #progressive organizations all say #NoFastTrack for the #TPP: http://www.StopFastTrackNow.org

Expose The TPP ?@ExposeTPP Jun 17



#TPP impacts 800 million people & 40% of global GDP! Act now so your Rep votes #NoFastTrack: http://www.StopFastTrackNow.org

If it passes it will go down as one of the worst betrayals of the people in living memory.

[Triana]

2. Kick. Hello?

Seriously? This should have tons of recs and stay kicked for the next 24-48 hours!

[A Little Weird]

3. Kick

I don't really think it will be stopped but I'm still holding out hope for a miracle.

[Triana]

4. It won't if Dem senators are not bombarded with calls, petitions, tweets.

Attention spans are SO short. No fight in anybody anymore.

[Elwood P Dowd]

5. The PTB, the Wall Street billionaire crowd that controls the USTR, will $pend whatever

amount nece$$ary to get is pa$$ed.

[senseandsensibility]

6. kick, and

thanks, Triana.

[bvar22]

7. Cynic Here.

A hard earned cynicism from watching the Democrats over the last 25 years.
"They" KNOW the American People oppose this,
so "they" script some Kabuki Theater to confuse the issue, and make it look like the American People have a voice in our government.
We don't.

This will pass with just enough Democratic supporters to advance the Agenda of the RICH. The vote will probably be in the middle of the night (like CAFTA) with a lot of vote switching at the very end so only a few Democratic Senators (not up for election this year) defect from the Party to make sure it passes.
Next time....it will be some other Democrat's Turn in the Barrel
so that during Campaign Season they can claim...."Voted with the Democrats 92% of the TIME>>>YAY.

What "they" don't tell you is how many of those votes against the Democratic Party were crucially important...set policy.

This is a Done Deal
All we can do is watch the Kabuki Theater play out,
and everybody has a good seat.

[Aerows]

9. I say, don't come back

expecting a vote from me if you vote for it.

That's all I've got - one vote, but it won't go to a damn soul that supports this monstrosity. That is largely why I reject Hillary as a candidate. I'll vote for her if I have to, but until then, I'll push for anybody that has upfront, publicly and unambiguously stood against it.

[bvar22]

10. That is the only open avenue for us.

Bernie will refuse to sign it if he is President.
Of that, I am sure.

I won't even have a vote for President in our Primary.
It is over before it gets here,
but if I have to, I will write in Bernie with a clear conscience.

[Art_from_Ark]

11. The Arkansas primary

where liberal candidates are forced out before it begins.

*Sigh*

[sabrina 1]

15. IF this passes, then it will become even MORE urgent to get Bernie into the WH. The power that

Congress is meekly considering giving up, their Constitutional DUTY, will go to the Executive Branch, which will have sole powers to negotiate trade deals for the next six years.

Imagine what this means. Imagine any one of the Capitalists currently running for the WH, all of them indebted to Corporate entities, being in possession of that power? The FFs would roll over in their graves.

IF it happens, then hopefully EVERY UNION, and all 2000 Progressive Orgs who are representing people, the elderly, disabled etc and who strongly oppose this, will carry out their threat to make sure none of the betrayers return to their cushy jobs in DC. But even MORE important will be WHO this power will be passed on to.

And I have a feeling that if it passes, all those groups, the entire labor force which is vehemently against it, will support Bernie understanding that HE will be the ONLY hope to stop the abuse that will most certainly occur if any one of the Corporate funded candidates were to win.

[Volaris]

18. Somebody else's turn in the barrel.

The originator of that little piece of governmental mischief, as I remember correctly, was Gingrich.

[Triana]

12. From Alan Grayson...

This is becoming ridiculous.

A month ago, the Senate voted against the "Fast Track" trade giveaway bill. But the job thieves didn't give up - they held another vote, a week later. Thanks to some mumbo-jumbo regarding currency manipulation, 13 Democrats switched sides, and Fast Track passed the Senate.

Two weeks ago, the House voted against the Senate's Fast Track bill or, more specifically, the "trade assistance" part of the bill. But the job thieves didn't give up - they held another vote, a week later. Thanks to some mumbo-jumbo regarding trade assistance, 28 out of 188 House Democrats voted in favor of Fast Track, which sent it back to the Senate, minus trade assistance. (For the names of those House Democrats, see our last e-mail.)

The Senate will vote again on Fast Track, tomorrow. Basically, they're just going to keep voting on it, until you get screwed.

Are you starting to see a pattern here? The job thieves are relentless. So we have to be relentless-er than they are. We need to be just as tireless, steadfast, resolute, persevering, unflagging and indefatigable as they are - more so. We can't give up.

Which means that we need to hit the phones. Again.

Reproduced below, for whatever purposes you deem fit, are the names, addresses and URLs of 13 Senators who really, really ought to hear from you. And here is what they should hear, here:

(1) Our trade debt stands at eleven trillion dollars ($11,000,000,000,000.00). That's more than $35,000 for every human being in America - including you. "Fast Track" would pave the way for new trade bills that would increase that. How are we ever going to pay that money back?
(2) Fast Track applies to whatever the Executive Branch calls a trade agreement, even if it has nothing to do with trade.
(3) Fast Track unconstitutionally restricts Congress from holding hearings, conducting investigations, debating a bill and offering amendments - basically, its job. In fact, it could restrict each House Member to only 83 seconds of debate.
(4) No other bills get this special treatment - not bills on taxes, or Social Security, or defense, or transportation, or healthcare. Nothing.
(5) Fast Track applies to trade bills that the Executive Branch hasn't even released to the public.
(6) None of the "standards" that Fast Track sets for trade agreements is enforceable - not one single standard.

Hear, hear!

Tell them "NO" on Fast Track! Call or e-mail - just do it. Below is a list of every Senate Democrat who voted to let Fast Track steamroll over us, a month ago. Pick one, pick them all, and MAKE THEM LISTEN.

Courage,

Rep. Alan Grayson

Bennet, Michael F. - (D - CO)
261 Russell Senate Office Building Washington DC 20510
[phone]
Contact: www.bennet.senate.gov/contact/

Cantwell, Maria - (D - WA)
511 Hart Senate Office Building Washington DC 20510
[phone]
Contact: www.cantwell.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/email-maria

Carper, Thomas R. - (D - DE)
513 Hart Senate Office Building Washington DC 20510
[phone]
Contact: carper.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/email-senator-carper

Coons, Christopher A. - (D - DE)
127A Russell Senate Office Building Washington DC 20510
[phone]
Contact: www.coons.senate.gov/contact/

Feinstein, Dianne - (D - CA)
331 Hart Senate Office Building Washington DC 20510
[phone]
Contact: www.feinstein.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/e-mail-me

Heitkamp, Heidi - (D - ND)
110 Hart Senate Office Building Washington DC 20510
[phone]
Contact: www.heitkamp.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/contact

Kaine, Tim - (D - VA)
388 Russell Senate Office Building Washington DC 20510
[phone]
Contact: www.kaine.senate.gov/contact

McCaskill, Claire - (D - MO)
730 Hart Senate Office Building Washington DC 20510
[phone]
Contact: www.mccaskill.senate.gov/contact

Murray, Patty - (D - WA)
154 Russell Senate Office Building Washington DC 20510
[phone]
Contact: www.murray.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/contactme

Nelson, Bill - (D - FL)
716 Hart Senate Office Building Washington DC 20510
[phone]
Contact: www.billnelson.senate.gov/contact-bill

Shaheen, Jeanne - (D - NH)
506 Hart Senate Office Building Washington DC 20510
[phone]
Contact: www.shaheen.senate.gov/contact/

Warner, Mark R. - (D - VA)
475 Russell Senate Office Building Washington DC 20510
[phone]
Contact: www.warner.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?p=Contact

Wyden, Ron - (D - OR)
221 Dirksen Senate Office Building Washington DC 20510
[phone]
Contact: www.wyden.senate.gov/contact/

[sabrina 1]

16. I can't believe Ron Wyden is on the hesitant list. It WAS HE who alerted us to the fact

that Congress was being prevented from participating, from even SEEING what was in the secret deal.

Did they threaten him or something?

Shame on anyone who votes for this. Shame for their betrayal of the people who trusted them to stand up and FIGHT for THEM.

[daleanime]

13. Hell yes....

[RB TexLa]

17. It's going to pass. We are not going to turn to economic isolationism

The world is getting smaller, nothing is going to stop that. Scream at the clouds all you want.

[Triana]

20. false choice between "economic isolationism" and decent paying jobs,

healthy environment and public safety.

We can do better for US workers and citizens and for food safety and our natural environment than some secret manifesto written by huge corporations and wall street which will decimate all of the aforementioned.

All must be vehemently protected in a FAIR (not "FREE&quot trade agreement.

We can do better.

Our corrupt "representatives" and the President should stop letting robber barons - including US trade rep Michael Froman and his CitiBank and Wall Street buddies - write our trade policies.

Bullshit.

[Betty Karlson]

19. K&R eom

[Baitball Blogger]

21. Does calling Congressmen outside our states really make a difference?

Don't they just count the people from their own districts?