TPP: Unions descend on the Hill: Labor leaders will be on the Hill today to talk to members of
Congress about why they should oppose the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
Hatch 'very upset' about status of TPP biologics: Senate Finance Committee Orrin Hatch isn’t feeling too cheery about the deal either. He told reporters that the Obama administration has not made any meaningful effort yet to address concerns that many lawmakers have about the length of data protection for biologics.
Lawmakers from tobacco-producing states and business groups are aiming to torpedo a sweeping Asia-Pacific deal over a provision they believe will severely damage the U.S. industry. Delegates from North Carolina, where the majority of the nation’s tobacco is grown, says language in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) unfairly targets the Tar Heel State’s prized crop.
The final deal between the United States and 11 other nations, however, removes legal protections for tobacco interests, giving the participating countries more power to deliver potent health messages and removes tobacco from investor-state dispute settlement process.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), who has warned the White House not to target tobacco, told reporters on Tuesday there were “a number of troubling parts,” but he said that senators were still in the process of reading the agreement to determine their stance on the deal.
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With unions and environmental groups on the same side opposing TPP as Orrin Hatch, Mitch McConnell and tobacco congressmen, I don't think it is going anywhere.
