Democrat Says Fast-Track Trade Power Can Overcome Party’s Unease

[Purveyor]

Source: Bloomberg

By Billy House Jan 20, 2015 2:57 PM ET

Representative Steny Hoyer, the No. 2 Democrat in the U.S. House, said legislation to give President Barack Obama the ability to win speedy approval of trade accords can pass Congress even with opposition from some party members.

“Can it pass? Yes it can,” said Hoyer of Maryland, who Tuesday said Obama probably will request trade promotion authority from Congress in his State of the Union address.

The Obama administration’s negotiations with 11 governments in the Pacific region would be the first submitted under fast-track authority, which limits Congress to an up-or-down vote and bars amendments on trade agreements.

Democratic lawmakers led by Representatives Rosa DeLauro of Connecticut and Louise Slaughter of New York oppose granting such authority. They argue it would let a president act without congressional input when negotiating deals they said will kill jobs and threaten food safety and environmental regulations.

Read more: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2015-01-20/democrat-says-fast-track-trade-power-can-overcome-party-s-unease.html

[elleng]

1. Damn.

Well, at least I don't VOTE in his district.

[msongs]

5. you voted in obama's "district" did you not? TPP is his family values in action nt

[Samantha]

9. I do

I kind of thought he would support this because he is a "company man." But by coincidence, in writing another thread the other day, I learned he had received $10,000 in political donations from the Koch Brothers around 2010. I should have accessed that post before I started this one -- if I have the time I will edit this post with the exact information.

As I am sure you know, the Koch Brothers stand to make one hundred million dollars over the Keystone pipeline so he will probably support that as well.

Sam

Oops, it was Rupert Murdoch's pac. Just as bad though.

[djean111]

2. No vote or support for anyone who votes for (or receives) Fast Track Authority.

Yeah, we vote in Democrats, any Democrats, and this shit is what we get.

[turbinetree]

3. WE are going down

like a ship with three holes in it and it going to get another hole real soon, everyone see's it play out and the media just don't care.
First one was NAFTA, second was CAFTA, third was the Korean trade agreement for steel, and now finally the coup de ta TPP.
When Hoyer from the state I live in comes out with his remarks, he did not say if he was "against" or "for" the TPP secret trade deal, this says a lot.
He is the front person on almost everything for the party and he voted for the change in the last spending bill to give Citi Group the means to place the Ponzi scheme right back in this Wall Street game of, we (Wall Street ) win's when they (Wall Street) lose they still win, in the derivative market /credit default swaps for bail-outs along with 58 others from our party.
This is OUTRAGOUS, over 5 million jobs have been lost since NAFTA and counting, and we now have a 8 trillion in TRADE DEBT (39 years 1994-2015) which we must pay for.
Over 50,000 lost jobs from the Korean deal, for CAFTA, 57,000 factory jobs have been lost with the advent of over 7 million jobs being displaced.
And if all of the right wingers out there think that this picture is not tied / linked to unemployment and a degrading of wages you are wrong, very wrong they are linked, and with the advent of this TPP, which I like to call the Total Phony Policy of creating jobs by corporate back room dealers is just more smoke screen rhetoric of deceit and deception and the media should have been asking this question about TPP at every news briefing and they FAILED miserably this is what so outrageous.
They (media) were looking for comments about a 47% plutocrat hypocrite trying to put or take off his emperor clothes to be considered for a run at public office again and that he cares about the poor, really lets ask Solendra and there families what its been liked, to have your plant shipped to China, or the U.S Steel workers losing there jobs to Korea, really, the election is over two years away.

[closeupready]

4. Reminds me of Pelosi's "we have to pass it first so that you can find out what's in it"

Very encouraging.

[blkmusclmachine]

6. No wonder why so many people (rightfully) believe that there's not much difference between

the 2 Parties...they're both being paid off by the 1%

[whereisjustice]

8. layoffs are coming, lower wages, higher prices, more misery from Washington - but the rich love it

and that's all we seem to care about.

[Enrique]

10. i love how the GOP is fighting to give Obama more power

"Obama's a tyrant! the Democrats better let us cede our power to him!"