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Show us the deal: Senators Warren, Manchin demand Obama disclose TPP
A bill which gives the president a fast-track authority (TPA bill) was rejected in the Congress. However, the bill was brought to a vote again and was passed by the Senate on 14. There are still many Democrats opposing to the TPP agreement in the House and reportedly, it remains uncertain how the bill will be finalized.
I
feel something like obsession of the Obama administration. However,
even though the U.S. is on the verge of collapse of a nation, I feel
that the U.S., which is on the verge of collapse, cannot afford to
negotiate about the TPP. If the public know the truth, there is even
the possibility that they will get furious, go on a rampage and
attack random the rich. The Obama administration tries to promote the
TPP negotiations in spite of such situations. All I can think about
is that the administration feels confident in suppressing the public
with military power.
Since
the TPP is a core bill of the New World Order (NWO), it apparently is
against the will of God. Those who call Obama a person who sides with
Light seem to be ignorant or be part of Darkness. I think I will be
able to explain about this at some time.
Masatoshi
Takeshita
May
21, 2015
From
a Japanese article: Overseas Articles Never Reported by Mass Media
– May 21, 2015 –
Show
us the deal: Senators Warren, Manchin demand Obama disclose TPP
Original
source:
Published
time: May 19, 2015 22:42
US
Senators Elizabeth Warren (D—MA) and
Joe Manchin (D-W.Va) (Reiters)
Two
Senate Democrats
have sponsored a bill demanding the White House reveal
the terms of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) to the public
at least two months before Congress could give President Obama
fast-track authority.
Joe
Manchin of West Virginia joined Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts in
proposing the two-page
Trade Transparency Act, reports The Hill. If
adopted,
the bill would
require
the White House release the “scrubbed bracketed text of any trade
agreement” no
less than 60 days prior to a vote in Congress on fast-tracking the
treaty.
“The
Trade Transparency Act would ensure that the public, experts, and the
press can engage in meaningful debate over the terms of trade deals
before Congress reduces its ability to shape, amend, or block those
deals,”
said
Warren. “Before
Congress ties its hands on trade deals, the American people should be
allowed to see for themselves whether these agreements are good for
them.”
“If
President Bush was willing to pull back the curtain and allow the
American people to view the entire Free Trade Area of the Americas
agreement, then President Obama should be willing to do the same
before we grant him fast track authority,”
added Manchin. “If
this bill is as good for the American worker as proponents have
claimed, then the Administration should let the American worker see
the details before Congress is forced to grant the President Trade
Promotion Authority.”
Warren
has been an outspoken critic of the TPP and other free trade
agreements, releasing a report on Monday laying out two decades of
“broken promises” by successive administrations when it came to
free trade treaties.
The
White House has been promoting
the TPP as “the
most progressive trade agreement in history,”
that would have “higher
labor standards, higher environmental standards”
and “new
tools to hold countries accountable.”
Obama
himself stepped up to champion the deal,
firing back at Warren by calling her “a
politician like everybody else”
whose arguments “don't
stand the test of fact and scrutiny."
The
administration has
also maintained
that the treaty is still being negotiated, and that fast-track
authority was needed to finalize the talks.
A senior adviser at the National Economic Council argued that
publicly
announcing the details of the deal would be harmful to US interests.
“There’s
a very good reason we won’t do that: We’re trying to drive a hard
bargain so the American people get the best deal possible,”
wrote
Greg Nelson in a White House blog post. “We
can’t do that if we show the other players our cards, so to speak.”
Obama
himself has shrugged off comparisons with other free trade deals.
“You
need to tell me what’s wrong with this trade agreement, not one
that was passed 25 years ago,”
he told the Organizing for America conference in April.
Michael
Wessel, a former Obama campaign adviser
and
one of the people cleared for access to TPP drafts,
says that specific criticism is impossible, though. Anyone
who has read the text of the agreement could be jailed for disclosing
its contents,
he wrote
in Politico.
“The
government has created a perfect Catch 22: The
law prohibits us from talking about the specifics of what we’ve
seen,
allowing the president to criticize us for not being specific,”
Wessel wrote. “Instead
of simply admitting that he
disagrees with
me—and
with many other cleared advisors—about
the merits of the TPP, the president instead pretends
that our specific, pointed criticisms don’t exist.”
Congress
is currently considering a bill giving the White House fast-track
authority to negotiate the TPP,
a trade pact that would include 11 Pacific Rim countries, notably
excluding China. Warren and Manchin maintain that keeping the details
of the agreement classified makes it impossible for legislators to
amend the treaty, and difficult to block its final approval.