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| We Can Kill Obamatrade - Senator Sessions |
Republican Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions – who led the populist revolt against fast-track and TPP – wants Americans to understand TPP can still be killed.
In an exclusive interview on Breitbart News Sunday Sirius XM radio with Breitbart News Executive Chairman Stephen K. Bannon, Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL) was asked: “Is there any way for [TPP] to be defeated in the United States Senate?” Sessions answered that yes, it is “possible” to kill the TPP bill.
Obamatrade collectively refers to Trade Promotion Authority (TPA), which is the controversial fast-track mechanism for ramming bills through Congress with minimum scrutiny, and the three major trade deals that would be guaranteed these ‘fast-track’ protections before a page of them had been made public: the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (T-TIP) and Trade in Services Agreement (TiSA).
Sessions has previously pointed out that these three trade deals collectively encompass 90 percent of global GDP.
That’s how Obamatrade turns legislative procedure on its head. GOP leaders and Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) voted to give Obama these new powers to ink globalist trade pacts - without any real legislative scrutiny - before a single word of them was publicly available. As Sessions declared in his final warning prior to the passage of fast track authority:
The entire purpose of fast-track is for Congress to surrender its power to the Executive for six years.
A vote for fast-track is a vote to authorize the President to ink the secret [TPP] deal contained in these pages - to affix his name on the Union and to therefore enter the United States into it.
Like the Gang of Eight, like Obamacare and so much else - the goal is to get it approved before the American people know what’s in it.
Under fast track authority (TPA), which passed in June of this year, Congress cedes its ability to amend the trade deals negotiated by Obama, and lowers the 67 vote treaty threshold to a mere simple majority. The Senate even surrenders its 60 vote filibuster.
After the passage of fast track, the only off-ramp that exists to block Obama’s trade deals is controlled by Paul Ryan, Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT), Rep. Pete Sessions (R-TX) and Congressional leadership - depriving individual members of their ability to exercise control.
Historically, no trade deal moved through Congress with the fast track mechanism has ever been blocked. That is why Sessions emphasized that a vote for fast-track was a vote for Obamatrade. But Sessions is saying that it’s still not too late to derail TPP and therefore stop Obamatrade in its tracks.
Senator Sessions says that despite the procedural fact that Congress has ceded its Constitutional powers, it would be possible to generate enough opposition to stop TPP from getting the needed majority vote . . . .
Read more at Breitbart.com
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