A Democrat Congressman is blasting the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal — which impacts 40 percent of the world economy, consists of 12 countries and was made public on Thursday — saying it includes “exclusions up the wazoo.”
Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) is blasting the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal that was made public Thursday. Sessions tells Breitbart News Daily on SiriusXM that the deal is “an erosion of sovereignty.”
Speaker of the House Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) previously denied that the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal impacted U.S. immigration; however, now that the full 5,544 pages of the TPP are public and being reviewed by experts, Ryan’s statement was false.
Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Immigration and the National Interest, is calling for the immediate destruction of the 5,554-page Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trans-global trade deal introduced on Thursday.
President Obama strongly urges passage of the bill, but he’ll need Republicans to do it. Not many Senators or Congressmen from his own party support the Trans-Pacific Partnership. Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton infamously flipped to oppose the bill, after praising it for years, in part because Big Labor hates it.
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) free-trade deal is 5,544 pages long – that’s longer than both Obamacare and Sen. Marco Rubio’s (R-FL) failed “Gang of Eight” immigration bill.
Two Russian media outlets are reporting that Secretary of State John Kerry invited Russia and China to join the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) free-trade deal.
Indonesia, the world’s largest Muslim country, plans to join 11 other countries under the Trans Pacific Partnership trade deal.
Congressional Democrats are battling to force the Obama administration to release the actual text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) “Obamatrade” trade deal.
Negotiators for the huge Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) free trade pact said Friday they were aiming to conclude a deal next year, after making “substantial progress” this week at talks in in Miami. Week-long discussions in the Florida
Thursday at the United States Hispanic Chamber of Commerce in Texas, Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton doubled down on her debate claim that she had seen the details of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal, which she said were made public
Paul Ryan was one of the strongest advocates to grant Obama fast-track trade authority under the Trade Promotion Authority (TPA).
The Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement between the U.S. and 11 other countries contains a chapter on intellectual property rights that could impact freedom of expression, according to The Guardian. This news comes after Breitbart News reported there is a controversial chapter on immigration law within the Trade in Services Act (TiSA), another part of President Obama’s trade pact.
Vietnam appears to be the biggest winner among the 12 countries in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade pact, says multiple news reports. “This is really transformational for Vietnam,” IHS Global Insight’s Asia Pacific Chief Economist Rajiv Biswas told ABC News. “They’re going to get a very big advantage over many other exporters of garments into the U.S. market.”
Tuesday on NewsMaxTV’s “Newsmax Prime,” conservative commentator Pat Buchanan warned politicians in the Republican Party that if they were to allow the passage of the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement to pass. Buchanan explained to hosts J.D. Hayworth and Miranda Khan that it would cost
The media normally treats a politician’s dramatic policy shifts as insincere or foolish “flip-flops,” at least when it’s Republicans changing their minds. Let’s see how they handle one of the most blatant flip-flops in recent memory, as presidential candidate Hillary Clinton suddenly denounces the huge Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal that she championed as Secretary of State.
But President Obama acknowledges that certain economic trends would continue in spite of the deal, including lower wages for American workers and currency manipulation. He also admitted that currency manipulation rules wouldn’t be enforceable under the deal, even though labor standards and environmental standards would be enforceable.
GOP frontrunner Donald Trump is hammering President Barack Obama, his administration and Congress for completely failing the American worker when it comes to trade policy—whacking the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade pact with 12 Pacific Rim nations that the Obama just finalized in Atlanta as a deal that jeopardizes U.S. jobs.
Gov. Mike Huckabee slammed President Barack Obama’s new campaign to win Hill approval for a new Pacific-wide free-trade treaty with 11 countries. “Once again, American workers are getting punched in the gut by Washington because this deal is a handout to insiders, interest groups, Obama’s allies and Asia,” said Huckabee, a GOP presidential candidate and former Arkansas governor, shortly after the president announced the completed deal Oct. 5.
President Obama faces a fight in Congress, and opposition from Democrat and Republican presidential candidates, as he revs up his campaign for congressional approval of the deeply-unpopular Trans-Pacific Partnership free-trade deal. The deal was finalized Oct. 5 by trade ministers from
The Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal faces a major hurdle Wednesday when leaders from 12 different countries will reconvene to try to finalize the deal, which has been five years in the making, according to The Financial Times. The
Billionaire Donald Trump, the 2016 GOP frontrunner, tells Breitbart News he doesn’t believe Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) read Obamatrade before becoming the critical 60th vote for President Barack Obama’s trade agenda.
During an interview with 60 Minutes, GOP frontrunner Donald Trump was questioned about the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), calling it a “disaster” and saying America needs “fair trade,” not “free trade.”
Assemblyman Rocky Chavez (R-Oceanside), a Republican candidate for U.S. Senate, likened Democratic rival Kamala Harris to socialist Bernie Sanders in remarks to the press corps Saturday at the California Republican Convention.
The United States Trade Representative (USTR) — responding to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request — is finally revealing the chapter titles of the pending Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal, confirming there is a chapter relating to immigration titled, “Temporary Entry for Business Persons.”
AJ Kern—“a politically engaged resident of Sauk Rapids” who publishes a column for the St. Cloud Times (SCTimes)—recently argued that worker visas and the Trade Pacific Partnership (TPP) threaten American workers.
Florida Sen. Marco Rubio’s office claims—while refusing to answer questions—that the senator read Obamatrade before voting for cloture on Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) the second time in the Senate.
The legislation passed the House last week, and now moves to President Obama’s desk for his signature.
Vermont Senator and Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders criticized Hillary Clinton for not taking a position on the Trans-Pacific Partnership on Wednesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.” Sanders said, “You can be for the TPP. You can be against the TPP.
GOP presidential candidate and real estate mogul Donald Trump called into Howie Carr’s radio show Tuesday to say that if he is doing well during his candidacy, he would spend whatever it takes to win.
Rubio, a Republican presidential candidate, was the deciding vote necessary for the U.S. Senate to clear the final 60-vote threshold and eventually, later this week, send to President Barack Obama’s desk the Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) bill that would fast-track at least three highly secretive trade deals that Obama has been negotiating for years.
Kentucky Senator and GOP presidential candidate Rand Paul argued that TPA is giving the president power on trade bills, some of which he says seem like “more of an outline of the bill” on Tuesday’s broadcast of “The Kuhner Report” on Boston’s
The cloture vote ends further debate setting up the final TPA vote in the Senate Wednesday. If it passes, it moves on to the president’s desk to be signed.
“We have to take the jobs away from other countries that are making our product, they’re taking our money, and they are in fact taking our jobs,” Trump said.
GOP presidential candidate and businessman Donald Trump is warning the Senate against passing Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) on Tuesday.
On Friday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Ed Show,” PBS’ “Ralston Live” host Jon Ralston said that Hillary Clinton was caught off guard and uneasy after being asked for her position on TPA in an interview she did with him. When asked
In an exclusive interview with Breitbart News, GOP presidential candidate and billionaire businessman Donald Trump slammed President Obama’s trade agreements – especially the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) – which Obama argued the United States needs in order to better compete with China.
NBC’s “Meet the Press” host Chuck Todd declared that Hillary Clinton is “trying to have it both ways” on trade on Friday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “The Rundown with Jose Diaz-Balart.” Todd said, “she’s trying to have it both ways. She’s
“Perhaps Clinton’s need to tack so nakedly and embarrassingly to the left will be over by the time that happens and she can return to her previous support for TPP,” Politici writes. “But she will not have covered herself in glory (or consistency or trust-worthiness) by the time that happens.”
To engage in the complicated procedural chicanery needed to revive the once-dead Obamatrade, bringing its Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) portion back to life, Ryan needed to gut a previous bill that has passed the House and Senate and then insert Obamatrade into it. It’s actually a very similar process to how Obamacare passed the House.
