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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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To: locogringo who wrote (864915)6/12/2015 8:01:21 PM
From: Wharf Rat  Read Replies (1) of 1576882
 
I've been against the TPP ever since I first heard about it, a year or 2 ago.
I've also been calling Obama a Raygun Republican since 12/10.

Here was the progressive defeat...

Senate passes 'fast track' trade promotion bill
By Ted Barrett, CNN

Updated 10:55 PM ET, Fri May 22, 2015

Many Democrats -- led by liberal senators Sherrod Brown of Ohio and Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts -- warned the bill would lead to American jobs moving overseas, where wages and worker protections are not as strong.

"We've seen the devastating cost of bad trade deals over the years so we know that fast track trade promotion authority is not the way to ensure that the American public receives the full and thorough debate on the vast implications of the Trans-Pacific Partnership," the AFL-CIO said in a statement this week.

cnn.com
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