I acknowledge I've stayed with Obamatrade & I thank conservative cavers for putting up with me, not blasting me out into space & providing this forum for me to vent.
Okay, here's Senator Jeff Sessions, hanging in there, not retreating, but I imagine he's feeling angst this evening. A heartfelt plea, for this gentleman cares as much for our Constitutional freedoms & America's sovereignty as does Boehner, McConnell & Ryan et al. care about the goods from lobbyists & special interest. Sessions "has issued yet another clarion call to House Republicans urging them to abandon GOP leadership’s desperate ploys to bring Obamatrade back to life and instead vote against Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) and stop President Obama from getting even more power in his final years in office."
Think of this as his final, dire warning to other legislators before they attempt to pass this, which may be tomorrow.
Senator Sessions:
“The House is preparing to vote again tomorrow on providing fast-track executive authority to the President. If adopted, it will be sent immediately to the Senate for final consideration."
“It is essential that there be no misunderstanding: fast-track preapproves the formation of not only the unprecedentedly large Trans-Pacific Partnership, but an unlimited number of such agreements over the next six years."
"Those pacts include three of the most ambitious ever contemplated. After TPP comes the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) between the United States and the European Union, followed by the Trade in Services Agreement (TiSA), seeking as one its goals labor mobility among more than 50 nations."
"Together, these three international compacts encompass three-fourths of the world’s GDP. Including the nations whose membership is being courted for after enactment, the countries involved would encompass nearly 90 percent of global GDP."
"Yet, through fast-track, Congress will have authorized the President to ink these deals before a page of them has been made public. Then, the Executive sends Congress ‘implementing’ legislation to change U.S. law—legislation which cannot be amended, cannot be filibustered, and will not be subjected to the Constitutional requirement for a two-thirds treaty vote.â€
“This nation has never seen an agreement that compares to the TPP, which forms a new Pacific Union."
"This is far more than a trade agreement, but creates a self-governing and self-perpetuating Commission with extraordinary implications for American workers and American sovereignty."
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/06/17/jeff-sessions-on-obamatrades-new-pacific-union-like-the-eu-something-america-has-never-seen-before/