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Later today, governors from both parties will gather at the Willard InterContinental Hotel in Washington D.C. for an evening with powerful corporate lobbyists and businessmen to discuss a new free trade deal. Trade officials from the Obama administration are expected to brief attendees with information of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement, a new trade agreement that has been discussed since last year.
The Trans-Pacific trade agreement is rumored to open up Vietnam and seven Pacific Rim countries as a low-cost alternative to Chinese labor. However, as Public Citizen points out, even members of Congress have not seen the details of the proposal.
The event features Governors Steve Beshear (D-KY), Terry Branstad (R-IA), Matt Mead (R-WY), Bev Perdue (D-NC), Brian Schweitzer (D-MT) Gary Herbert (R-UT), who will be joined by John Engler, a lobbyist who heads the Business Roundtable, a corporate influence peddling group that counts major CEOs as members. Corporations sponsoring the event include Amgen, GE, Intuit, Microsoft, Wal-Mart, TIA, Chevron, Target, and Phillip Morris International. Industry lobbying groups PhrMA and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce are also listed as sponsors.
Read more: http://www.republicreport.org/2012/governors-lobbyists-discuss-asian-free-trade/
xchrom
(108,903 posts)Report1212
(661 posts)The others don't surprise me.
djean111
(14,255 posts)so I am not surprised at all - he seems like he is becoming a DINO.
MisterP
(23,730 posts)Kip Humphrey
(4,753 posts)instead. All I can say is, "Watch out, China! We're about to do to you what we did to northern Mexico."
onethatcares
(16,133 posts)how ya gonna keep em down on the paddies once they've seen the great things sweat shops can do?
fucking planet owners, what is their next plan? Do you think they'll try to seduce the head hunters in Brazil to
work for trinkets in tall buildings?