House revives Obama’s trade agenda with passage of fast track bill

[former9thward]

Source: Washington Post

The House voted to resurrect the centerpiece of President Obama’s trade agenda Thursday, six days after his fellow Democrats dealt him a dramatic setback after a monthslong lobbying effort.

Thursday’s 218-208 vote to grant Obama “fast track” authority to negotiate trade deals — including the controversial 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership — is a win for the president, but it is not yet a victory.

It is the first in a complicated series of moves to get around a blockade set up by liberal House Democrats against the president’s trade agenda. The original plan was complicated enough — four separate bills, two of them packaged in one piece for the Senate, but then split apart for House consideration into four votes.


Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/obamas-trade-agenda-relying-on-vanishing-commodity-trust-is-key/2015/06/18/b4532da2-1536-11e5-9518-f9e0a8959f32_story.html?wpisrc=al_alert-COMBO-politics%252Bnation

[daleanime]

1. ......

[navarth]

2. surprise, surprise.

I guess they think we're not watching anymore.

[Fred Sanders]

3. So last week "Obama lost" and this week "Obama won"? Good thing we have the media to keep it simple.

The fact that the process is complicated, now international negotiations can continue, the details of the trade deal will be opened up to the public, will all now be reported as if it already was.

[LongTomH]

4. Damn, damn, damn, damn, DAMN!!!!!!

[Robbins]

5. well

Corporations have won.Democracy is dead.Now corportations can now go to secret tribunles to overide us law.

Corproate Dems and republicans have screwed over unions and working class.

[NRaleighLiberal]

6. shit.

[UCmeNdc]

7. How many Republicans voted for it? 201 Republicans to 17 Democratic Reps?

I have to research this number.

[Proud Public Servant]

12. #8 was supposed to be a reply to you. D'oh! (nt)

[Proud Public Servant]

8. 190 GOP + 28 Dems

50 GOP voted no.

[Plucketeer]

9. FIGHTING MAD

am I!!!

Anyone know when the next act of this CHARADE!

[Dont call me Shirley]

10. Would someone please post the Dems who voted for it?

[Proud Public Servant]

16. Here you go

Ashford
Bera
Beyer
Blumenauer
Bonamici
Connolly
Cooper
Costa
Cuellar
Davis (CA)
Delaney
DelBene
Farr
Himes
Hinojosa
Johnson, E. B.
Kilmer
Kind
Larsen (WA)
Meeks
O'Rourke
Peters
Polis
Quigley
Rice (NY)
Schrader
Sewell (AL)
Wasserman Schultz

[asiliveandbreathe]

20. Thank you - now on to the senate so called dems to watch out for

Michael Bennet of Colorado
Maria Cantwell of Washington
Benjamin L. Cardin of Maryland
Thomas R. Carper of Delaware
Chris Coons of Delaware
ianne Feinstein of California
Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota
Tim Kaine of Virginia
Claire McCaskill of Missouri
Patty Murray of Washington
Bill Nelson of Florida
Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire
Mark Warner of Virginia and Ron Wyden of Oregon.

[mountain grammy]

23. I'll be calling Michael Bennet

for all the good it'll do. I just tossed his Christmas card thanking me for my donation to his campaign.

[mountain grammy]

21. My Congressman is on that list,

damn, damn, damn. I'm usually proud of Jared Polis, but today I'm reminded he's a very wealthy businessman. Certainly part of the top 10%, if not the 1%.
When push comes to shove, the votes almost always are against the 99%

I will call him today and remind him the 99% are still here and we're not getting any better.

[asiliveandbreathe]

24. You are so good mountain grammy - here in

AZ - I have NOONE to call!

Be well, -

[mountain grammy]

28. We're hanging on by a thread..

you be well too.

[Dont call me Shirley]

25. Thanks, Proud Public Servant!

[truebrit71]

30. Wasserman Schultz

Of course she did....

[Freddie Stubbs]

17. Roll call:

http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2015/roll374.xml

[asiliveandbreathe]

18. HELP me to understand your link -

BILL TITLE: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow Federal law enforcement officers, firefighters, and air traffic controllers to make penalty-free withdrawals from governmental plans after age 50, and for other purposes -

Are you saying this is the TPA vote?

[Freddie Stubbs]

19. Yes. They merged the TPA bill into another bill

[asiliveandbreathe]

22. Thanks Freddie - now that you point that out

I recall that, in all my readings this A.M. - sneaky bunch....crouching tiger, hidden dragon...tks again...and I thought I was on top of this issue...I am such a Pollyanna...

[Populist_Prole]

11. Listen to the GOP-ers crowing about this

"Praising" the democratic traitors as they wax enthusiastic about "trust".

Fucking Lindsay Graham for chrissakes is suddenly the president's ally.

I think I just threw up in my mouth.

[AzDar]

13. K & R

[lark]

14. Sickening!!

Lindsey Graham being Obama's BFF. Boner and Mitchell working to pass the presidents' TOP priority -


All working hand in hand to screw us over royally. "I've got to get out of this place"

[LiberalLovinLug]

15. Depressing

Normally I'd be thinking I can't wait until we can turf out a sell-out like this in the White House as soon as possible. This kind of stubbornness on his part sure would have come in handy when he was pledging that the ACA would not have his signature without a public option. Its obvious he has willfully surrounded himself with corporate lobbyists as advisers, and has convinced himself that the promises of a cushy executive position and corporate speaking tours is his gold ticket once he leaves office. I'm sure he's convinced himself that it is quite nobly all for his family's financial security.

but...who is next on the docket? Hillary?...Jeb? How will anything change?

The only hope is if Bernie can transcend and catch fire despite the MSMs best efforts.

[geardaddy]

26. All the DFLers in MN voted no

Even the DINO Colin Peterson.

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

27. Thanks, Hillary!

[Dont call me Shirley]

29. Truly Treasoners...

[TimeToEvolve]

31. obama sells us all, and the Earth down the river to appease his corporate bedfellows

and most people still love him for it.

ignorance=bliss

being a former libertarian turned democratic liberal, i have drastically changed my opinions about almost everything, but one thing has not changed: my complete distrust and resentment for obama (i wont even capitalize his name).

during the '08 elections i already knew that obama was a corporate lackey, just look at his record and his friends (rahm emanual, cass sunstein). i was shocked and appalled when the majority of voters were all running like lemmings toward obama, draw in by his personality cult and all of those wonderful, wonderful speeches promising multitudes of social renewal and change ( smart people realized that these promises were hollow lies) none of which has not been realized.

nothing is new, this is just good-old-fasioned bait-&-switch

it is obama's 6th year, and still he has done nothing to address climate change, which is the greatest challenge facing humanity now. when obama began presiding, the scientists said that there was still time to prevent the worst of global warming, 6 years later with nothing to show for them, scientists are now pretty sure we are screwed. now, with the TPP it has been decided by big money that nothing WILL be done , their greed and lust for more will -against the popular will- destroy this beautiful planet that we live on and kill thousands if not millions and make the race to the bottom as horrible as possible.

i do and always will support and spread liberal/democratic values and beliefs. but never will i trust or put my support behind that lying sneaky sneaky sneaky two- faced sociopath obama

only a sociopath can look upon millions of people and lie to their faces about something as bad as the TPP