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byeya

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8. I am willing to believe your analysis but the question I would like answered is, Are members

Reply to pipoman (Reply #5)

Wed Jun 19, 2013, 08:47 AM

Jun 2013

of Congress, through the appropriate committees and subcommittees being allowed to learn of the negotiating positton of the
government?
I have read columnists reprinted in the Progressive Populist quote members of the House and Senate say that they are not.
If I am wrong, I'd like to know so I can quit repeating what I recall reading.

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Congress is kept in the dark; corporations are in on the negotiations. That doesn't seem right byeya Jun 2013 #3

If it were as simple as that pipoman Jun 2013 #5

I am willing to believe your analysis but the question I would like answered is, Are members byeya Jun 2013 #8

"Fast track" pipoman Jun 2013 #9

Just like the GATT and the NAFTA pipoman Jun 2013 #4

K & R ctsnowman Jun 2013 #6

k/r marmar Jun 2013 #7

What's that "giant sucking sound" I keep hearing? mountain grammy Jun 2013 #10

I remember his charts showing how this was going to all go down.... He was pretty precise about midnight Jun 2013 #15

I for one welcome our new economic overlords Fearless Jun 2013 #11

"Fast Track" is more undemocratic crap like the filibuster. bemildred Jun 2013 #12

Its not the White man TheJames Jun 2013 #13

Very right TheJames is.. Welcome to D.U. midnight Jun 2013 #14