cast the deciding vote for Obamatrade on Tuesday as it squeeked through the U.S. Senate 60-37, and his Senate office is still outright refusing to answer whether he even knew what he was voting on.
Rubio, a Republican presidential candidate, was the deciding vote necessary for the U.S. Senate to clear the final 60-vote threshold and eventually, later this week, send to President Barack Obama’s desk the Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) bill that would fast-track at least three highly secretive trade deals that Obama has been negotiating for years.TPA will, now that it’s going to pass, effectively ensure the congressional approval of the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP), Trade in Services Agreement (TiSA) and Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (T-TIP). The text of the TiSA and T-TIP agreements is currently entirely secretive, even to lawmakers on Capitol Hill and their staffs, though WikiLeaks did uncover several TiSA documents that leaked and prove the deal would surrender congressional power over U.S. immigration policy to the executive branch and perhaps to a newly created transnational entity.
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Our elected officials are arrogant fools. How can one vote on a bill that you have not read? In addition, why would you willingly surrender your congressional powers to some one else? Why? Once again we the people are getting screwed by our leaders.
ReplyDeleteOnce again we the people are getting screwed by our leaders.
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Lets be factually correct here. Every Republican who voted for this, cast the "deciding" vote. No one vote being more important than any other. no single senator having more voting strength than any other. All equal in guilt and shame.
ReplyDeleteAgreed and thanks.
ReplyDeleteI heard an interview on local radio with NC 3rd district congressman Walter B. Jones, JR. He said most in congress made no effort to read the bill but it was partly because
ReplyDeleteit was nearly impossible to read it. Congressmen and Senators were "allowed" to look at it. They had to go to a special room, present credentials, be checked for cameras and recording devices and even pens and paper. Then they were allowed to
go in where the document sat on a table. They had some short period of time, might have been as long as 90 min., to read the bill that runs into the hundreds of pages.
He tried to remember as much of it as he could but given the circumstances that wasn't much.
Apparently if the bill goes into effect as originally written any (ANY) citizen of a country that is signatory to the trade agreement will be able to come to the US and work without any restrictions. The effect is to throw the borders wide open as is the case in the European Union now. I'm not sure if what I say in this last paragraph came from Jones or something else I heard on the subject. I know I heard it. I don't want to improperly credit congressman Jones for something he might not have said.
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(ANY) citizen of a country that is signatory to the trade agreement will be able to come to the US and work without any restrictions.
DeleteAbsolutely insane.
Look up Rubio in the dictionary and you will see a picture of a RINO.
ReplyDeleteRubio has always been a RINO...the poor bastards in the tea party that organized and voted for him just got taken for fools.
Sort of like how ol justice Kennedy was going to gay partues in his younger days in Sacramento and votes for gay marriage years later....Obama wasn't the only one not vetted.
Quest for power must be the worst disease in the world.
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