For immediate release: Contact:Sara Haimowitz, Development DirectorCoalition for a Prosperous America[email protected]; 202 688 5145 CPA Analysis of Obama’s SOTU Request for Fast Track President Obama asked Congress for Fast Track trade authority in his State of the Union address last night. The Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA) advocates a new direction in trade policy…
We all know how NAFTA turned out for us (for most of us, anyway). We all know how opening up trade with China turned out. It’s right in front of our faces. Who hasn’t seen the boarded-up downtowns of closed-down “factory towns?” Who hasn’t felt the fear of hearing, “We’re moving your job to China”?…
There is bi-partisan opposition in Congress to Fast Track and a large movement of movements mobilized to stop it. [Reposted from Popular Resistance | Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers | January 18th, 2015] The corporate media is reporting that since the Republican leadership and President Obama support Fast Track trade authority, it is a done…
The following article features a comment by Michael Stumo, CEO of CPA [Reposted from Inside US Trade | David Thomas | January 8, 2015] The National Export Initiative’s (NEI) failure to double exports from 2009 levels by the end of this year is due to a number of factors, some outside the Obama administration’s control…
Representative Paul Ryan has set a January 27, 2015 Ways and Means Committee hearing with USTR Michael Froman on trade. Senator Orrin Hatch has set a Senate Finance Committee hearing on trade policy, featuring Michael Froman, on the same day. It is important for us to let the GOP rank and file know that they…
