House Speaker Paul Ryan said Tuesday that because of a handful of problems with the pact that the Obama administration has yet to fix, he doesn’t expect a vote to come up this year. [Megan Cassella July 27, 2016 |Politico] “I think the administration screwed up negotiating it,” Ryan said at a luncheon in Milwaukee, according to…
Michele Nash-Hoff Michele Nash-Hoff is president of Electro Fab Sales and chair of the California Chapter of the Coalition for a Prosperous America. [Michele Nash-Hoff| July 25, 2016 |San Diego Business Journal] The proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership will cause the same economic havoc as the North American Free Trade Agreement. The boost to the San Diego…
Here, in a nutshell, is the dilemma of putting Pence on the ticket: His duties as VP require him to agree with Trump but he was named VP in the first place because he doesn’t always agree with Trump. He was a “unity” pick, designed to show wary conservatives that Trump’s GOP still has a place for their…
These are interesting times. Sen. Ted Cruz refused to endorse Donald Trump in the GOP convention. Sen. Bernie Sanders did endorse Hillary Clinton but his supporters tanked Debbie Wasserman Schultz and protested speakers at the Democratic convention. [Michael Stumo| July 27, 2016 |The Hill] Trump has promoted a nationalist message of “America First” in trade and foreign relations, opposing or questioning the TPP,…
Republican White House nominee Donald Trump has suggested that the United States could pull out of the World Trade Organization if he is elected president. [PTI| July 25, 2016 |News Nation] The New York billionaire made the comments yesterday during a wide-ranging interview with NBC television’s “Meet the Press,” his first since being crowned as his party’s…
