The candidate who declared the Trans-Pacific Partnership to be one of three essential “pillars” of a Rubio Presidency—is now taking issue with a Wall Street Journal news report that lists Rubio as supporting the unpopular Obamatrade pact he voted to fast-track. [Reposted from Breitbart | Julia Hahn | November 8, 2015] The Wall Street Journal…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 11, 2015 Contact: Paola Masman, Media Director 202-688-5145, [email protected] Washington, DC ~ The Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA) released today “A Competitiveness Strategy for the United States – America at a Crossroads.” “Across the USA, localities and states employ plans to attract jobs,” said Brian O’Shaughnessy, CPA Chief Co-Chair…
The re-enserfment of Western peoples is taking place on several levels. One about which I have been writing for more than a decade comes from the offshoring of jobs. Americans, for example, have a shrinking participation in the production of the goods and services that are marketed to them. [Reposted from Paul Craig Roberts | …
HAMBURG—Few places have a longer affinity for free trade than this German city, home to one of Europe’s busiest ports [Reposted from the Wall Street Journal | Daniel Michaels | November 8, 2015] The city’s left-leaning government overruled environmentalists in 2012 and approved deepening the Elbe River for bigger container ships. License plates boast of…
Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-UT) on Friday (Nov. 6) expressed doubt that Congress will take up legislation to implement the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) during the Obama administration and argued that a future Republican administration would negotiate a better deal on intellectual property protections for drugs. November 6, 2015 | Inside U.S. Trade…
Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Immigration and the National Interest, is calling for the immediate destruction of the 5,554-page Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trans-global trade deal introduced on Thursday. [ by Matthew Boyle | November 5, 2015 | Breitbart ] “The text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership runs…
Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders are railing against the Trans-Pacific Partnership in the Democratic primary. On the right, GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump is ripping the trade deal as a “disaster” negotiated by “incompetent people.” [Reposted from Politico | Seung Min Kim | November 9, 2015] President Barack Obama’s herculean task of shepherding the landmark…
Many in Congress have been concerned about the effect of currency manipulation on our country’s ability to sell things to the world. They demanded that the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) outlaw the practice. The administration promised that the TPP and accompanying side agreements would do that. [Reposted from Campaign for America’s Future | Dave Johnson | …
BEIJING — China, the world’s leading emitter of greenhouse gases from coal, has been burning up to 17 percent more coal a year than the government previously disclosed, according to newly released data. The finding could complicate the already difficult efforts to limit global warming. [ by Chris Buckley | November 3, 2015 |…
The House Republican Steering Committee on Wednesday (Nov. 4) voted to make Rep. Kevin Brady (R-TX) the new chairman of the Ways & Mean Committee, roughly a year after he failed to grab that spot in a contest with now Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI). November 6, 2015 | Inside U.S. Trade Brady’s selection will…
