Given the anti-TPP presidential campaign rhetoric from the leading candidates of both major political parties this year, supporters of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade pact are concluding that their only chance of getting Congress to approve the TPP will be during the lame-duck session after the November elections. [Larry Greenley| April 27, 2016 |The New American] They…
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Updated: Massachusetts-based shoe maker New Balance and its congressional supporters on Wednesday (April 27) secured an initial win in their fight to ensure the Department of Defense (DOD) buys U.S.-made athletic shoes for military recruits, as legislation put forward by Rep. Niki Tsongas (D-MA) to force the Pentagon’s hand was included in an annual defense policy…
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WASHINGTON, D.C. (April 27, 2016) – The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) has become a divisive issue in the nation’s capital, and criticism intensified after 161 food, farm, faith and rural organizations sent a letter to Capitol Hill today, urging lawmakers to reject the trade pact. [National Farmers Union| April 27, 2016 |Food and Water Watch] “The…
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Do you care about the quality of your food and where it comes from? If you do, and you should, it is time to be concerned about the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement. [Marc Perrone and Roger Johnson| April 27, 2016 |The Colorado Statesman] The TPP, like other trade deals before it, is being sold as…
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While most agricultural groups and the Obama administration are touting the potential benefits of the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement, top ag Democrats in Congress remain skeptical about the pact. [Chris Clayton| April 27, 2016 |The Progressive Farmer] Rep. Collin Peterson, D-Minn., ranking member of the House Agriculture Committee, said TPP would fail if President Barack…
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President Obama expressed confidence that his Trans-Pacific Partnership deal will pass Congress after members survive their contentious primaries and the presidential nominees of both parties are sorted out. [Charlie Spiering| April 24, 2016 |Breitbart] “I think after the primary season is over the politics settle down a little bit in Congress, and we’ll be in a…
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Yep, all is fair in love and war and pushing trade agreements, and the Washington Post really really wants the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). So, when they asked Ivo Daalder and Richard Kagan to make the case for the TPP as part of a story about preserving American leadership in the world, the Post apparently gave the greenlight…
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Economic globalization is often presented as an inevitability, a wave of the future to which we must either adapt or get left behind. But it isn’t. How much globalization we get and what kind are a choice, a result of deliberate political decisions we have the power to make or not make. [Ian Fletcher| April…
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Tis the season of talk about tax reform. Every presidential election cycle, the candidates all propose some kind of tax reform. However, once the new president is elected, Congress does not do anything because tax reform becomes the “third rail” to special interests who lobby for or against reforms that would affect them. The last…
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Support for the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) deal has plummeted on both sides of the Atlantic. [Nick Hallet| April 21, 2016 |Breitbart] A similar fall happened in the United States, with 18 per cent supporting the deal now, compared to 53 per cent in 2014. However, knowledge of the deal remains low with…
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