Howard Richman is a CPA member and supporter. Tomorrow, the Senate will start voting on whether or not to give President Obama Fast-Track power (Trade Promotion Authority). As my father, son and I noted in a commentary last week (Fast Tracking America’s Economic Destruction), the Trans Pacific Partnership will give our treaty partners permission to…
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It seemed like a typical day for President Obama. He taped a TV interview on trade, hosted the champion NASCAR team on the South Lawn and met with the defense secretary in the Oval Office. [Reposted from The Washington Post | Steven Mufson | May 11, 2015] Not so typical was something that didn’t appear…
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CPA issued the following organizational statement today: Reports indicate that Senate leadership has today reached an agreement to proceed to debate bills regarding Fast Track trade authority, fixing foreign currency manipulation legislation and effective customs enforcement. The Coalition for a Prosperous America is determined to ensure that both Houses of Congress fully debate…
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The early morning headline on Wednesday morning, May 13, 2015 read “Senate deals stinging defeat to Obama trade agenda“. The initial perception is that Democrats broke rank with their own President and vociferously fought him on a measure that would ultimately lead to the passage of the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) and the…
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In the first quarter of 2015, in the sixth year of the historic Obama recovery, the U.S. economy grew by two-tenths of 1 percent. [Reposted from Creators.com | Pat Buchanan | May 12, 2015] And that probably sugarcoats it. For trade deficits subtract from the growth of GDP, and the U.S. trade deficit that just…
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The Senate refuse to invoke cloture on Fast Track today. They needed 60 votes to proceed to debating the bill on the floor. But they could only get 52. Below is an uncorrected transcript from C-SPAN (from closed captioning). You can get a flavor of the debate. ***** THE PRESIDING OFFICEROFFICER: THE SENATOR FROM COLORADO.…
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The centerpiece of President Barack Obama’s economic agenda faces a cliffhanger vote in the Senate on Tuesday, as Democratic leaders move to block his trade bill — leaving one powerful Oregon Democrat who may hold the key to the outcome squeezed between his party leaders and the White House. [Reposted from Politico | Burgess Everett…
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Congress is in an intense debate over trade bills that will shape the course of the US economy for decades. Much of this debate has been characterized as a fight over whether international trade itself creates or destroys American jobs. There is, however, another major concern — that modern “trade” agreements are often less about…
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Eight years ago, Charlie Rangel and I worked with our House Democratic colleagues to co-author what became known as the “May 10th Agreement” on labor and environmental standards in trade agreements. For the first time, fully enforceable labor and environmental standards would be placed into our trade agreements on equal footing with every other commercial…
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Greg Autry is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Entrepreneurship at the Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California. He serves as senior economist with the Coalition for a Prosperous America. You can find him on Facebook. [Reposted from the Huffington Post | Greg Autry | May 11, 2015] The White House claims that…
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