Reuters – by KRISTA HUGHES AND DAVID LAWDER
U.S. lawmakers on Tuesday extended until late July a deadline for a second vote on legislation central to President Barack Obama’s Pacific Rim trade pact, giving supporters time to obtain more backing for it.
At the same time, further delays will squeeze the time frame for Obama to hammer out the 12-nation pact, a signature project that was dealt a major setback in the House of Representatives last week by the president’s own Democrats.
As expected after last week’s drama, the House voted 236 to 189 to extend until July 30 a deadline for a second vote on a federal program that supports workers hurt by trade. An initial vote on it failed on Friday, causing lawmakers to consider the option of cutting that program out of the trade bill altogether.
In that vote, many Democrats opposed the worker aid program as a way to block a companion measure to streamline the passage of trade deals through the U.S. Congress. Even though the second measure was approved, its progress was blocked by the failure of the worker aid program.
That threw plans for a swift completion of Obama’s Trans-Pacific Partnership, or TPP, into disarray, forcing him and Republican leaders, who also support the trade pact, to search for a new path ahead.
“We’re looking for a way forward and when we find one we will let you know,” House Speaker John Boehner, a Republican, told reporters before the vote.
Republican Senator John Thune said delays were not helping the TPP, which must get past Congress this year to avoid being bogged down in the U.S. 2016 presidential elections.
“The longer this hangs out there, the harder it becomes and the more it complicates passage of TPP,” Thune told reporters.
Democrats opposed the worker aid program because its approval would ease the passage of “fast-track,” which would allow lawmakers to set negotiating objectives for trade deals but restrict them to a yes-or-no vote on the final agreement. Many Democrats and their labor union allies fear that trade deals such as TPP will cause the loss of American jobs.
One possibility would be to drop the worker aid program and send to the Senate, which has already approved both measures, a bill containing only fast-track provisions.
Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch said he was open to any solution that would get the trade package done. “We’re ultimately going to get it through,” he said.
(Additional reporting by Richard Cowan and Alex Wilts; Editing by Kevin Drawbaugh and Steve Orlofsky)
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/06/16/us-usa-trade-idUSKBN0OW2FU20150616
Pigs yapping over who is going to screw AmeriKa more. Treaso. Buy more ammo. Liberty1775
More bs for the msm and the shoppers at walmart to think that these psycho’s give a rats behind about you.
It is a done deal.
Isn’t it funny how these bastards constantly have a vote on something that nobody but them wants over and over again until it gets passed, but whenever it’s something we want to have passed and it doesn’t get passed then that’s the end of it and you never hear of it again.
Don’t you just love the bullshit.
How many times can we vote over and over again until the illegals get deported or how many times can we vote over and over again until Barry and his cohorts get arrested for treason or how many times can we vote over and over again to get rid of DHS, TSA and every other unconstitutional agency or how many times can we vote over and over again to stop giving foreign aid to other countries, especially Israel?
Answer: ZERO!
So how many more times can they have a vote on something so unconstitutional as the TPP before they give up on it?
Answer: As many as it takes.
They’ll keep voting on this thing until Christmas and New Year if they have to. They’re treasonous psychopaths working for the elites agenda.
“Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch said he was open to any solution that would get the trade package done. “We’re ultimately going to get it through,” he said.”
And “we’re ultimately going to” come for your ass and hang your neck with American made hemp rope, you treasonous piece of shit!
All you need to have free trade is leave the state out of it and honor contracts. But if competition was fair corporations and banks would occasionally go broke and consumers wouldn’t spend a dime of their wealth to support a war or a Lincoln memorial or a bridge to nowhere that we will eventually bomb so we can build another one. The anti- trust laws didn’t outlaw monopolies. They nurtured them. The new deal didn’t provide for social independence. It destroyed it. Any free trade bill is anti-trade just like any peace keeping mission leads to war. Deception is the key and our minds are the lock.