REJECT 'FAST TRACK' SELLOUT VOTE
OBAMA'S TPA/TPP BETRAY AMERICA
OBAMA'S TPA/TPP BETRAY AMERICA
URGENT UPDATE: Senator Jeff Sessions could face 5 YEARS IN PRISON for telling America what is really in the Trans Pacific Trade Agreement.
ONLY YOUR SHOUTS on Capitol Hill can stop this BETRAYAL of America by Congress!
The rot in Washington is SO DEEP, Obama's US Trade Representative's
office has threatened 5 year prison terms for anyone who makes the
contents of TPP public – including Senator Jeff Sessions or any other
Congressman who dares tell the truth about Obama's global governance
plans.Fortunately, there are still SOME public servants with integrity in Washington, namely Senator Sessions! While John Boehner and Paul Ryan keep trying to sell Pelosi's old LIE that 'we have to pass it to find out what's in it,” Senator Sessions is shouting the truth to anyone who will listen – Fast Track puts America under a new global government.
We need YOUR help supporting this bold stand for REJECTING Fast Track/TPP by Sen. Sessions!
In a recently released open letter, Senator Jeff Sessions, (R-AL) risked prosecution and a 5 year prison sentence for revealing the contents of the Trans Pacific Trade Agreement that Fast Track enables. Session writes:
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TPP that creates a new transnational governance structure known
as the Trans-Pacific Partnership Commission. The details of this new
governance commission are extremely broad and have the earmarks of a
nascent European Union, with many similarities.' Reviewing the secret text, plus the secret guidance document that accompanies it, reveals that this new transnational commission – chartered with a 'Living Agreement' clause – would have the authority to amend the agreement after its adoption, to add new members, and to issue regulations impacting labor, immigration, environmental, and commercial policy. In effect, to adopt Fast Track is to agree to remove the Constitutional protections against the creation of global governance structures before those structures are even made public |
This weekend House Speaker John Boehner announced he intends to hold a vote on Fast Track TPA as soon as this Thursday. When asked if even he has read the Trans Pacific Trade Agreement that TPA is meant to pass, Boehner's staff refused to answer, effectively indicating that even Boehner himself has not read the damning anti-free trade, globalizing trade agreement he is trying to help Obama finalize.
If you thought things couldn't get worse than ObamaCare, you were wrong. Barack Obama had far, far bigger plans to destroy America. Put simply, if we intend to have even one shred of freedom left for our children, we must raise the roof and demand Congress vote NO on Fast Track Trade Promotion Authority. Our children's future literally depends on it.
It is critically important that everyone understand exactly what is at stake.Fast Track Trade Promotion Authority, (TPA), is a piece of legislation that transfers Constitutional negotiation powers from Congress to the President. The President may use this power to negotiate any international trade agreement with any partner the President chooses over the next few years, (including Iran and Cuba), and to negotiate the agreements in any way the President sees fit.
Under TPA, Congress agrees to give up in advance the ability to change any existing or future trade agreement, even before Congress has actually read agreements. Instead, TPA requests the President consider 150 'negotiating objectives' on which Congress would like the President to 'make progress'.
The President is not required to actually accomplish any of these objectives and may ignore those requests at will. In fact, the 2015 TPA bill makes clear that failure to achieve or make progress on any of the negotiating objectives shall not be cause for Congress to revoke trade authority from the President. Worst of all, by giving up its ability to amend or change any related laws and regulations the President and the World Trade Organization decide to impose on the United States; Congress is also transferring its' law making powers to world courts.
PROBLEM 1: GIVING CONGRESS' POWER TO OBAMA
TPA proponents like Rep. Paul Ryan and Sen. Marco Rubio claim that the ONLY way Congress can have a say in upcoming trade agreements is by using TPA. But either the Congressmen are deeply confused about these powers of the Constitution…or they think you are. Article 1, Section 8, Clause 3 of the United States Constitution clearly states that Congress shall have the power "To regulate commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes." So in essence, TPA proponents are trying to convince you that they have to give away their power in order to have power.
PROBLEM 2: TPA HAS NO TEETH
TPA 2015 lays out 150 "negotiating objectives" and requests that the Administration "make progress" in these areas. TPA does NOT contain a single MANDATE. In fact, TPA 2015 clearly states the failure to achieve a negotiating objective shall not be considered a reason to revoke TPA from the President. In other words, those 150 'negotiating objectives' are merely suggestions Congress is hoping Obama will pretty please follow, as if suddenly Obama will consent to the will of Congress instead of using his phone and pen to bypass them at every opportunity.
PROBLEM 3: TPA PREVENTS CONGRESS FROM FIXING BAD TRADE DEALS:Once the President decides he is done negotiating a deal, he must bring it before Congress for a vote. However, TPA 2015 prevents Congress from changing even a single word of the deal; Congress cannot made amendments and Congressional debate is severely limited. In other words, Obama gets to throw a 'take it or leave it' trade deal on the floor of Congress, forcing OUR Representatives to vote for it or be accused of being AGAINST free-trade.
PROBLEM 4: GIVING CONGRESS' POWER TO INTERNATIONAL COURTS
TPA forces Congress to give up its ability to amend or change any trade agreement related laws and regulations the President and the World Trade Organization decide to impose on the United States. Thus, Congress is transferring its law making powers to world courts. This is BLATANTLY unconstitutional!
A. 'IMPLEMENTING LEGISLATION'PROBLEM 5: POTUS IS ALREADY REFUSING CONGRESSIONAL TPA 'OBJECTIVES'
TPA does not only apply to the trade agreements, but also to whatever legislation the President and the World Trade Organization Tribunals feel need to be implemented in order to comply with trade agreement terms. In other words, the President and the WTO get to decide which US laws and regulations need to be changed to 'harmonize', (i.e. change), our laws to match international law. Under TPA, Congress cannot amend or change a single word in this President's implementing legislation. Furthermore, if Congress votes down the President's 'implementing legislation' after the trade deal is finalized; the WTO tribunals will fine the United States and apply trade sanctions until all applicable US laws have been changed to match the international laws.
B. REGULATION HARMONIZATION
In addition to 'Implementing Legislation', the President also gets to enact new regulations through Executive Branch Agencies, in order to 'harmonize' US regulations with International regulations. Congress does not get to vote on Executive Branch Regulations; the President simply declares them and enforces them. As we have seen through court rulings, Executive Branch regulations are de facto laws that must be followed by not only the Federal government, but also every state and every American. As with the 'implementing legislation' above, should Congress try to remove the regulations, the World Trade Organization tribunals will fine the United States and apply sanctions against the US for failure to comply with the trade agreement.
As Fast Track legislation was being finalized, certain Congressmen attempted to provide protections to vital US interests, and give those protections enforcement teeth in TPA. Specific language was offered that could have ensured American interests and sovereignty, yet the Administration threatened to veto any bill that held them accountable; clearly demonstrating the Administration's willingness to disobey Congress. Let's take a look at the Amendments offered, but refused by the Administration and the complicit, conciliating posture of Congressional Leadership:
A. Docking Agreement – that Congress must approve any new trade partner countries added to the agreement. DENIED.
B. Secrecy – to force the administration to make the full text of the Trans Pacific Trade Agreement immediately available to the public. DENIED.
C. Immigration – to ensure that no trade agreement changes US Immigration Laws or practices. DENIED.
D. ISDS World Court Tribunals – to ensure that World Courts do not over rule US law. DENIED.
E. Currency Manipulation – to ensure the 8 TPP trading partners known as 'worst offender' currency manipulators are prevented from future currency manipulation. DENIED.
F. Human Rights/Slavery/Sex Trafficking – to ensure the US does not give favored trade status to countries the State Department has identified as human rights/slavery/sex trafficking nations. DENIED.
PROBLEM 6: LIVING AGREEMENT
The Obama Administration freely
admits that the TPP is a 'living agreement' modeled after WTO standards.
Living Agreement means the agreement can be changed even after it is
signed and Congress will have absolutely no say in the changes. You see,
by passing the trade agreement, Congress agrees in advance to waive their right to object to any future changes to the trade agreements, thereby committing the United States to international laws that haven't even been written yet!
Two things can change an agreement after it is signed:1. WTO Tribunal Rulings: As has already happened under previous trade agreements, the WTO Tribunals can and do add provisions to trade agreements after signing, and all signing countries must obey those new provisions.PROBLEM 7: THE WORST NEGOTIATOR IN HISTORY
2. Partner Agreement: Under WTO rules, if 2/3 of the trade partners agree to add a new partner, (Iran perhaps?), or to add new provisions to the agreement, then all partners must obey. It does not matter if Congress objects or is not a part of the 2/3 who wanted the change, by agreeing to the 'living agreement' aspect in advance, Congress has already agreed to obey future international changes, no matter what those changes might be.
TPA's
immediate intent is to speed passage of the Trans Pacific Trade
Agreement, (TPP), and the Trans-Atlantic Trade Agreement, (TTIP). These
two trade agreements are the largest trade agreements in history,
accounting for 60% of global GDP. These two trade agreements essentially
carve the globe in half, and create blanket trade agreements that cover
each hemisphere. Agreements of such magnitude must be well negotiated;
yet, President Obama's complete and utter lack of negotiating skills has
been proven time and again. Consider:- President Barack Obama freed 5 violent jihadis for 1 Army deserter.
- President Barack Obama negotiated a trade deal with South Korea which he claimed they would never violate, yet they have repeatedly broken the deal.
- President Barack Obama negotiated the North Korea nuclear deal, which he swore would prevent North Korea from obtaining nuclear weapons. North Korea now owns several Intercontinental Ballistic nukes.
- President Barack Obama negotiated a nuclear deal with Iran, which resulted in Iran seizing US ships and still retaining nuclear capability.
Can
we really trust the most malicious negotiator in US history to
negotiate the largest trade agreements in US history? The answer for any
thinking American is NO.
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