Congress Should Not Reconsider Its Vote Against Obamatrade

2015-06-15

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. Last Friday, the House of Representatives narrowly approved so-called “fast-track authority.” This bill will allow President Obama to cut essentially any so-called “trade deal” he wants to, secure in the knowledge that the so-called co-equal branch of government known as Congress will surely give its approval. Before that vote, however, a large, bipartisan majority of House members rejected another bill that purports to protect Am...

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.

Last Friday, the House of Representatives narrowly approved so-called “fast-track authority.” This bill will allow President Obama to cut essentially any so-called “trade deal” he wants to, secure in the knowledge that the so-called co-equal branch of government known as Congress will surely give its approval.

Before that vote, however, a large, bipartisan majority of House members rejected another bill that purports to protect American workers against the damage many of them experience from so-called “free trade” deals.

Without this so-called Trade Adjustment Act, the massive, secret and sovereignty-sapping agreement with Pacific nations that Obama wants to blow through Congress may come a cropper. So legislators are apparently going to be asked shortly to reconsider their vote.

The American people would rightly call approving so-called “Obamatrade” that way a disastrous mistake.

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. Learn more at SecureFreedom.org.

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