Ron Wyden Voted Against The TPA- He Co-authored It. Thank you Senate Dems

[cali]

Now the pro tpp dems and the repubs go back to the drawing board. The vote was a very lopsided 52-45, with repukes voting for it and all but one dem voting against it. McConnell voted against it so that he could bring it up again. It was a procedural vote that blocked debate.


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But the vote Tuesday presented Mr. Obama what might be a no-win situation. He may have to accept trade enforcement provisions he does not want in order to propel the trade legislation through the Senate, but those same provisions might doom the Pacific trade negotiations that legislation is supposed to lift.

That is especially true for a measure demanding a crackdown on currency manipulation, which is strongly opposed by Japan and Malaysia, two of the 12 nations trying to complete the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the largest trade accord in a generation.

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Tuesday’s vote scrambled partisan alliances that have dominated Congress in the Obama era. Democrats, opposing their own president, united around demands that trade promotion authority be paired with a series of other measures, not only to crack down on currency manipulation, but to assist workers displaced by globalization, tighten child labor law and fortify the government’s response to unfair trade practices.

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The way forward is likely to be a negotiated package of trade-enforcement amendments that would be guaranteed a vote, Republican leadership aides said. Before talks collapsed Tuesday morning, talks on that amendment had begun, with Senator Chuck Schumer, Democrat of New York, offering to drop the currency measure in exchange for a promised vote later this Congress.

But Mr. Hatch, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, said it was not at all clear the pro-trade forces could resurrect the legislation.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/13/business/senate-vote-obama-fast-track-trade-deal.html

[JaneyVee]

1. Apparently the no vote were due to GOP shenanigans:

http://www.shaheen.senate.gov/news/press/release/?id=746a84e3-7ca1-49a5-ae58-25c5d991706c

[cali]

2. The vast majority of Senate dems are firmly against it

because they oppose the TPP. President Obama desperately wanted a vote on this version of the TPA. This was not about GOP shenanigans.

[fredamae]

3. Yep. Sen Wyden Did Not Vote NO For Us!

“But sources said Wyden had made it clear in a closed-door Democratic meeting last Thursday that he would not vote to advance the Tuesday procedural motion unless Republicans promise they would also move forward with two other trade measures: a customs enforcement bill and the African Growth and Opportunity Act. Otherwise, he would vote no.”
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/05/ron-wyden-trade-vote-117839.html#ixzz3ZyfhjILN