ACTION ITEM.. Last chance to tell your Representative NO on the TPP/TPA

[FCTP]

CREDIT:  NumbersUSA

The House of Representatives will be voting on the Obama Trade deal tomorrow. This is our last chance to stop the fast-track authority that would allow Obama to easily make changes to US immigration in the Trans Pacific Partnership.
The link below includes everything you need to make waves on Twitter and Facebook. You will see a list of every GOP Member of the House along with their Twitter handle and social media pages. 
Please click the name of the Representative to bring up a pre-written tweet. We've done the work for you to send your tweet with just one click.

Please spread the word about this page so we can amplify our impact on social media today.
https://www.numbersusa.com/pages/house-tpa-social-media-page

Message from Karen Jorach:

The House missed an opportunity to take down TPA in voting for the Rule this afternoon that sets it up for a vote tomorrow. The vote was close, 217-212.

Only 34 Republicans voted against the bill. We can thank Posey, Yoho and Webster.

Tomorrow will be a nail biter and momentum is going against TPA passage but calls/emails welcome, especially to DeSantis, Miller, Rooney, Nugent and Ross.

 Rep. Ron DeSantis,  Phone [phone] or [phone]

Thomas Rooney,  Phone: [phone]

Richard Nugent,  phone: [phone]

Jeff Miller,  Phone: [phone]

 Denise Ross, Phone: [phone]

Thank you for taking the time to take action on this issue

God Bless You And God Bless Our America.

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― Theodore Roosevelt

 

[Franklin W.]

obamacare all over again.....

obama will spend the weekend sweetening the deal for democrats, uping the bribes, handing out billions of dollars in State specific "pork", meeting pelosi's price along with Union incentives and reimbursements....

The SECRET bill will be passed Tuesday.

Get a clue people......your government is just not that into you......

The only question left is.  Is there any point, line or situation that this government can cross that would sufficiently arouse the American people to take whatever steps necessary to stop this tyrant government's unlawful, unconstitutional, unethical actions against American citizens and the lawful system of government as laid out in America's Constitution?

I have come to personally believe that if the question is answered honestly without any bravado or false sense of American pride the answer would be NO.

obama has called the American people's bluff....and they fell apart like a paper hat in the rain. 

[Shavager]

I'm telling ya' I tried FIVE times to get through Paul Ryan's office--would NOT take any calls, would NOT take any messages left on phone--he was SWAMPED with protest calls and I can hear'em now:  Grow some longer hair, put on some lipstick and we'll call you Nancy(Pelosi-boy) Ryan. Couldn't get through to him but I did get messages left to LIVE bodies at Nugent, Pelosi, and half dozen others as well as several Republicans.  My basic message was: as a registered Democrat for 40+ YEARS, I voted Republican on every race on my ballot in November to STOP Obama policies, NOT watch Republicans STAB ME in the back by giving in to Obama. Then I specified my opposition to the TPP bill over immigration powers expansion to Obama, the damage to American jobs and COST to be taken from Medicare ($700 million) to to retrain workers, the undermining of our sovereignty by giving foreign countries authority over our financial and environmental protections and basically stated the TPP benefits 3 entities: BIG corporations who wanted it, the politicians that were paid off with big bucks to pass it and Obama, and IF Obama was for it, THEN IT HAD TO BE BAD FOR AMERICA!

[FCTP]

Update:
TAA Fails - TPA Passes
June 12, 2015
Today, the House of Representatives considered two controversial trade related bills, Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) and Trade Promotion Authority (TPA), that would empower President Obama to finish massive "free trade" agreements, namely the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).
The complicated vote series left the fate of the package up in the air. First came the vote for Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA). This ineffective and wasteful government program supposedly helps workers who lose their jobs due to foreign trade; in reality, it's a bribe to garner Democrat support for trade.
Most Democrats voted against TAA in an effort to kill the whole trade package, and most Republicans opposed TAA as useless government spending. That left 86 Republicans who voted yes, either in support of more government spending or out of total commitment to moving President Obama's top current legislative priority, TPA.
The following Representatives should hear your disapproval. Please call or tweet them this weekend:

Aderholt
Barletta
Barr
Barton
Benishek
Bishop (MI)
Blum
Bost
Boustany
Brady (TX)
Brooks (IN)
Calvert
Coffman
Cole
Comstock
Costello (PA)
Crenshaw
Curbelo (FL) Davis, Rodney
Dent
Dold
Donovan
Emmer (MN)
Fitzpatrick
Fortenberry
Frelinghuysen
Graves (MO)
Grothman
Guinta
Guthrie
Hanna
Herrera Beutler
Huizenga (MI)
Hurt (VA)
Issa
Johnson (OH) Jolly
Katko
Kelly (PA)
King (NY)
Kinzinger (IL)
Kline
Luetkemeyer
Marino
McCarthy
McHenry
McKinley
McMorris Rodgers
Meehan
Messer
Mica
Miller (MI)
Moolenaar
Murphy (PA) Nunes
Paulsen
Pitts
Reed
Reichert
Rigell
Rogers (AL)
Rogers (KY)
Rokita
Roskam
Royce
Ryan (WI)
Scalise
Shimkus
Shuster
Simpson
Stefanik
Stivers Thompson (PA)
Thornberry
Tiberi
Trott
Turner
Upton
Valadao
Wagner
Walberg
Walden
Walters, Mimi
Whitfield
Wilson (SC)
Young (IA)
The TAA vote failed, but the House moved onto the second part of the package, Trade Promotion Authority (TPA). TPA empowers President Obama to make his trade deals with foreign countries and takes away Congress's ability to amend any agreement. Only 54 Republicans voted NO. Please call and thank them for their brave vote:
Aderholt
Amash
Brat
Bridenstine
Brooks (AL)
Buck
Burgess
Clawson (FL)
Collins (GA)
Collins (NY)
Cook Donovan
Duncan (SC)
Duncan (TN)
Farenthold
Fleming
Garrett
Gibson
Gohmert
Gosar
Griffith
Harris Hunter
Jenkins (WV)
Jolly
Jones
Jordan
Joyce
Katko
Labrador
LoBiondo
Lummis
MacArthur Massie
McKinley
Meadows
Mooney (WV)
Mulvaney
Nugent
Palmer
Pearce
Perry
Poliquin
Posey Rohrabacher
Rothfus
Russell
Smith (NJ)
Webster (FL)
Westmoreland
Wittman
Yoho
Young (AK)
Zeldin

Please note that while they voted NO on TPA, the following Representatives voted YES on TAA: Aderholt, Donovan, McKinley, Jolly, and Katko.
Although the failure of TAA today delays the process, Speaker Boehner has the power to bring TAA back to the floor next week. The outcome of that vote will determine the fate of this trade package.
Please keep up the pressure! Contact your Representative and urge him or her to vote NO on TAA when it comes back next week.

Capitol Switchboard [phone]

[Shavager]

A vote to get it OUT of the Rules Committee is NOT a vote for passage, I'm hoping so many organizations protesting this 'trade bill' and 'fast track' get enough attention to stop it tomorrow. When TEA party and Conservative organizations are opposing along with the ACLU, MoveOn.org and unions--SOMETHING has to be wrong with it.  They've proposed taking $700 MILLION from Medicare to 'train' workers who LOSE jobs under this legislation, it gives Obama more leeway on ILLEGAL immigration and gives trade partners MORE power over our own corporations and businesses IN OUR COURTS and it's being KEPT SECRET--every American should stand up and DEMAND to know what's going on--IT IS OUR RIGHT TO KNOW!   This bill does ONE thing--REWARDS politicians and corporations who BRIBED those politicians to pass it.

[FCTP]

Just found this.. Here are the 34 that voted NO on the TPP/TPA getting out of the Rules Committee

The 34 Republicans who voted against the House trade rule

The 34 Republicans who voted against the House trade rule

[FCTP]

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/06/11/jeff-sessions-is...
JEFF SESSIONS ISSUES FINAL ‘CRITICAL ALERT’: OBAMATRADE JUST LIKE AMNESTY, OBAMACARE

Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL)
, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee’s subcommittee on Immigration and the National Interest, is issuing one final clarion call against Obamatrade as the House readies to vote on the matter on Friday.
Sessions’ final “critical alert,” one of several he’s issued throughout the Obamatrade process, shows House Ways and Means Committee chairman has been engaged in deception as he attempts to guide Obamatrade’s passage through the House.
“Promoters of fast-track executive authority have relied on semantic obfuscation in an effort to deny the obvious: the President’s top priority is obtaining fast-track authority because he knows it will expand his powers and allow him to cement his legacy through the formation of a new political and economic union,” Sessions said.
If, as promoters amazingly suggest, the President had more powers without fast-track, he would veto it. The authority granted in “Trade Promotion Authority” is authority transferred from Congress to the Executive and, ultimately, to international bureaucrats. The entire purpose of fast-track is for Congress to surrender its power to the Executive for six years. Legislative concessions include: control over the content of legislation, the power to fully consider that legislation on the floor, the power to keep debate open until Senate cloture is invoked, and the constitutional requirement that treaties receive a two-thirds vote. Legislation cannot even be amended.
It’s unclear what will happen when it does come up for a vote on Friday in the House, but one thing is absolutely certain: Pass or fail, Ryan’s credibility on the right is shot. What’s more, there’s likely to be a conservative grassroots rebellion against establishment Republicans in Washington that may dwarf the one Obamacare caused back in 2010.
Without granting Obama fast-track authority, Sessions notes that Congress remains in charge of trade policy and negotiations. Congress would keep the ability to amend trade deals and the Senate would still have power to filibuster against them—but that’s only if the House shoots down TPA on Friday. If the House passes TPA, there’s no telling what President Obama might do with the new power Congress would be ceding to him.
“By contrast, without fast-track, Congress retains all of its legislative powers, individual members retain all of their procedural tools, and every single line, jot, and tittle of trade text is publicly available before any congressional action is taken,” Sessions said.
Another obfuscation is the suggestion that TPP doesn’t yet exist. To the contrary, it has been under negotiation for six years and lawmakers can enter a closed-door, walled-off chamber to review it. A vote for fast-track is a vote to authorize the President to ink the secret deal contained in these pages—to affix his name on the Union and to therefore enter the United States into it.
“The so-called negotiating objectives in the fast-track bill are merely for show,” Nucor Steel chairman emeritus Dan DiMicco says, according to Sessions. “The President can and does sign the agreement before Congress views or votes on it.”
Sessions then wrote how fast-track authority is “the action that empowers the President to put America’s name on the deal sitting in that walled-off room—before a page of it has been shared with the public.”
From there, Sessions went straight after Ryan.
In a Ways and Means document on the new Pacific Union being formed by Obama, the Committee hints at some of this union’s powers: ‘if a proposed change to a trade agreement is contemplated [by the TPP Commission] that would require a change in U.S. law, all of TPA’s congressional notification, consultation, and transparency requirements would apply. In other words, Ways and Means is intimating that this new secret Pacific Union would function like a third house of Congress, with legislative primacy, sending changes to the House and Senate under fast-track procedures (receiving less legislative procedure than, for instance, Post Office reform).
Moreover, this legislative fast-track, Ways and Means implies, is limited to that which requires a ‘change in U.S. law’—meaning if this President (or the next) argues it is simply an executive action, not a legal action, the Executive could have a free hand to implement the Commission’s decrees without Congress. This is not merely a loophole; this is purposeful delegation of congressional authority to the Executive and to an international body. The fast-tracked implementing legislation would have the ability to make these delegations binding as a matter of law.
Sessions noted too how both on the House and Senate sides, amendments that would have specified “Congress retains exclusive legislative authority, and to actively prohibit foreign worker increases” were blocked by Obamatrade promoters. Some, including , have fallen victim to a phony solution backed by Ryan that wouldn’t fix the problem because it would be an amendment to future legislation that has no guarantees of ever becoming law.
“Fast-track supporters have tried to temper concerns about the formation of this transnational union, and the subsequent Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) and Trade in Services Agreement (TiSA) that would also be pre-approved through fast-track, by adding additional “negotiating objectives” via a separate customs bill,” Sessions said.
The negotiating objectives are not binding, are not meaningfully enforceable, and no individual lawmaker can strike any provision which violates them. Fast-track keeps what congressional authority is left in the hands of the revenues and Rules committees. Under the Ways and Means ‘solution,’ TPP, TTIP, and TiSA could establish broad goals for labor mobility (allowing Ways and Means to say the negotiating objectives about ‘requiring’ or ‘obligating’ certain changes has not been violated) and the President would then implement those changes through executive action, or change our laws through fast-track.
Sessions noted next how Ryan’s so-called “negotiating objectives” are useless.
“Negotiating objectives are, by design, not explicit or realistically enforceable,” Sessions said.
They include such bromides as saying it must be the goal of the White House “to ensure that trade agreements reflect and facilitate the increasingly interrelated, multi-sectoral nature of trade and investment activity,” and “to recognize the growing significance of the Internet as a trading platform in international commerce.” It stretches the outer bounds of logic to contend that a President who happily disregards the Constitution will be bound to obey a series of broad “negotiating objectives”—especially when those objectives come with a promised surrender of congressional power.
Sessions then cited DiMicco again, and argued that this Obamatrade deal is not “free trade.”
Finally, it must be observed that this is not a “free trade” deal. It is, as Daniel DiMicco explained, a ‘unilateral trade disarmament’ and ‘the enablement of foreign mercantilism,’ whereby we open our markets to new foreign imports and they keep their non-tariff barriers that close their markets to ours. President Obama refuses to answer questions about the impact on unemployment, wage stagnation, and trade deficits. He refuses because the answer is all three will get worse. For instance, a study published in the Wall Street Journal showed that—due to barriers to U.S. auto exports—the deal would increase foreign transportation imports over our exports by nearly four-fold.
Sessions closed his statement by arguing that this deal would further erode American sovereignty and economic strength worldwide, and that’s why establishment Republicans in Washington are trying so hard to rush it through to final passage before Americans know what’s in it. He noted too that this is just like Obamacare and the Senate’s “Gang of Eight” amnesty bill all over again.
Americans have seen their sovereignty, economic position, and political power erode. They have seen that power transferred to an elite set who dream of writing rules in foreign capitals, unburdened by the concerns of the ordinary citizen. To read the trade agreement is to know that, if Congress adopts the fast-track, it will have preapproved a vast delegation of sovereign authority to an international union, with growing powers over the lives of ordinary Americans. Like the Gang of Eight, like Obamacare, and so much else—the goal is to get it approved before the American people know what’s in it.
Critical Alert – Fast-Track Would Pre-Approve Formation Of Sweeping Transnational Union (2)

[Carole McManus]

Thanks for getting out this PUSH for all of us to respond to tomorrow!!! 

[Shavager]

Be wearing out my pore ole' Tracfone in the morning, again!  Paul Ryan just spoke out and said WE can see the text of the bill AFTER they pass it--IS HE REALLY KIDDING?  He sounds as idiotic as Nancy Pelosi saying "We have to pass it so you can see what's in it."--on the ObamaCare bill and WE ALL KNOW how that went!