"... blocking consideration of legislation granting their own president accelerated power to complete a major trade accord with Asia."The Senate voted 52-45 on a procedural motion to begin debating the bill to give the president �trade promotion authority,� eight votes short of the 60 needed to proceed. Republicans and pro-trade Democrats said they would try to negotiate a trade package that could clear that threshold.
The link goes to the NYT, where the top-rated comment is:
Why the rush to fast track this? Why can't we, the voters, see what's in this agreement? Why are the details secret? A full transparent discussion of the whole thing should be conducted before signing on to such legislation. Who will make money and who will lose money? Americans deserve to know what exactly is in this trade deal. It is not as though we don't have good reason to be suspicious about this.
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