I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
I keep hearing that this is the battle, and losing it would be a huge blow from which it would be very tough, if not impossible, to recover.
For me, the long term goals are to preserve the Internet as a populist tool, take a stand against overzealous copyright enforcement, minimize further damage to the environment, and - this is bigger than me - promote the economic growth of the 99%. The TPP would hurt all of these things.
as long as the world doesn't end, there's going to be another battle to fight after every "last" battle
also, not all battles are legislative -- some are legal, some are implementational, some involve doing legwork to get information/data or spread information/data, and so on
The main weakness of the TPP is that international enforcement is a clusterfuck. Unfortunately, most of what that means is that China will just continue to pirate everything and nobody will do anything about it because our economy is still married to theirs. If someone like Laos sets a foot out of line, they'll get eaten alive.
The eight Democrats who saved the trade package were Reps. Earl Blumenauer (Ore.), Gerry Connolly (Va.), Jim Cooper (Tenn.), Henry Cuellar (Texas), John Delaney (Md.), Eddie Bernice Johnson (Texas), Ron Kind (Wis.) and Rick Larsen (Wash.).
Mr. Connolly('s staff) will be hearing a mouthful from me.
I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
>The House voted 302 to 126 to sink a measure to grant financial aid to displaced workers, fracturing hopes at the White House that Congress would grant Obama fast-track trade authority to complete an accord with 11 other Pacific Rim nations.
Yeah it looks like Wyden tried to load it with some safeguards at least. Unfortunately, he seems to have underestimated the rest of the legislature's eagerness to take his stuff out then pass the bad parts, because there are still enough Democrats to vote for it anyway.
I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
I got an email from Daily Kos telling me that Fast Track narrowly passed 219-211 but everything I can find says it didn't. The game of telephone is so weird
There have been multiple votes on different pieces of legislation and procedural votes on what to do with the legislation as well.
I was hearing on Friday morning about one of the things passing by a small margin, and commentators on the Diane Rehm Show were expecting a certain other thing to fail. By Friday evening, the news suggested that it had indeed failed.
Note that you can click these diagrams to see the district numbers for all these districts, and from that you can actually find out exactly how every single representative voted on these two votes.
Of course she "doesn't" support it. She has to win a Democratic primary season. I guarantee you, she'll start supporting it in the general, or, failing that, on January 20th
They're staying quiet, because obviously your JOB CREATOR overlords know how to make things work and won't ever fuck you over.
More like "your poor job creator friends are helping to the government write good policy so you can trust that this time the government won't fuck you over like it usually does".
Yeah, it takes several implicit (and wrong) assumptions to make this work out.
She's trying to act like this constitutes waffling about it and they're still hesitant about passing, but it's already past the point for changes. At this point, pushing it along is approval you moron.
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also, not all battles are legislative -- some are legal, some are implementational, some involve doing legwork to get information/data or spread information/data, and so on
The eight Democrats who saved the trade package were Reps. Earl
Blumenauer (Ore.), Gerry Connolly (Va.), Jim Cooper (Tenn.), Henry
Cuellar (Texas), John Delaney (Md.), Eddie Bernice Johnson (Texas), Ron
Kind (Wis.) and Rick Larsen (Wash.).
Mr. Connolly('s staff) will be hearing a mouthful from me.
(The other Jane)
Don't celebrate yet though
Edit "TAA was included in the Senate TPA bill because Wyden insisted on it as a condition of the floor vote" I take it back, yer alright.
I was hearing on Friday morning about one of the things passing by a small margin, and commentators on the Diane Rehm Show were expecting a certain other thing to fail. By Friday evening, the news suggested that it had indeed failed.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/06/16/1393516/-How-did-your-representative-vote-on-Obama-s-trade-bills
Note that you can click these diagrams to see the district numbers for all these districts, and from that you can actually find out exactly how every single representative voted on these two votes.
(The other Jane)
Yeah, it takes several implicit (and wrong) assumptions to make this work out.