Boehner Republicans Heading for Big Mistake by Phyllis Schlafly September 18, 2013
What in the world is the matter with Boehner Republicans in the U.S. House? Haven’t they had enough of Obama exceeding his presidential authority, disobeying the Constitution by refusing to “take care that the laws be faithfully executed,” and issuing executive regulations to “legislate” what Congress refuses to pass, such as the Dream Act?
We’ve never had a president who so arrogantly grabs and uses such unlawful power. He repeatedly granted waivers or exceptions or delays to groups from laws that gave the president no such authority, such as welfare reform and ObamaCare.
The latest example of Speaker John Boehner’s coziness with Barack Obama is the current plan to give the President a grant of tremendous power, not authorized in the Constitution, called Fast Track. The Constitution gives Congress exclusive authority “to regulate commerce with foreign nations,” but Fast Track would give the president power to sign trade agreements before Congress has an opportunity to vote on them and then unilaterally write legislation making those agreements U.S. federal law.
Fast Track allows the president to send these executive-written bills directly to the House under rules that limit debate, forbid all amendments, and require a vote within a preset time period. In other words, the House cedes to the president its constitutional power to write legislation that regulates commerce with foreign nations . . . Now in the fast lane is a new trade treaty called the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) with eleven countries: Mexico, Canada, Japan, Vietnam, Singapore, Malaysia, Brunei, Australia, New Zealand, Peru and Chile.
All trade treaties come encrusted with glowing predictions of creating new jobs for Americans, and those promises always turn out to be false. Like the old saying, Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me, and it is shame on the Boehner . . . According to Public Citizen’s Global Trade watch, 24 of the 29 chapters of TPP are not really about trade, but rewrite some of our domestic policies. These chapters include provisions about the environment, health, food safety, and internet freedom protections, plus giving corporations expanded privileges over federal, state and local governments. . . ."
I don't see how this will happen. It is unconstitutional. It is unclear how it will be enforced. What stops the House from just saying that they don't want to do it anymore if Zero does something unpopular. I need more info on this.
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Quote: Frank Cannon wrote in post #2I don't see how this will happen. It is unconstitutional. It is unclear how it will be enforced. What stops the House from just saying that they don't want to do it anymore if Zero does something unpopular. I need more info on this.
Fast Track Authority already happened in the past. It was in effect from 1975 - 1994, then from 2002 - 2007. And we thought ObamaCare was the first bill you had to pass to find out what was in it!
The fast track negotiating authority (also called trade promotion authority or TPA, since 2002) for trade agreements is the authority of the President of the United States to negotiate international agreements that the Congress can approve or disapprove but cannot amend or filibuster. Fast-track negotiating authority is granted to the president by Congress. It was in effect pursuant to the Trade Act of 1974 from 1975 to 1994 and was restored in 2002 by the Trade Act of 2002. It expired at midnight on July 1, 2007.
[As an aside GW was a big fan of Fast Track Authority.]
Among 'free trade' agreements passed under Fast Track:
United States-Israel Free Trade Area, the United States-Canada Free Trade Agreement, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), the Uruguay Round Agreements Act (URAA), the United States-Chile Free Trade Agreement, the United States-Singapore Free Trade Agreement, the United States-Australia Free Trade Agreement, the United States-Morocco Free Trade Agreement, the Dominican Republic-Central America-United States Free Trade Agreement, the United States-Bahrain Free Trade Agreement, the United States-Oman Free Trade Agreement, and the Peru Trade Promotion Agreement.
Note: These so called 'Free Trade' Agreement, that Fast Track Authority fast tracks, are written in favor of global corporations who participate in their negotiation.
They are designed and enforced by NWO globalist bureaucrats {WTO}. These agreements place American workers and companies (burdened by onerous regulation and taxation) in an untenable competition with global corporations and workers who aren't even bound by minimal standards regarding working conditions, safety, or environment.
National borders are viewed only as an impediment to the free movement of goods and natural persons. Think the seive that is our southern border. Free Trade Agreements are part of the reason we import 'guest workers' who often pay no or minimal taxes irrespective of the employment situation. Additionally 'Free Trade' agreements subordinate US domestic and immigration law to international law and regulation.
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