BRKG House Rejects Trade Bill, Rebuffing Obama’s Dramatic Appeal

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House Rejects Trade Bill, Rebuffing Obama’s Dramatic Appeal

By JONATHAN WEISMAN
JUNE 12, 2015
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WASHINGTON — House Democrats rebuffed a dramatic personal appeal from President Obama on Friday, torpedoing his ambitious push to expand his trade negotiating power — and, quite likely, his chance to secure a legacy-defining trade accord spanning the Pacific Ocean.

In a remarkable rejection of a president they have resolutely backed, House Democrats voted to kill assistance to workers displaced by global trade, a program their party created and has stood by for four decades. By doing so, they brought down legislation granting the president trade promotion authority — the power to negotiate trade deals that cannot be amended or filibustered by Congress — before it could even come to a final vote.

“We want a better deal for America’s workers,” said Representative Nancy Pelosi of California, the House minority leader who has guided the president’s agenda for two terms and was personally lobbied by Mr. Obama until the last minute.

Republican leaders tried to muster support from their own party for trade adjustment assistance, a program they have long derided as an ineffective waste of money and sop to organized labor. But not enough Republicans were willing to save the program.

Republican leaders then passed a stand-alone trade promotion bill, but that would force the Senate to take up a trade bill all over again. And without trade adjustment assistance alongside it, passing trade promotion authority in the Senate would be highly doubtful.

The vote was an extraordinary blow to Mr. Obama, who went to the Capitol on Friday morning to plead personally with Democrats to “play it straight” — to oppose trade promotion if they must but not to kill trade assistance, a move he cast as cynical. On Thursday night, he had made an unscheduled trip to the annual congressional baseball game to try to persuade Ms. Pelosi.

But a president who has long kept Congress at arm’s length may have paid a price. Representative Henry Cuellar, Democrat of Texas, said Mr. Obama mustered rousing applause Friday morning as he went through the battles he had fought with fellow Democrats — on labor organizing, health care access and environmental protection. But he could not change minds.

“I wish there had been much better outreach,” Mr. Cuellar lamented.

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Op-Ed Columnist: Trade and Trust
MAY 22, 2015

Editorial: Trade Wars in Congress
MAY 12, 2015

 

[Be Well]

Obama-backed trade bill fails in the House

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...b6dce8-1073-11e5-a0dc-2b6f404ff5cf_story.html


By David Nakamura and Paul Kane June 12 at 1:42 PM

BREAKING: House Democrats delivered a stinging defeat to President Obama’s trade agenda when a vast majority voted to derail legislation designed to help him advance a sweeping deal with 11 Pacific-rim nations.

President Obama suffered a major defeat to his Pacific Rim free trade initiative Friday as House Democrats helped derail a key presidential priority despite his last-minute, personal plea on Capitol Hill.

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.

“I will be voting to slow down fast-track,” House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said on the floor moments before the vote, after keeping her intentions private for months. “Today we have an opportunity to slow down. Whatever the deal is with other countries, we want a better deal for American workers.”

The dramatic defeat could sink the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a sweeping free trade and regulatory pact that Obama has called central to his economic agenda at home and his foreign policy strategy in Asia. Obama’s loss came after a months-long lobbying blitz in which the president invested significant personal credibility and political capital.

Republican leaders, who had backed the president’s trade initiative, pleaded with their colleagues to support the deal or risk watching the United States lose economic ground in Asia.

“The world is watching us right now,” Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) said before the vote.

[Why House Republicans can’t get along]

Obama had rushed to Capitol Hill for the first time in nearly two years Friday morning to make a last-ditch plea to an emergency meeting of the Democratic caucus. The president urged members to vote with their conscience and “play it straight,” urging them to support the financial package for displaced workers, which Democrats have long supported.

“I don’t think you ever nail anything down around here,” Obama told reporters on his way out of the Capitol. “It’s always moving.”

But anti-trade Democrats pushed hard to block the financial aid plan, knowing that its defeat would also torpedo a companion measure to grant Obama fast-track authority to complete the TPP. That bill could not move forward after the aid package was defeated.

Lawmakers said the White House has pushed harder on trade than any legislative issue since the health-care reform effort during his first year. After keeping trade on the back burner, Obama joined forces with business-friendly Republicans after the midterm elections in pursuit of a rare bipartisan deal and launched a fierce effort to win support from his usual Democratic allies over the intense opposition of labor unions.

“The president and his counselors understand that this is a legacy vote for his second term,” Rep. Gerald E. Connolly (D-Va.), who supported the fast-track bill said Thursday. “It’s a philosophical battle, a political battle and an economic battle. The president finds himself in the crossfire with the base.”

[The trade deal explained for people who fall asleep hearing about trade deals]

Obama made an impassioned plea during his visit to Capitol Hill. But he appeared not to have changed many minds among fellow Democrats. After the president departed, two anti-trade Democrats, Louise Slaughter of New York and Gene Green of Texas, came out of the meeting determined to oppose Obama.

“I don’t want this trade bill to go through,” Slaughter, who represents the economically depressed area of Rochester, said of the fast-track bill.

Several members said Obama took no questions and received applause on several occasions when discussing his previous efforts to deliver on Democratic priorities.

The debate among Democrats has at times been raw and personal, and it has exposed old divisions on trade as the party attempts to coalesce around a common agenda ahead of the 2016 campaign to select Obama’s successor. Other Democratic leaders, including Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), have questioned Obama’s commitment to workers and the middle class, while union officials accused the president of marginalizing them.

“I would ask that you not mischaracterize our positions and views — even in the heat of a legislative battle,” AFL-CIO President Richard L. Trumka wrote this week in a letter to the president. “You have repeatedly isolated and marginalized labor and unions.”

White House officials had cast the dispute with labor as a difference of opinion that does not reflect a deeper divide within a party focused on stemming the nation’s growing wealth divide. Obama has framed the 12-nation TPP as a way to lock in rules to ensure U.S. economic primacy in the fast-growing Asian-Pacific region against increasing competition from China. In the president’s view, that would benefit American workers as the world’s economy shifts toward high-tech industries in which the United States maintains an advantage.

A failure on fast-track could lend weight to Chinese claims that the United States does not have staying power in Asia.

The president’s pitch was met with widespread skepticism among Democrats who blame past trade deals for killing jobs and depressing wages for Americans in traditional manufacturing work.

Inside the West Wing, Obama’s advisers bet that pushing forward on trade made the most sense, politically and practically, after Republicans won control of both chambers of Congress last November. Some Democrats have suggested that the president should have opened his final two years with legislative efforts on tax reform and infrastructure bills.

But fundamental, and perhaps irreconcilable, differences remain between the parties on those fronts. A failed year-long bid to pass comprehensive immigration reform had left Washington as polarized as ever, especially after Obama moved forward with a series of high-profile executive actions late last year.

In the scrambled politics of trade, Obama would quickly win the backing of his GOP adversaries and face what aides believed would be better odds to win over his own party on an ambitious, though risky, legislative gambit. But unlike in 2009 and 2010, when Obama relied on Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) to help wrestle the Affordable Care Act through Congress with Democratic majorities on a party-line vote, the president would have to essentially go it alone on trade.

The effort, by all accounts, was exhaustive.

Obama phoned and met with key Democratic lawmakers, promised to campaign for them against primary challenges and invited them aboard Air Force One. He traveled to Oregon in May to give a trade speech at Nike in the home state of Sen. Ron Wyden (D), who offered crucial support to win passage of the fast-track legislation in the Senate.

Cabinet secretaries have fanned out across the capital, and Secretary of State John F. Kerry visited a Boeing plant in Seattle to tout the merits of the trade pact. U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman has been a “nonstop” presence on Capitol Hill, said Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-Tex.), a prime target of the administration who has not disclosed his position on the trade bill.

On Thursday night, Obama made a surprise visit to the annual Congressional Baseball Game for Charity at Nationals Park to woo Pelosi and other Democrats.


“The president is personally engaged on this,” Wyden said Thursday. “He’s all in.”

Despite the intensive campaign, however, Obama struggled to convince more than a sliver of House Democrats to back his push for the fast-track authority. The legislation would have allowed him to submit the trade pact to Congress for a vote in a specified timetable without lawmakers being able to amend it.

The White House has called such powers crucial to persuading the other 11 nations involved in the TPP negotiations to put their best offers on the table in the final round of talks this summer.

But opponents said they feared that approving the fast-track measure would be akin to ratifying a pact that is still being negotiated and whose terms have been kept largely hidden from public view. (Lawmakers are permitted to read draft sections of the agreement in a classified setting and are prevented from talking about specifics in public.)

On Thursday, White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough and other Obama aides huddled with House Democrats in a bid to alleviate objections.

But at each turn, the administration was met by a determined coalition of opponents, made up of labor unions, environmental groups and progressive Democrats. Led by Rep. Rosa L. DeLauro (D-Conn.), the coalition has been meeting for two years with individual Democrats, and with small groups, to pressure them to oppose a fast-track bill.

Trumka met with the same House Democrats on Thursday soon after the White House officials had departed.

 

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Congress
House Democrats Hand Obama Embarrassing Defeat on Trade Deal

Carter Dougherty
Jun 12, 2015 10:49 AM PDT

In a 126-302 vote, Democrats helped reject a displaced workers’ aid program that they usually support, because the defeat meant the House couldn’t send the fast-track trade bill to Obama.

Democrats handed President Barack Obama an embarrassing defeat on his trade agenda, blocking final passage of fast-track negotiating authority just hours after he made a rare visit to Capitol Hill to seek their support.

In a 126-302 vote Friday, Democrats helped reject a displaced workers’ aid program they usually support that was needed to proceed to a final vote on fast-track authority. The House quickly passed, 219-211, the fast-track bill though it won’t go to Obama’s desk unless the worker aid bill also passes.

The House plans to vote on that measure Tuesday, House Republican aide Brendan Buck said. At that time, the package could go to Obama if passed.

“We have to slow down,” said House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, a California Democrat. “Whatever the deal is with other countries, we want a better deal for America’s workers.”

Obama’s administration -- and the president personally -- lobbied for months for expedited trade negotiating authority, saying it is needed to advance trade agreements that will keep the U.S. competitive with overseas rivals. In a sign of the push, earlier Friday press secretary Josh Earnest forwarded a Twitter posting by Obama’s ambassador to Japan, Caroline Kennedy, who wrote, “My dad, JFK, was for free trade. Democrats today should be too.”

Obama went to Capitol Hill Friday morning for a private meeting with House Democrats to push for passage of the trade measures. Afterward, several members said they still weren’t convinced.

‘We Just Disagree’

“If anyone could have changed our minds,” it would have been the president, said California Democrat Brad Sherman, who opposes the measures. The president spoke eloquently, but “a majority of our caucus does not agree with him on this issue,” Sherman said. “We just disagree.”

Representative Keith Ellison, a Minnesota Democrat said, “He said if we don’t do it his way then we aren’t playing it straight. Well, I am playing it straight.”

In an unusual alliance, most Republicans were backing Obama, who contended the trade measure would help U.S. workers and set rules for the global economy. Many Democrats remain stung by the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement, which labor unions blame for a decline in U.S. manufacturing jobs.

Obama sent top government officials including Treasury Secretary Jacob J. Lew to the Capitol a day earlier to plead for House Democrats’ votes. The measure, passed by the Senate in May, would let Obama submit trade agreements to Congress for an expedited, up-or-down vote without amendments.

Obama sought the authority to help complete a 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership that would be a cornerstone of rebalancing U.S. foreign policy toward Asia.

Bipartisan Opportunity

The defeat is a blow for Obama because trade was an area where he had seen opportunity for support from Republicans, who this year took control of the Senate as well as the House where they’d already had a majority. Obama had spoken with optimism as the congressional session began about trade being a bright spot where he and Republicans agreed something had to be done.

It was Obama’s own party that dealt him the defeat on trade, siding instead with labor unions and environmental groups that have urged caution on expanding trade, saying it would cost U.S. jobs.

Obama invested time and his political capital in making trade his top domestic priority this year. He has said that without fast-track authority, reaching trade agreements with Pacific or European nations will be unlikely. The Friday morning trip to Capitol Hill -- his first since 2013 for a policy matter -- was an indication of how personal the administration lobbying effort was to the the president.

The bill, H.R. 1314, would give Obama and the next president expedited trade negotiating authority for six years.

Worker Assistance

Friday’s voting procedure was worked out between Speaker John Boehner and Pelosi. It allowed a vote on the fast-track trade bill only if the House first passed a measure providing aid to workers who lose their jobs to foreign competition.

The worker assistance program typically is supported by Democrats and opposed by most Republicans. Some Democrats decided to defeat it because that would stop the vote on Obama’s trade negotiating authority. The move would be worth it even though $450 million in aid for workers would be lost, some lawmakers said.

“There are plenty of those who feel that’s not such a bad price to pay for saving American jobs,” Representative Jan Schakowsky, an Illinois Democrat, said Thursday.

Republicans also confronted opposition within their ranks to the trade package from members who wouldn’t approve anything strengthening Obama’s hand in international negotiations.

“As a Republican, free trade would be a great concept, but the folks back home have absolutely no faith and confidence in this president,” Representative Blake Farenthold of Texas told reporters Thursday.

Boehner of Ohio, who spoke with Obama by telephone Thursday about the trade votes, contended that legislating the conditions for trade negotiating authority was a better option.

 

[Bubble Head]

Hitler stopped momentarily. Expect a Reichstag fire soon. Troops and assets are in place.

 

[Be Well]

YES!

http://thehill.com/policy/finance/244835-house-deals-humiliating-blow-to-obama-in-trade-fight

House deals humiliating blow to Obama in trade fight

Francis Rivera

By Cristina Marcos - 06/12/15 01:49 PM EDT

Defying President Obama, House Democrats on Friday rallied to vote down legislation granting aid to workers displaced by trade, dealing a potentially fatal blow to the fast-track legislation that had been scheduled to hit the floor.

An overwhelming majority of Democrats voted to sink the package in the 126-302 vote despite an impassioned plea from the president, which he delivered in person during a rare morning visit to Capitol Hill. A majority of Republicans also opposed the bill.

The vote came minutes after a dramatic floor speech by House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), who rebuffed lobbying by Obama to vote against the Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) program.

Pelosi noted that Democrats have traditionally backed TAA, but sided with liberals in her conference who argued a vote against the program was the only way to stop fast-track.

“If TAA slows down the fast track, I’m prepared to vote against TAA," Pelosi said.

Other members of Pelosi's leadership team, including House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) and Reps. James Cyburn (S.C.) and Steve Israel (N.Y.), voted yes.

On the GOP side, Speaker John Boehner (Ohio) cast a vote in favor of TAA. House Speakers cast floor votes on relatively rare occasions.

Only 40 Democrats backed TAA while 144 voted against it. On the GOP side, 158 Republicans voted "no" while 86 Republicans voted "yes."

The vote against TAA is a humiliating defeat for Obama, who had spent weeks lobbying House Democrats to support his trade agenda in the face of overwhelming opposition from liberal groups and organized labor.

Under the procedure established for considering the trade package, TAA had been packaged with fast-track authority, and a vote against either doomed the total package.

In a slight surprise, HouseMajority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) announced after the TAA vote that the House would still vote on the fast-track measure, as well as a separate customs bill.

In the vote on fast-track, the measure was approved in a 219-211 vote. Twenty-eight Democrats backed fast-track, while 54 Republicans voted no.

Labor groups, including the AFL-CIO, lobbied Democrats to oppose TAA as part of a last-ditch effort to keep the fast-track legislation from coming up for a vote.

Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.), who spearheaded the revolt, said that the TAA measure was “underfunded and wouldn't do enough to help displaced workers.”

“It comes down to one question: Do we support hard working Americans or do we abandon them?” DeLauro said. “A vote for these bills is a vote against jobs and it’s a vote against wages.”

Other Democrats who oppose the fast-track bill rebuked their colleagues for opposing TAA, arguing the vote threatens to keep the assistance from being part of the final package sent to Obama.

“I refuse to put displaced workers at risk for the sake of a political tactic,” said Rep. David Price (D-N.C.).

House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), who led the GOP effort to whip votes for the trade bills, warned that defeating the trade package would make the U.S. look unreliable on the international stage.

“The world is watching this,” Ryan said during floor debate. “If we establish TPA, we are saying on a bipartisan basis, we want America to lead.”

 

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The president’s ‘bully pulpit’ is way overrated. This trade vote proved it.

By Chris Cillizza June 12 at 1:16 PM

President Obama went all-out to convince two dozen or so House Democrats to vote for the Trans Pacific Partnership trade deal Friday afternoon, a level of effort that laid bare his desire to make the deal a centerpiece of his second-term legacy. And he failed.

For all of his courting -- he went to the Congressional Baseball Game on Thursday night, for pete's sake! -- the effort failed miserably after a 302-126 vote against granting financial aid to displaced workers, which was needed to pass the full package. Wrote WaPo's David Nakamura before the votes: "The president’s pitch has been met with widespread skepticism among Democrats who blame past trade deals for killing jobs and depressing wages for Americans in traditional manufacturing work."

This tweet from freshman Pennsylvania Democratic Rep. Brendan Boyle, written in the wake of Obama's surprise visit to Capitol Hill on Friday morning, speaks to the president's problems:

(See article for tweet)

And shortly before the votes, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) -- a pivotal figure in the debate -- broke with the president.

(See article for tweet)

How can this be, you ask? How can a sitting Democratic president -- elected and re-elected convincingly, popular among his party's base -- not be able to convince a tiny sliver of his own caucus -- or even his party's leader -- in the House to be for something that he quite clearly sees as legacy-defining (not to mention good for the country)?

And the answer is that the persuasive powers of the president are simply overrated in this modern political age -- for lots of reasons.

This overestimation is grounded in the idea that presidents lead, that the job description includes finding a way when no way appears available. Defenders of that view cite the likes of Theodore Roosevelt (who coined the term "bully pulpit") and Abraham Lincoln -- presidents who, at times, dragged the country along with them on the right path. Presidents like them reveal that leadership can overcome even the greatest obstacles thrown before the Congress or the country. After all, compared to slavery, what's a little trade deal?

The problem with that analysis is, of course, that neither Roosevelt nor Lincoln nor anyone who has been president anytime other than the last 10 years (or so) had to deal with the unique challenges of this moment in political life -- all of which conspire to make the idea of the president leading from the bully pulpit look like a quaint relic of times past.

Consider:

1. The massive fracturing of the media -- and not just the political media -- means that "talking to the country" is simply impossible. The closest a president can get to talking to the country is when Obama gives an interview just before the Super Bowl. Short of that, things like the State of the Union, addresses to joint sessions of Congress and other attempts to reach a large portion of the electorate are just non starters. Even when all three broadcast networks carry an Obama speech live -- and that is a tremendous rarity these days -- the White House is reaching far fewer people than it could even a decade ago.

2. The political polarization of the country coupled with the two straight decades of redistricting that have made 90 percent of congressional districts almost impermeable to a serious challenge means that the number of persuadable members on any vote is just not very high. Most Members of Congress only have to worry about losing in a primary and, therefore, are constantly worried about getting out of step with their activist base.

So, on this series of trade votes, Democrats are wary of siding against organized labor and environmental groups -- both of whom oppose supporting fast-track or the Trans-Pacific Partnership. Labor has promised to field primary challenges to those Democrats who support the trade deal and, even if the unions don't make good on that threat in every case, it's enough to scare members already nervous about pissing off their base. For Republicans who are on the fence, they know that their base hates Obama more than they hate anyone or anything else in politics. So voting for an Obama priority -- no matter the "why" behind that vote -- could be enough fodder to get a conservative primary come 2016.

And why risk it?

3. Obama is in the fourth quarter of his presidency -- and lame-duck status comes faster than ever these days. Obama never has to run for anything again -- and will be gone totally from the political scene in January 2017. That makes him different than roughly 95 percent of the members who voted on the trade deal today -- or so they hope. While Democrats would undoubtedly like to help Obama out, they understand that he's a short timer -- and as such is focused on getting things done now. His timeline and their timelines are not the same.

The reality of modern politics is that after about a year of a president's second term, he begins to fade in terms of influence over Congress and the country. Our forever-distracted, phone-staring, second-screen watching culture is always looking for the next thing to pay attention to. That's why the 2016 presidential race effectively was going on just below the surface as early as mid-2014 (or maybe even earlier). Persuading people who have only one eye on whatever you are doing (if that) is a very very hard thing to do.

Now, it's possible that Obama finds a way to cajole the two dozen or so Democrats he needs to get the bill passed later today. But that still won't prove the power of the bully pulpit. In fact, quite the opposite. The fact that he and his team have had to work THIS hard for what is less than 13 percent of the 188 Democrats in the House caucus speaks to just how hard it is to change minds these days -- for a president or any other politician.

This post was updated after the votes took place.

 

[Be Well]

Mods, could you merge my thread with HouseCarl's? He was one minute before me!

Thank you -

 

[Hfcomms]

The Republicans supported Obama on TPP and the Democrats shot him down. Strange bedfellows abound.

 

[Buick Electra]

Praise God! Fast Track Authority JUST FAILED!

And it's due to Nancy Peolsi and the House Dems ! PRAISING GOD!

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Drudge Headline: HOUSE DEFEATS TRADE BILL...

BREAKING: House Democrats delivered a stinging defeat to President Obama’s trade agenda when a vast majority voted to derail legislation designed to help him advance a sweeping deal with 11 Pacific-rim nations.



President Obama suffered a major defeat to his Pacific Rim free trade initiative Friday as House Democrats helped derail a key presidential priority despite his last-minute, personal plea on Capitol Hill.


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.


“I will be voting to slow down fast-track,” House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said on the floor moments before the vote, after keeping her intentions private for months. “Today we have an opportunity to slow down. Whatever the deal is with other countries, we want a better deal for American workers.”
The dramatic defeat could sink the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a sweeping free trade and regulatory pact that Obama has called central to his economic agenda at home and his foreign policy strategy in Asia. Obama’s loss came after a months-long lobbying blitz in which the president invested significant personal credibility and political capital.


Republican leaders, who had backed the president’s trade initiative, pleaded with their colleagues to support the deal or risk watching the United States lose economic ground in Asia.


“The world is watching us right now,” Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) said before the vote.


Obama had rushed to Capitol Hill for the first time in nearly two years Friday morning to make a last-ditch plea to an emergency meeting of the Democratic caucus. The president urged members to vote with their conscience and “play it straight,” urging them to support the financial package for displaced workers, which Democrats have long supported.


“I don’t think you ever nail anything down around here,” Obama told reporters on his way out of the Capitol. “It’s always moving.”


But anti-trade Democrats pushed hard to block the financial aid plan, knowing that its defeat would also torpedo a companion measure to grant Obama fast-track authority to complete the TPP. That bill could not move forward after the aid package was defeated.


Lawmakers said the White House has pushed harder on trade than any legislative issue since the health-care reform effort during his first year. After keeping trade on the back burner, Obama joined forces with business-friendly Republicans after the midterm elections in pursuit of a rare bipartisan deal and launched a fierce effort to win support from his usual Democratic allies over the intense opposition of labor unions.

“The president and his counselors understand that this is a legacy vote for his second term,” Rep. Gerald E. Connolly (D-Va.), who supported the fast-track bill said Thursday. “It’s a philosophical battle, a political battle and an economic battle. The president finds himself in the crossfire with the base.”


Obama made an impassioned plea during his visit to Capitol Hill. But he appeared not to have changed many minds among fellow Democrats. After the president departed, two anti-trade Democrats, Louise Slaughter of New York and Gene Green of Texas, came out of the meeting determined to oppose Obama.
“I don’t want this trade bill to go through,” Slaughter, who represents the economically depressed area of Rochester, said of the fast-track bill.


Several members said Obama took no questions and received applause on several occasions when discussing his previous efforts to deliver on Democratic priorities.


The debate among Democrats has at times been raw and personal, and it has exposed old divisions on trade as the party attempts to coalesce around a common agenda ahead of the 2016 campaign to select Obama’s successor. Other Democratic leaders, including Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), have questioned Obama’s commitment to workers and the middle class, while union officials accused the president of marginalizing them.


“I would ask that you not mischaracterize our positions and views — even in the heat of a legislative battle,” AFL-CIO President Richard L. Trumka wrote this week in a letter to the president. “You have repeatedly isolated and marginalized labor and unions.”


White House officials had cast the dispute with labor as a difference of opinion that does not reflect a deeper divide within a party focused on stemming the nation’s growing wealth divide. Obama has framed the 12-nation TPP as a way to lock in rules to ensure U.S. economic primacy in the fast-growing Asian-Pacific region against increasing competition from China. In the president’s view, that would benefit American workers as the world’s economy shifts toward high-tech industries in which the United States maintains an advantage.


A failure on fast-track could lend weight to Chinese claims that the United States does not have staying power in Asia.

The president’s pitch was met with widespread skepticism among Democrats who blame past trade deals for killing jobs and depressing wages for Americans in traditional manufacturing work.

Inside the West Wing, Obama’s advisers bet that pushing forward on trade made the most sense, politically and practically, after Republicans won control of both chambers of Congress last November. Some Democrats have suggested that the president should have opened his final two years with legislative efforts on tax reform and infrastructure bills.

But fundamental, and perhaps irreconcilable, differences remain between the parties on those fronts. A failed year-long bid to pass comprehensive immigration reform had left Washington as polarized as ever, especially after Obama moved forward with a series of high-profile executive actions late last year.

In the scrambled politics of trade, Obama would quickly win the backing of his GOP adversaries and face what aides believed would be better odds to win over his own party on an ambitious, though risky, legislative gambit. But unlike in 2009 and 2010, when Obama relied on Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) to help wrestle the Affordable Care Act through Congress with Democratic majorities on a party-line vote, the president would have to essentially go it alone on trade.

The effort, by all accounts, was exhaustive.

Obama phoned and met with key Democratic lawmakers, promised to campaign for them against primary challenges and invited them aboard Air Force One. He traveled to Oregon in May to give a trade speech at Nike in the home state of Sen. Ron Wyden (D), who offered crucial support to win passage of the fast-track legislation in the Senate.

Cabinet secretaries have fanned out across the capital, and Secretary of State John F. Kerry visited a Boeing plant in Seattle to tout the merits of the trade pact. U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman has been a “nonstop” presence on Capitol Hill, said Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-Tex.), a prime target of the administration who has not disclosed his position on the trade bill.

On Thursday night, Obama made a surprise visit to the annual Congressional Baseball Game for Charity at Nationals Park to woo Pelosi and other Democrats.

“The president is personally engaged on this,” Wyden said Thursday. “He’s all in.”

Despite the intensive campaign, however, Obama struggled to convince more than a sliver of House Democrats to back his push for the fast-track authority. The legislation would have allowed him to submit the trade pact to Congress for a vote in a specified timetable without lawmakers being able to amend it.

The White House has called such powers crucial to persuading the other 11 nations involved in the TPP negotiations to put their best offers on the table in the final round of talks this summer.

But opponents said they feared that approving the fast-track measure would be akin to ratifying a pact that is still being negotiated and whose terms have been kept largely hidden from public view. (Lawmakers are permitted to read draft sections of the agreement in a classified setting and are prevented from talking about specifics in public.)

On Thursday, White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough and other Obama aides huddled with House Democrats in a bid to alleviate objections.

But at each turn, the administration was met by a determined coalition of opponents, made up of labor unions, environmental groups and progressive Democrats. Led by Rep. Rosa L. DeLauro (D-Conn.), the coalition has been meeting for two years with individual Democrats, and with small groups, to pressure them to oppose a fast-track bill.

Trumka met with the same House Democrats on Thursday soon after the White House officials had departed.

Mike DeBonis and Kelsey Snell contributed to this report.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...b6dce8-1073-11e5-a0dc-2b6f404ff5cf_story.html

 

[Housecarl]

The Republicans supported Obama on TPP and the Democrats shot him down. Strange bedfellows abound.

To be more accurate, the GOP leadership and followers of the "establishment" voted for it.

ETA: I think Pelosi et al realized they couldn't survive another "vote for it to find out what's in it" moment; particularly since their source of union campaign contributions would very likely take a huge hit.

 

[bw]

I await His Highness' hissy fit.

 

[mbabulldog]

Obama will just ignore it anyway...EO, here we come...

 

[mzkitty]

7m
Editor's note: Under the procedure set for the trade bills currently in the U.S. House, the Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) program had been packaged with "fast-track" authority, so the latest vote against TAA stops the entire package from moving forward, The Hill reports. "Fast-track" was approved 219-211, but TAA, which grants aid to workers displaced by trade, failed 126-302 due to most Democrats voting against the measure. No more votes are expected in the House on Friday, but Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, has put forth a motion to reconsider TAA early next week. Exact vote timing is unclear. - Stephanie


And WHY??????? They do nothing except advance their agenda.

1h
More: Pelosi says she is a big supporter of legislation to help workers who lose jobs to global trade, but if voting yes on that slows the 'fast track' trade bill, 'then its defeat, sad to say, is the only way'
End of alert

 

[Sleeping Cobra]

Obama will just ignore it anyway...EO, here we come...

I was going to mention this. Maybe this was the plan all along. very odd that the Democrats voted against it.

 

[Heliobas Disciple]

The Republicans supported Obama on TPP and the Democrats shot him down. Strange bedfellows abound.

They didn't support 0bama, they wanted this law. Whoever was behind this piece of legislation is the force behind the curtain of the Republicans, not the Democrats. They must have had something on 0bama to get him to support it. He was very vocally against "Fast Track" legislation when he first ran for president. I wouldn't be surprised if his support was very lackluster behind closed doors.

HD

 

[mzkitty]

I was going to mention this. Maybe this was the plan all along. very odd that the Democrats voted against it.

Not really. See what I posted right above you.

 

[TerryK]

I await His Highness' hissy fit.

...

 

[mzkitty]

2m
White House's Josh Earnest says, 'we're gonna continue to make an aggressive case' for defeated Trade Adjustment Assistance legislation - @KellyO

6m
White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest insists fight is not over for President Obama's trade pact; calls House vote a 'procedural snafu' - @DavidNakamura

 

[Be Well]

The Republicans supported Obama on TPP and the Democrats shot him down. Strange bedfellows abound.

A fair amount of Rs voted against it - I want to see a list.

The GOP elites voted for it, Cruz did too puke and Walker supported it. They are both totally off my list of possibles.

I read yesterday that calls/emails/letters flowing in to DC in huge volume, have been 20 to 1 against this monstrosity.

 

[Hawkgirl_70]

Why do we have 2 active threads on this?

This thread is also good. They should be merged together.

http://www.timebomb2000.com/vb/show...ALERT’-OBAMATRADE-JUST-LIKE-AMNESTY-OBAMACARE

 

[Oreally]

A fair amount of Rs voted against it - I want to see a list.

The GOP elites voted for it, Cruz did too puke and Walker supported it. They are both totally off my list of possibles.

that cruz supported a secret law (not this one, but the follow on TPP) that would give secret powers to the POTUS kinda did it for me. walker too.

there's no one left.

 

[Shacknasty Shagrat]

Here is a link to the House roll call vote on the bill.
My local Congressman, Dan Newhouse was for the bill until he voted against it, after voting for it when he thought it would win, he then changed his vote to no.
What a weasel.
SS

FINAL VOTE RESULTS FOR ROLL CALL 361
(Republicans in roman; Democrats in italic; Independents underlined)

H R 1314 RECORDED VOTE 12-Jun-2015 1:47 PM
QUESTION: Concurring in portion of Senate Amdt comprising title II (except section 212)
BILL TITLE: Trade Act of 2015

Ayes Noes PRES NV
Republican 86 158 2
Democratic 40 144 4
Independent
TOTALS 126 302 6


---- AYES 126 ---

Aderholt
Ashford
Barletta
Barr
Barton
Bass
Benishek
Bera
Beyer
Bishop (MI)
Blum
Blumenauer
Bonamici
Bost
Boustany
Brady (TX)
Brooks (IN)
Calvert
Carney
Clyburn
Coffman
Cole
Comstock
Connolly
Cooper
Costa
Costello (PA)
Crenshaw
Cuellar
Curbelo (FL)
Davis (CA)
Davis, Rodney
Delaney
DelBene
Dent
Dold
Donovan
Emmer (MN)
Eshoo
Farr
Fitzpatrick
Fortenberry
Foster
Frelinghuysen
Graves (MO)
Grothman
Guinta
Guthrie
Hanna
Heck (WA)
Herrera Beutler
Himes
Hoyer
Huizenga (MI)
Hurt (VA)
Israel
Issa
Johnson (OH)
Johnson, E. B.
Jolly
Katko
Kelly (PA)
Kilmer
Kind
King (NY)
Kinzinger (IL)
Kline
Larsen (WA)
Larson (CT)
Luetkemeyer
Marino
McCarthy
McHenry
McKinley
McMorris Rodgers
Meehan
Meeks
Messer
Mica
Miller (MI)
Moolenaar
Murphy (PA)
Nunes
O'Rourke
Paulsen
Perlmutter
Peters
Pitts
Polis
Price (NC)
Quigley
Reed
Reichert
Rice (NY)
Richmond
Rigell
Rogers (AL)
Rogers (KY)
Rokita
Roskam
Royce
Ryan (WI)
Scalise
Schrader
Sewell (AL)
Shimkus
Shuster
Simpson
Smith (WA)
Stefanik
Stivers
Thompson (PA)
Thornberry
Tiberi
Trott
Turner
Upton
Valadao
Wagner
Walberg
Walden
Walters, Mimi
Wasserman Schultz
Whitfield
Wilson (SC)
Young (IA)

---- NOES 302 ---

Abraham
Adams
Aguilar
Allen
Amash
Babin
Beatty
Becerra
Bilirakis
Bishop (GA)
Bishop (UT)
Black
Blackburn
Boehner
Boyle, Brendan F.
Brady (PA)
Brat
Bridenstine
Brooks (AL)
Brown (FL)
Brownley (CA)
Buchanan
Buck
Bucshon
Burgess
Bustos
Butterfield
Byrne
Capps
Capuano
Cárdenas
Carter (GA)
Carter (TX)
Cartwright
Castor (FL)
Castro (TX)
Chabot
Chaffetz
Chu, Judy
Cicilline
Clark (MA)
Clarke (NY)
Clawson (FL)
Clay
Cleaver
Cohen
Collins (GA)
Collins (NY)
Conaway
Conyers
Cook
Courtney
Cramer
Crawford
Crowley
Culberson
Cummings
Davis, Danny
DeFazio
DeGette
DeLauro
Denham
DeSantis
DeSaulnier
DesJarlais
Deutch
Diaz-Balart
Dingell
Doggett
Doyle, Michael F.
Duckworth
Duffy
Duncan (SC)
Duncan (TN)
Edwards
Ellison
Ellmers (NC)
Engel
Esty
Farenthold
Fattah
Fincher
Fleischmann
Fleming
Flores
Forbes
Foxx
Frankel (FL)
Franks (AZ)
Fudge
Gabbard
Gallego
Garamendi
Garrett
Gibbs
Gibson
Gohmert
Goodlatte
Gosar
Gowdy
Graham
Granger
Graves (GA)
Graves (LA)
Grayson
Green, Al
Green, Gene
Griffith
Grijalva
Gutiérrez
Hahn
Hardy
Harper
Harris
Hartzler
Hastings
Heck (NV)
Hensarling
Hice, Jody B.
Higgins
Hill
Hinojosa
Holding
Honda
Hudson
Huelskamp
Huffman
Hultgren
Hunter
Hurd (TX)
Jackson Lee
Jeffries
Jenkins (KS)
Jenkins (WV)
Johnson (GA)
Johnson, Sam
Jones
Jordan
Joyce
Kaptur
Keating
Kelly (IL)
Kelly (MS)
Kennedy
Kildee
King (IA)
Kirkpatrick
Knight
Kuster
Labrador
Lamborn
Lance
Langevin
Latta
Lawrence
Lee
Levin
Lewis
Lieu, Ted
Lipinski
LoBiondo
Loebsack
Lofgren
Long
Loudermilk
Love
Lowenthal
Lowey
Lucas
Lujan Grisham (NM)
Luján, Ben Ray (NM)
Lummis
Lynch
MacArthur
Maloney, Carolyn
Maloney, Sean
Marchant
Massie
Matsui
McCaul
McClintock
McCollum
McDermott
McGovern
McNerney
McSally
Meadows
Meng
Miller (FL)
Mooney (WV)
Moore
Moulton
Mullin
Mulvaney
Murphy (FL)
Nadler
Napolitano
Neal
Neugebauer
Newhouse
Noem
Nolan
Norcross
Nugent
Olson
Palazzo
Pallone
Palmer
Pascrell
Payne
Pearce
Pelosi
Perry
Peterson
Pingree
Pittenger
Pocan
Poe (TX)
Poliquin
Pompeo
Posey
Price, Tom
Rangel
Ratcliffe
Renacci
Ribble
Rice (SC)
Roby
Roe (TN)
Rohrabacher
Rooney (FL)
Ros-Lehtinen
Ross
Rothfus
Rouzer
Roybal-Allard
Ruiz
Ruppersberger
Rush
Russell
Ryan (OH)
Salmon
Sánchez, Linda T.
Sanchez, Loretta
Sanford
Sarbanes
Schakowsky
Schiff
Schweikert
Scott (VA)
Scott, Austin
Scott, David
Sensenbrenner
Serrano
Sessions
Sherman
Sinema
Sires
Slaughter
Smith (MO)
Smith (NE)
Smith (NJ)
Smith (TX)
Stewart
Stutzman
Swalwell (CA)
Takai
Takano
Thompson (MS)
Tipton
Titus
Tonko
Torres
Tsongas
Van Hollen
Veasey
Vela
Velázquez
Visclosky
Walker
Walorski
Walz
Waters, Maxine
Watson Coleman
Weber (TX)
Webster (FL)
Welch
Wenstrup
Westerman
Westmoreland
Williams
Wilson (FL)
Wittman
Womack
Woodall
Yarmuth
Yoder
Yoho
Young (AK)
Young (IN)
Zeldin
Zinke

---- NOT VOTING 6 ---

Amodei
Carson (IN)
LaMalfa
Speier
Thompson (CA)
Vargas

http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2015/roll361.xml

 

[Bubble Head]

that cruz supported a secret law (not this one, but the follow on TPP) that would give secret powers to the POTUS kinda did it for me. walker too.

there's no one left.

Well you have Trump coming in next week but I still have my Palin sign ready. Any women that can kill, skin, and eat her own moose has my vote.

 

[Echo 5]

Hitler stopped momentarily. Expect a Reichstag fire soon. Troops and assets are in place.

This. Stand by.

 

[Shacknasty Shagrat]

Now that the TPA is dead after the TAA failed, when can we see the secret text of the TPA?
How about cloud funding to get a reward(or at least a Pultzer) for who comes up with a copy of the secret deal??
SS

 

[Oreally]

politics does indeed make strange bedfellows . . . i cannot believe i agree with this socialist idiot on anything!

WASHINGTON, June 12 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) issued the following statement after the House today voted on a trade bill:

“I applaud the House of Representatives for the vote today. While the fight will no doubt continue, today’s vote is a victory for America’s working people and for the environment. It is clearly a defeat for corporate America, which has outsourced millions of decent-paying jobs and wants to continue doing just that.”

 

[Hawkgirl_70]

This damn beast won't die!!!! Paul Ryan and Johnny B will have another vote by Wednesday to reconsider.

It's good for our country, they say.

These traitors need recalled!!! This crap of not listening to the American Public needs to stop NOW!

 

[Adino]

a month from now it will have been split into 2 or 3 other pieces of legislation, have a new name stamped on it, and pass

just like the 'patriot act' did this month

 

[Dennis Olson]

In a sign of the push, earlier Friday press secretary Josh Earnest forwarded a Twitter posting by Obama’s ambassador to Japan, Caroline Kennedy, who wrote, “My dad, JFK, was for free trade. Democrats today should be too.”

Her dad wouldn't even be allowed into the demonrat party today.

 

[Dennis Olson]

This damn beast won't die!!!! Paul Ryan and Johnny B will have another vote by Wednesday to reconsider.

It's good for our country, they say.

These traitors need recalled!!! This crap of not listening to the American Public needs to stop NOW!

In years past, our "representatives" (spits) at least had to maintain a semblance of doing what their constituents wanted. That is no longer the case. These filthy traitors are OPENLY kowtowing to their global elite masters. There is no longer the rule of law and the Constitution in this country. We are every bit as much a banana republic as Argentina or Venezuela.

 

[Shacknasty Shagrat]

This damn beast won't die!!!! Paul Ryan and Johnny B will have another vote by Wednesday to reconsider.

It's good for our country, they say.

These traitors need recalled!!! This crap of not listening to the American Public needs to stop NOW!

Keep up the pressure!!!
Ask your Representative how they voted.
The bill of the undead will revive on Tuesday/Wednesday so we still have time to find out what deals are hidden in the secret TPP bill.
SS

 

[Possible Impact]

2m
White House's Josh Earnest says, 'we're gonna continue to make an aggressive case' for defeated Trade Adjustment Assistance legislation - @KellyO

6m
White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest insists fight is not over for President Obama's trade pact; calls House vote a 'procedural snafu' - @DavidNakamura

A timely thread on the Administration's response

Obama Not Ruling Out U.S. Military Action In Congress (Onion)
http://www.timebomb2000.com/vb/show...g-Out-U.S.-Military-Action-In-Congress-(Onion)

[FONT=Verdana,Arial]Admitting that diplomatic outreach efforts in the area have so far proven [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial] unsuccessful, the president claimed that his administration is weighing [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial] the feasibility of committing combat troops to both the U.S. Senate and[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial] the House of Representatives in order to bring lasting peace and stability [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial] to the chaos-afflicted legislature.[/FONT]

[FONT=Verdana,Arial] “We have not yet made a decision as to how we are going to address this [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial]rapidly deteriorating situation, but at this point I can tell you that military [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial]action is indeed on the table,” Obama told reporters at a morning press [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial] conference, emphasizing that he is “deeply troubled” by the escalating hostilities [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial] and diminishing prospects for unity on the Congressional floor. [/FONT]


^^^ Original source is The Onion...

​

 

[TheSearcher]

In a sign of the push, earlier Friday press secretary Josh Earnest forwarded a Twitter posting by Obama’s ambassador to Japan, Caroline Kennedy, who wrote, “My dad, JFK, was for free trade. Democrats today should be too.”

Her dad wouldn't even be allowed into the demonrat party today.

Damn straight.

 

[night driver]

I await His Highness' hissy fit.

Obama will just ignore it anyway...EO, here we come...

I was going to mention this. Maybe this was the plan all along. very odd that the Democrats voted against it.

Quote Originally Posted by Bubble Head View Post
Hitler stopped momentarily. Expect a Reichstag fire soon. Troops and assets are in place.

This. Stand by.

A timely thread on the Administration's response

Obama Not Ruling Out U.S. Military Action In Congress (Onion)
http://www.timebomb2000.com/vb/show...g-Out-U.S.-Military-Action-In-Congress-(Onion)

[FONT=Verdana,Arial]Admitting that diplomatic outreach efforts in the area have so far proven [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial] unsuccessful, the president claimed that his administration is weighing [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial] the feasibility of committing combat troops to both the U.S. Senate and[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial] the House of Representatives in order to bring lasting peace and stability [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial] to the chaos-afflicted legislature.[/FONT]

[FONT=Verdana,Arial] “We have not yet made a decision as to how we are going to address this [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial]rapidly deteriorating situation, but at this point I can tell you that military [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial]action is indeed on the table,” Obama told reporters at a morning press [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial] conference, emphasizing that he is “deeply troubled” by the escalating hostilities [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial] and diminishing prospects for unity on the Congressional floor. [/FONT]


^^^ Original source is The Onion...

​

It is SERIOUSLY BAD JUJU to tell a sociopathic malignant narcissist "NO!"

 

[Buick Electra]

He was very vocally against "Fast Track" legislation when he first ran for president.
HD

He was also against same-sex marriage.....when he ran for POTUS in 2008. He seems to flip quite a bit.

 

[Buick Electra]

A fair amount of Rs voted against it - I want to see a list.

The GOP elites voted for it, Cruz did too puke and Walker supported it. They are both totally off my list of possibles.

I read yesterday that calls/emails/letters flowing in to DC in huge volume, have been 20 to 1 against this monstrosity.

I know Cruz supported it but didn't know about Walker. Got a link for Walker?

 

[Buick Electra]

Here is a link to the House roll call vote on the bill.
My local Congressman, Dan Newhouse was for the bill until he voted against it, after voting for it when he thought it would win, he then changed his vote to no.
What a weasel.
SS

FINAL VOTE RESULTS FOR ROLL CALL 361
(Republicans in roman; Democrats in italic; Independents underlined)

H R 1314 RECORDED VOTE 12-Jun-2015 1:47 PM
QUESTION: Concurring in portion of Senate Amdt comprising title II (except section 212)
BILL TITLE: Trade Act of 2015

Ayes Noes PRES NV
Republican 86 158 2
Democratic 40 144 4
Independent
TOTALS 126 302 6


---- AYES 126 ---

Aderholt
Ashford
Barletta
Barr
Barton
Bass
Benishek
Bera
Beyer
Bishop (MI)
Blum
Blumenauer
Bonamici
Bost
Boustany
Brady (TX)
Brooks (IN)
Calvert
Carney
Clyburn
Coffman
Cole
Comstock
Connolly
Cooper
Costa
Costello (PA)
Crenshaw
Cuellar
Curbelo (FL)
Davis (CA)
Davis, Rodney
Delaney
DelBene
Dent
Dold
Donovan
Emmer (MN)
Eshoo
Farr
Fitzpatrick
Fortenberry
Foster
Frelinghuysen
Graves (MO)
Grothman
Guinta
Guthrie
Hanna
Heck (WA)
Herrera Beutler
Himes
Hoyer
Huizenga (MI)
Hurt (VA)
Israel
Issa
Johnson (OH)
Johnson, E. B.
Jolly
Katko
Kelly (PA)
Kilmer
Kind
King (NY)
Kinzinger (IL)
Kline
Larsen (WA)
Larson (CT)
Luetkemeyer
Marino
McCarthy
McHenry
McKinley
McMorris Rodgers
Meehan
Meeks
Messer
Mica
Miller (MI)
Moolenaar
Murphy (PA)
Nunes
O'Rourke
Paulsen
Perlmutter
Peters
Pitts
Polis
Price (NC)
Quigley
Reed
Reichert
Rice (NY)
Richmond
Rigell
Rogers (AL)
Rogers (KY)
Rokita
Roskam
Royce
Ryan (WI)
Scalise
Schrader
Sewell (AL)
Shimkus
Shuster
Simpson
Smith (WA)
Stefanik
Stivers
Thompson (PA)
Thornberry
Tiberi
Trott
Turner
Upton
Valadao
Wagner
Walberg
Walden
Walters, Mimi
Wasserman Schultz
Whitfield
Wilson (SC)
Young (IA)

---- NOES 302 ---

Abraham
Adams
Aguilar
Allen
Amash
Babin
Beatty
Becerra
Bilirakis
Bishop (GA)
Bishop (UT)
Black
Blackburn
Boehner
Boyle, Brendan F.
Brady (PA)
Brat
Bridenstine
Brooks (AL)
Brown (FL)
Brownley (CA)
Buchanan
Buck
Bucshon
Burgess
Bustos
Butterfield
Byrne
Capps
Capuano
Cárdenas
Carter (GA)
Carter (TX)
Cartwright
Castor (FL)
Castro (TX)
Chabot
Chaffetz
Chu, Judy
Cicilline
Clark (MA)
Clarke (NY)
Clawson (FL)
Clay
Cleaver
Cohen
Collins (GA)
Collins (NY)
Conaway
Conyers
Cook
Courtney
Cramer
Crawford
Crowley
Culberson
Cummings
Davis, Danny
DeFazio
DeGette
DeLauro
Denham
DeSantis
DeSaulnier
DesJarlais
Deutch
Diaz-Balart
Dingell
Doggett
Doyle, Michael F.
Duckworth
Duffy
Duncan (SC)
Duncan (TN)
Edwards
Ellison
Ellmers (NC)
Engel
Esty
Farenthold
Fattah
Fincher
Fleischmann
Fleming
Flores
Forbes
Foxx
Frankel (FL)
Franks (AZ)
Fudge
Gabbard
Gallego
Garamendi
Garrett
Gibbs
Gibson
Gohmert
Goodlatte
Gosar
Gowdy
Graham
Granger
Graves (GA)
Graves (LA)
Grayson
Green, Al
Green, Gene
Griffith
Grijalva
Gutiérrez
Hahn
Hardy
Harper
Harris
Hartzler
Hastings
Heck (NV)
Hensarling
Hice, Jody B.
Higgins
Hill
Hinojosa
Holding
Honda
Hudson
Huelskamp
Huffman
Hultgren
Hunter
Hurd (TX)
Jackson Lee
Jeffries
Jenkins (KS)
Jenkins (WV)
Johnson (GA)
Johnson, Sam
Jones
Jordan
Joyce
Kaptur
Keating
Kelly (IL)
Kelly (MS)
Kennedy
Kildee
King (IA)
Kirkpatrick
Knight
Kuster
Labrador
Lamborn
Lance
Langevin
Latta
Lawrence
Lee
Levin
Lewis
Lieu, Ted
Lipinski
LoBiondo
Loebsack
Lofgren
Long
Loudermilk
Love
Lowenthal
Lowey
Lucas
Lujan Grisham (NM)
Luján, Ben Ray (NM)
Lummis
Lynch
MacArthur
Maloney, Carolyn
Maloney, Sean
Marchant
Massie
Matsui
McCaul
McClintock
McCollum
McDermott
McGovern
McNerney
McSally
Meadows
Meng
Miller (FL)
Mooney (WV)
Moore
Moulton
Mullin
Mulvaney
Murphy (FL)
Nadler
Napolitano
Neal
Neugebauer
Newhouse
Noem
Nolan
Norcross
Nugent
Olson
Palazzo
Pallone
Palmer
Pascrell
Payne
Pearce
Pelosi
Perry
Peterson
Pingree
Pittenger
Pocan
Poe (TX)
Poliquin
Pompeo
Posey
Price, Tom
Rangel
Ratcliffe
Renacci
Ribble
Rice (SC)
Roby
Roe (TN)
Rohrabacher
Rooney (FL)
Ros-Lehtinen
Ross
Rothfus
Rouzer
Roybal-Allard
Ruiz
Ruppersberger
Rush
Russell
Ryan (OH)
Salmon
Sánchez, Linda T.
Sanchez, Loretta
Sanford
Sarbanes
Schakowsky
Schiff
Schweikert
Scott (VA)
Scott, Austin
Scott, David
Sensenbrenner
Serrano
Sessions
Sherman
Sinema
Sires
Slaughter
Smith (MO)
Smith (NE)
Smith (NJ)
Smith (TX)
Stewart
Stutzman
Swalwell (CA)
Takai
Takano
Thompson (MS)
Tipton
Titus
Tonko
Torres
Tsongas
Van Hollen
Veasey
Vela
Velázquez
Visclosky
Walker
Walorski
Walz
Waters, Maxine
Watson Coleman
Weber (TX)
Webster (FL)
Welch
Wenstrup
Westerman
Westmoreland
Williams
Wilson (FL)
Wittman
Womack
Woodall
Yarmuth
Yoder
Yoho
Young (AK)
Young (IN)
Zeldin
Zinke

---- NOT VOTING 6 ---

Amodei
Carson (IN)
LaMalfa
Speier
Thompson (CA)
Vargas

http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2015/roll361.xml

BOEHNER VOTED 'NO'????

 

[Be Well]

that cruz supported a secret law (not this one, but the follow on TPP) that would give secret powers to the POTUS kinda did it for me. walker too.

there's no one left.

Exactly so. They just proved themselves to be regular ol' Republipukes. I will never, ever vote for either of them. Not a chance, ever.

 

[Be Well]

Keep up the pressure!!!
Ask your Representative how they voted.
The bill of the undead will revive on Tuesday/Wednesday so we still have time to find out what deals are hidden in the secret TPP bill.
SS

I called or emailed all Reps in my state (only about 6) and one, the only R (puke) voted for it. I will check the Ds.

 

[Be Well]

It is SERIOUSLY BAD JUJU to tell a sociopathic malignant narcissist "NO!"

There will be some more votes on Tuesday. If they go down in flames too (May it be so!), IMHO we may see the mental breakdown I predicted the night he was elected.... (May it be so as well!)