Pelosi embraces tough questions about Obama’s trade agenda
Source: ASSOCIATED PRESS
TUESDAY, MAR 17, 2015 05:30 PM EDT
WASHINGTON (AP) President Barack Obamas bid for a new trade deal didnt get easier Tuesday when the Houses top Democrat said her caucus embraces a dozen demands that may be tough to meet.
House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi has always walked a careful line on trade. She is close to many liberals who strongly oppose new trade pacts. But she often talks of finding a path to yes, and notes that John F. Kennedy called Democrats the party of free trade.
After House Democrats privately discussed trade Tuesday, a reporter asked Pelosi if the caucus backs 12 proposals, or demands, issued earlier by Rep. Sander Levin of Michigan, who has challenged the administration on several fronts.
Generally, I would say yes, Pelosi said. Some Democrats will have other questions, she said, but Levins eight-page list is a solid block of concerns that members have. The more tightly Pelosi links herself to Levin on trade, the more worrisome it is for those seeking a new 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership, or TPP. Those supporters include Obama and many business groups and Republicans that historically support free-trade agreements.
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bvar22
(39,909 posts)Free Trade today means something MUCH different than what JFK supported.
JFK also supported Tax Cuts for the RICH!!!!
He dropped the Top Rate from 92% to 71%.
Taxing the RICH did NOT cause the economy to fail, or businesses move overseas.
In fact, the years of the 71% top rate were the best years of America.
Everything got paid for, and some people STILL got RICH.
Lets try THAT again.
GoneFishin
(5,217 posts)years to secretly weave their one-sided, corporation pandering loop-holes into the legal-ease. There will be no way to safely get it all out.
The only answer is "NO".
It's Orwellian to me that anyone pretending to be a Democrat would even touch this piece of shit.