[CTC] Wallach || TPP Is Not Dead, Unfortunately

[Arthur Stamoulis]

HUFFINGTON POST THE BLOG
TPP Is Not Dead, Unfortunately
08/31/2016 04:31 pm ET
 Lori Wallach  <http://www.huffingtonpost.com/author/lori-wallach>Director, Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch 

The reports of the Trans-Pacific Partnership’s death have been greatly exaggerated, unfortunately.

It would great news if the pact, which would mean more power for corporations over our lives and government, and fewer good jobs for Americans, were ready to be boxed and buried. 

But more urgently, if last week’s news stories convince the growing transpartisan movement fighting the TPP to stand down, the prospects that the pact’s powerful proponents can succeed in their plan to pass it after the election will increase.

Last week Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said at the Kentucky Farm Bureau: “The current agreement...which has some serious flaws, will not be acted upon this year.” This generated a wave of press coverage declaring that there would be no lame duck vote on the TPP.

Except, McConnell has said pretty much the same thing since the final TPP text was released, as have other Republican leaders.  Plus....

Read the rest of the piece: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lori-wallach/tpp-is-not-dead-unfortuna_b_11802652.html <http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lori-wallach/tpp-is-not-dead-unfortuna_b_11802652.html>
 
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