<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;" class="">Apologies for the sloppy formatting and mile-long message on this one. Thought most would appreciate one email more than twenty. Below are statements opposing the Fast Track bill from:<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Faith Leaders</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Pride At Work</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>NRDC</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Rep. Levin</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Machinists</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Coalition for a Prosperous America</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>CWA</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Friends of the Earth</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="http://350.org" class="">350.org</a></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Global Trade Watch </div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Teamsters</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>AFL-CIO</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Sierra Club</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Rep. Doggett</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>United Steelworkers</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Democracy for America</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Food & Water Watch</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>UFCW</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Rep. Pocan</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">We’ll get these nicely formatted and into a PDF before too long. I wanted you to have them now to aid in any immediate outreach and lobbying.</div><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; " class=""><div class="">Arthur Stamoulis</div></div></span></span></div></div></div><div class=""><div class=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; " class=""><div class="">Citizens Trade Campaign</div></div></span></span></div></div><div class=""><div class=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; " class=""><div class="">(202) 494-8826</div></div></span></span></div></div></blockquote><div class=""><div apple-content-edited="true" class="">
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<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><font color="#000000" face="-webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif" class=""><b class="">FAITH LEADERS STATEMENT</b></font></div><div class=""><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple" class=""><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><u class="">Contact:</u> Elizabeth Nye, <a href="mailto:enye@columban.org" class="">
enye@columban.org</a>, 202-635-5811<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">WASHINGTON, DC—A number of faith leaders representing religious communions, denominations, and organizations across the country spoke out today to voice their concern about the newly released Trade Promotion Authority bill, or Fast
Track, which would give the president unilateral power to sign the secretive Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade agreement without a chance for debate in Congress. This legislation is deeply troubling to people of faith, who witness the impact of past free
trade negotiations on God’s people and Creation in the United States and around the world.<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">“Any ‘Fast Track’ mechanism designed to advance the Trans-Pacific Partnership would only further silence the voices of those who have been harmed by past trade agreements. The vulnerable and marginalized are our priority as a church, and
we cannot serve them when the ability for public debate is compromised. Without congressional oversight where it is due, the Trans-Pacific Partnership will surely follow in the destructive footsteps of NAFTA and CAFTA,” said Rev. J. Herbert Nelson, Director
of Presbyterian Church (USA) Office of Public Witness.<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p class=""> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Sr. Simone Campbell, SSS, Executive Director of NETWORK, A National Catholic Social Justice Lobby, said, “Fast Track is a broken and undemocratic process that closes off debate and silences the voices of people not at the negotiating table.
We know from past agreements that the adverse impacts of such agreements are not considered by those who seek to benefit greatly from their provisions. To compound that problem, Fast Track silences the voices that most need to be heard. Trade agreements need
a full discussion. They must reflect our values and support the common good.” <o:p class="">
</o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Sr. Patricia McDermott, President of the Sisters of Mercy of the Americas, said, “Opposition to the Trade Promotion Authority and the Trans-Pacific Partnership is an urgent moral issue, with grave consequences. With our commitment to persons
who are poor, especially women and girls, the Sisters of Mercy are greatly concerned about what could become a globalized race to the bottom for cheap production, with countries like Vietnam and Brunei becoming the newly exploited labor markets.”
<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" class="">“Trade agreements impact many aspects of our lives, the lives of our neighbors around the world, and the environment,” said Rev. M. Linda Jaramillo, Executive Minister, United Church of Christ Justice and Witness
Ministries</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;" class="">. “</span><span style="" class="">These potentially harmful agreements need very careful and thorough scrutiny by Congress. We urge policymakers to defeat Fast
Track legislation which would shorten and restrict the usual oversight process.” <o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" class=""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal">“Catholic social teaching calls us to ensure community participation in the democratic process. We are disappointed that once again Congress is proposing a flawed form of trade authority that allows the president to sign an agreement that
has not been fully debated. Also, the proposed trade agreement fails to take into account voices and needs of people living on the margins,” said Gerry Lee, Director of the Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" class="">Diane Randall, Executive Secretary of the Friends Committee on National Legislation, said, “</span>We support trade policies that are beneficial to all countries and peoples, especially the poorest among us. The
Friends Committee on National Legislation opposes fast track trade promotion authority for the current trade agreements being negotiated because Fast Track is a fundamentally undemocratic process that will not care for creation or vulnerable communities.”<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">“Fast Track curtails the voice of poor, whose needs should come before profit. We urge Congress to reject this legislation, which is unjust and undemocratic, and continue to stand in solidarity with the marginalized communities that have
been negatively impacted by free trade agreements in countries where Columban missionaries serve. As Pope Francis has taught us, the economy should serve the people, not the other way around,” said Scott Wright, Director of the Columban Center for Advocacy
and Outreach<span style="" class="">.” </span><o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" class=""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><i class="">###<o:p class=""></o:p></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><i class=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;" class=""> </span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><i class=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;" class="">The Interfaith Working Group on Trade and Investment includes representatives of a broad spectrum and religious institutions in the United States. We
advocate for just trade and investment policies that prioritize God’s people and Creation.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p class=""> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p class=""> =====</o:p></p></div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple" class=""><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" class="">
<b class="">Subject:</b> Pride at Work Reacts to the Introduction of "Fast Track" Trade Promotion Authority<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p class=""> </o:p></p>
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<td style="padding:11.25pt 11.25pt 11.25pt 11.25pt" class=""><p class=""><strong class="">For Immediate Release</strong><o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="">April 16, 2015<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="">Contact: Jerame Davis<br class="">
<a href="mailto:jdavis@prideatwork.org" class="">jdavis@prideatwork.org</a><o:p class=""></o:p></p><p align="center" style="text-align:center" class=""><strong class="">Pride at Work Reacts to the Introduction of "Fast Track" Trade Promotion Authority</strong><o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="">WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Senate Finance Committee chair Orin Hatch (R-UT) along with House Ways and Means Committee chair Paul Ryan (R-WI) introduced a
<a href="http://act.aflcio.org/salsa/track.jsp?v=2&c=sD1KOSAw329sw0fCJvN%2BV53dQKZOBARR" class="">
Fast Track trade bill</a> in both the Senate and House, respectively. Fast Track, also known as Trade Promotion Authority, will enable the completion of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a massive corporate giveaway that includes two nations - Brunei and
Malaysia - known to abuse and sometimes kill women and LGBT people. Pride at Work Executive Director, Jerame Davis, released the following statement of disappointment:<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="">“Corporate profit has, once again, shown to be a more powerful motivator than protecting American jobs or even basic human rights,” said Davis. “Fast Track Trade Promotion Authority is an ill-advised and outdated method of handling international trade and,
if this bill passes, it will usher in one of the worst trade deals ever conceived. Not only would Fast Track enable the speedy passage of the Trans-Pacific Partnership that will threaten American jobs, the environment, our food supply, and more, it will also
be a clear message to our friends and foes alike that the United States won't defend the basic human rights of LGBT people and women, if the price is right.<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="">“The lopsided corporate giveaways in the TPP are profound and this Fast Track bill will allow it to sail through Congress without any meaningful debate and with no way to make changes even if legislators wanted to fix some of the worst issues. Every American
who earns a paycheck should be concerned about the TPP. For LGBT people and women around the world, the problems in TPP are heightened by the inclusion of Brunei and Malaysia in the agreement. These two countries are some of the worst abusers of human rights
for women and LGBT in the world and our government is set to crawl in bed with them by signing this sweetheart trade agreement that has no end date and would make give both countries privileged trade status.<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="">“Only by rejecting Fast Track can Congress ensure that it can exercise its constitutionally mandated authority to vet and approve trade policy. Legislators must act now, by voting down Trade Promotion Authority, if they are to preserve their ability to amend
the TPP to protect American jobs, women, LGBT people, and the environment or to fix any of the other myriad mistakes in the TPP."<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="">###<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class=""><i class="">Pride at Work is the official constituency group of LGBT union members and allies fighting for workplace equality for LGBT workers. We organize mutual support between the organized labor movement in the spirit of the union movement's historic motto, "An
Injury to One is An Injury to All." Workers interested in joining Pride at Work or in launching new chapter organizing efforts, can visit
<a href="http://www.prideatwork.org/" class="">www.prideatwork.org</a> or email us at <a href="mailto:info@prideatwork.org" class="">
info@prideatwork.org</a>.</i><o:p class=""></o:p></p>
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<div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">Below is NRDC’s statement on the fast track bill. We also have an action alert up (and will blast to our Members and activists early next week):
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#1F497D" class=""><a href="https://secure.nrdconline.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=3713" class="">https://secure.nrdconline.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=3713</a>
<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D" class=""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D" class=""><a href="http://www.nrdc.org/media/2015/150416.asp" class="">http://www.nrdc.org/media/2015/150416.asp</a><o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" class=""> </span></p><p class=""><span style="font-size:10.5pt" class="">FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE <br class="">
Contact: Elizabeth Heyd, 202-289-2424, <a href="mailto:eheyd@nrdc.org" class="">
eheyd@nrdc.org</a></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class=""><strong class=""><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" class="">"Fast Track’’ Trade Bill Would Undercut Health, Environmental Safeguards</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class=""><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" class="">NRDC: Congress Should Reject the Proposal</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class=""><span style="font-size:10.5pt" class="">WASHINGTON (April 16, 2015) – Sens. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) today introduced “fast track’’ legislation that would allow President Obama to obtain expedited congressional approval
of international trade agreements such as the Trans-Pacific Partnership and the E.U.-U.S. trade agreement called Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class=""><span style="font-size:10.5pt" class="">The following is a statement by Peter Lehner, executive director of the Natural Resources Defense Council:</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class=""><span style="font-size:10.5pt" class="">“These trade agreements would allow foreign corporations to challenge our chemical safeguards, climate protections and food safety laws at special trade tribunals outside our normal legal system. Congress should reject any
fast track legislation that allows expedited approval for trade agreements that can undercut our public health and environmental safeguards.”<br class="">
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It can be found <a href="http://democrats.waysandmeans.house.gov/sites/democrats.waysandmeans.house.gov/files/LEVIN%20--%20TPA%20--%20A%20Major%20Step%20Back%20on%20TPP%20Negotiations.pdf" class="">
here</a>. <o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt" class=""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt" class="">“Unfortunately, the Hatch-Wyden-Ryan Trade Promotion Authority does not move us toward a stronger TPP agreement that will garner broad, bipartisan support in Congress,”
<b class="">Rep. Levin said in the document</b>. “TPP is not where it needs to be right now, and Hatch-Wyden-Ryan does nothing to change that. On all of the major issues in the negotiations, the negotiating objectives are obsolete or woefully inadequate. We can’t
expect to get the best deal if we are not asking for the right things. The Hatch-Wyden-Ryan TPA gives up Congressional leverage at the exact wrong time. Instead of pressing USTR to get a better agreement or signaling to our negotiating partners that Congress
will only accept a strong agreement, the Hatch-Wyden-Ryan TPA puts Congress in the back seat and greases the skids for an up-or-down vote after the fact. Real Congressional power is not at the end of the process, it is right now when the critical outstanding
issues are being negotiated.”<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p class=""> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span class="apple-style-span">###</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12.0pt" class=""> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></p>
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</div><p class=""><br class=""></p></div></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple" class=""><div class="WordSection1"><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> =====</o:p></div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple" class=""><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D" class=""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b class=""><span style="font-size:22.0pt" class="">Machinists Union President Responds to Deeply Flawed Fast Track Legislation<o:p class=""></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b class=""><span style="font-size:14.0pt" class=""> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b class=""><span style="font-size:14.0pt" class="">Washington, D.C., April 16, 2015 –</span></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" class="">
</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt" class="">International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) President Tom Buffenbarger today issued the following statement on the introduction of a Fast Track bill in the U.S. Senate:</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt" class=""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i class=""><span style="font-size:14.0pt" class="">“We are angered and deeply disappointed that the legislation introduced today repeats the same old corporate-driven approach to trade that has cost America hundreds of thousands of jobs,” said Buffenbarger. “The
unenforceable negotiating goals for the nearly completed, yet still secret Trans-Pacific Partnership will not help working families struggling with stagnant wages nor U.S. businesses besieged by foreign currency manipulation. I call upon IAM members across
America to contact their Senators and urge rejection of this deeply flawed legislation.”<o:p class=""></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt" class=""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt" class="">As the leading aerospace union in North America, IAM members proudly manufacture products that are exported to countries around the globe. The IAM strongly believes that our trade negotiations and agreements
must be open and transparent and reflect the interests of all Americans. This means enforceable labor and environmental standards, access to safe and affordable medicines, high quality food and product safety standards, as well as a rejection of the secret
trade tribunals that give multinational corporations the ability to sue sovereign governments over domestic regulations.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p class=""> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">-30-<o:p class=""></o:p></p>
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<br class=""><br class="">The Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA) was surprised to
see the introduction of a <a href="http://www.prosperousamerica.org/r?u=https%3A%2F%2Fd3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net%2Fprosperousamerica%2Fpages%2F774%2Fattachments%2Foriginal%2F1429218878%2FBipartisan_Congressional_Trade_Priorities_and_Accountability_Act_of_2015.pdf%3F1429218878&e=60899508850d7ae5ff8a80d0eada83f046b1c878&utm_source=prosperousamerica&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=150416_pr&n=2" target="_blank" class="">Senate Fast Track trade authority bill (see PDF
bill)</a> that ignores trade deficits and continues to enable modern
foreign mercantilism.<br class=""><p class="">"CPA is disappointed that the Senate Finance Committee has failed
and refused to set a new and positive American trade strategy," said
Michael Stumo, CEO of CPA. "We have already harvested the trade
deficit fruits of the existing trade agreement approach. But the
Senate trade authority continues to ignore the trade performance
failure of the recent Korea trade deal and many that came before.
After 40 straight years of trade deficits and debt, balanced trade
needs to be the new US trade goal."</p><p class="">A new "principal negotiating objective" in the Senate Fast Track
bill also explicitly endorses offshoring of our supply chains. In
text never seen in prior enacted legislation, the new bill states:</p><p style="text-align: left; padding-left: 30px;" class="">"The principal
negotiating objectives of the United States regarding trade in goods
are... to expand... the utilization of global value chains."</p><p class="">"The 'global value chains' language is Senate endorsement of
offshoring our domestic supply chains," said Stumo. "CPA members know
that modern successful producing and trading nations optimize and grow
a broad array of domestic supply chains, through clustering and other
means. We need to pursue the domestic supply chains that allow close
coordination, less inventory, short lag times, and short
transportation distances. They also enable the US to capture the
jobs, process innovation, product innovation, ancillary services, and
wealth creation at every level."</p><p class="">CPA, does however, appreciate Senator Hatch's and Wyden's inclusion
of stronger enforcement provisions in the Fast Track bill.</p><p class="">However, until the US pivots from a "gross export" to a "net
export" goal, deindustrialization, unemployment, income inequality and
economic malaise will face our workers and businesses for the
foreseeable future.</p><p class=""><em class="">The Coalition for a Prosperous America is a nonprofit,
nonpartisan organization representing the interests of 2.7 million
households through our agricultural, manufacturing and labor
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<h2 class=""><a name="story1" class="">CWA: Secret "Fast Track" Process and Legislation Shows Disdain for U.S. Workers, Communities</a></h2><p class=""><!-- Sharing Begin --></p><p class=""><br class=""></p>
<!-- Sharing End--><div class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="">Washington, D.C. – The Communications Workers of America (CWA) issued the following statement on the introduction of "fast track," also known as Trade Promotion Authority (TPA), in the U.S. Senate:</p><p style="margin-left: 40px;" class="">The "Fast Track," or TPA, legislation introduced today, and in fact, the entire process surrounding its inception, continues the lack of transparency and disdain for U.S. workers and communities that has been the hallmark of the past five years of negotiations of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).</p><p style="margin-left: 40px;" class="">If this Fast Track bill were to be approved, Senators and Representatives would be agreeing to rubber stamp not only the TPP, which has been negotiated in almost total secrecy, but any other trade deal proposed over the next few years. President Obama has had Fast Track authority for the Colombia, Panama and Korea trade deals. This proposed legislation provides Fast Track for the next president.</p><p style="margin-left: 40px;" class="">"We need to put the brakes on Fast Track or Trade Promotion Authority. Just like the TPP itself, there has been no transparency around TPA. We've had the start of a Senate hearing even before a bill was finalized and introduced. Now, that legislation is headed to mark up and a floor vote in just days. TPA pretends to be about trade, but in reality it is about protecting corporate profits above all else and defining our national security in terms of giving away our jobs, depressing our wages and then rewarding the responsible multinational corporations, often U.S. based, with guaranteed profits in the nations where they invest," said CWA President Larry Cohen.</p><p style="margin-left: 40px;" class="">The proposed Fast Track bill fails all the tests that Senator Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) said were critical: Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA), transparency, action to combat currency manipulation, real enforcement of environmental and worker standards, and procedures to enable Congress "to right the ship if trade negotiators get off course," as Wyden put it. Since this legislation requires a supermajority, or 60 votes, for the Senate to remove the TPP or any subsequent deal from Fast Track consideration, this provision is virtually meaningless.</p><p style="margin-left: 40px;" class="">The U.S. is the only nation among the 12 TPP countries that requires elected representatives to give up their constitutional responsibility to review and amend major trade deals through a Fast Track process. We call on Congress to reject this flawed legislation.</p>
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<h1 class=""><span style="font-size:18.0pt" class="">Friends of the Earth news release<o:p class=""></o:p></span></h1>
<h1 class="">Hatch, Wyden introduce same old Fast Track model<o:p class=""></o:p></h1><p class="date">Posted Apr. 16, 2015 / Posted by: Kate Colwell <o:p class=""></o:p></p>
<h2 class="">Plan would close the hatch on democracy and widen income inequality<o:p class=""></o:p></h2><p class=""><strong class="">WASHINGTON, D.C. –</strong> Senators Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), introduced a plan to grant expedited Executive authority on trade deals. Called “Fast Track,” the plan announced today, is almost identical to the Fast Track bill rejected
by Congress and the public in 2014. If approved, Fast Track would expedite congressional approval of two massive trade deals without amendment or proper consideration. The Trans Atlantic and Trans Pacific trade agreements, both of which are currently under
negotiation by the Obama administration, would allow big oil companies and Wall Street financiers to sue for millions in compensation for the cost of complying with environmental and other regulations. More generally, the Atlantic and Pacific trade deals would
trump sensible safeguards related to food safety, toxic chemicals, and global warming. If Fast Track is approved, these trade deals could be rammed through Congress.<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="">The Hatch-Wyden bill would grant the executive branch powers the Constitution’s framers intended for Congress to exercise, including:<o:p class=""></o:p></p>
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The power to ban any amendments to a trade agreement.<o:p class=""></o:p></li></ul><p class="">Friends of the Earth President Erich Pica offers the following statement on the introduction of the Hatch–Wyden bill for trade promotion authority:<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="">This is the latest in a series of blatant moves which reveal that Congressional Republican leadership represents only the will of the richest one percent of individuals, big business and their donors, not we the people. Amid a litany of giveaways to the
super rich, and aggressive assault on bedrock environmental laws and unabashed disdain for unions and workers, this plan is a deal in name only.<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="">The Hatch–Wyden Fast Track bill is the same old model of closed door trade promotion legislation. Congress must not give away its constitutional authority and facilitate the ratification of environmentally destructive trade plans like the Trans Pacific Partnership
trade agreement. There is no excuse for Senator Wyden, given widespread opposition to the bill within his home state of Oregon, to sell out the environment and workers in this way.<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="">Fast tracking these powers allows Congress to abdicate its responsibility, effectively shutting the hatch on democracy and widening income inequality.<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p align="center" style="text-align:center" class="">###<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class=""><strong class="">Expert contact:</strong> Bill Waren, (202) 222-0746, <a href="mailto:wwaren@foe.org" class="">
wwaren@foe.org<span style="color:blue" class=""><br class="">
</span></a><strong class="">Communications contact: </strong>EA Dyson, (202), 222-0730, <a href="mailto:edyson@foe.org" class="">
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I hope you like it!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Jason</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">press statement: <a href="http://350.org/press-release/350-responds-to-introduction-of-tpp-fast-track-legislation/" class="">http://350.org/press-release/350-responds-to-introduction-of-tpp-fast-track-legislation/</a></div><div class="">tweets: <a href="https://twitter.com/350" class="">https://twitter.com/350</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><div dir="ltr" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br class="">From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Duncan Meisel - <a href="http://350.org/" class="">350.org</a></b> <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:350@350.org" class="">350@350.org</a>></span><br class="">Date: Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 3:32 PM<br class="">Subject: [Final mailing 6573] [Count 60000] The Trans-Pacific Partnership:<br class="">To: <a href="mailto:jason@350.org" class="">jason@350.org</a><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><div class=""><div style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:21px" class=""><p class="">Friends,</p><p class="">The Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement, a massive new trade deal under negotiation now, is the fossil fuel industry's latest tool to shut down climate action -- and today legislation was introduced in Congress that could make it law.</p><p class=""><strong class="">Why would a trade agreement make it harder to fix climate change? Here's the shortest, simplest explanation:</strong></p><p class=""><a href="http://act.350.org/go/7400?ak_proof=1&t=1&akid=6573.703769.B3nLt_" target="_blank" class=""><img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.350.org/images/TPP_Fast_Track_Meme_short-01_copy.jpg" alt="" width="601" height="429" class=""></a></p><p class=""><strong class="">Leaked text from the deal shows that the TPP, if signed into law, would give foreign fossil fuel corporations the right to sue city, state and national governments if climate action hurts their profits.</strong></p><p class="">It’s an enormous corporate power grab: any time we took action to keep carbon in the ground -- like by banning fracking, or stopping a pipeline, or putting a price on carbon pollution -- the fossil fuel industry could sue for the right to dig it right back out and sell it.</p><p class=""><strong class="">The good news is that this is a plan we can stop. Today, Congress introduced a bill that would allow the TPP to be signed into law. This legislation, called Fast Track, faces a close vote -- if enough Members of Congress come out against this plan in the next few weeks, TPP stops in its tracks.</strong></p><p class="">Today we're calling on all our members of Congress to stand up to the TPP and vote no on Fast Track. <strong class="">Can you send a message to your members of Congress now to stop the TPP?</strong></p><p class=""><strong class=""><a href="http://act.350.org/go/7400?ak_proof=1&t=2&akid=6573.703769.B3nLt_" target="_blank" class="">Click here to send a message to your representatives now: the climate movement opposes the Trans-Pacific Partnership.</a></strong></p><p class="">The Trans-Pacific Partnership is being negotiated in secret because it is such a bad idea, and the corporations behind it are hoping it moves forward without too many people noticing. If our representatives know we're watching, they're much less likely to get behind this thing.</p><p class="">TPP could also be used to attack worker's rights, and so many other things that matter. For instance, if Illinois finally raises the minimum wage to $15, multinational corporations could sue the state and make taxpayers pay for lost profit. Every major organization fighting for economic justice for workers opposes it.</p><p class=""><strong class="">There are other ridiculous parts of the TPP. One section would end all environmental reviews of fracked gas export facilities, others would accelerate attacks on workers’ rights to organize.</strong></p><p class="">And if TPP goes through, all of these bad ideas become the new law of the land.</p><p class="">For the past few weeks, hundreds of students and their allies have been marching, rallying and risking arrest to divest their schools from fossil fuels. They're doing it because digging up and burning as much fossil fuel as possible is wrong, and we need to keep carbon in the ground.</p><p class="">The TPP would make that job so much harder by putting us all on the hook to bail out Big Oil when climate action hits their bottom line. <strong class="">It’s bad for every worker struggling to make ends meet, and it’s bad for the climate. Let's tell Congress to put a stop to this bad idea before it gets started. <a href="http://act.350.org/go/7400?ak_proof=1&t=3&akid=6573.703769.B3nLt_" target="_blank" class="">Click here to send a message now</a>.</strong></p><p class="">Yours in action,</p><p class="">Duncan</p><p class=""><span style="text-decoration:underline" class="">Sources:</span></p><p class="">"The Trans-Pacific Partnership clause everyone should oppose" Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Washington Post, Feb. 25th 2015. <br class=""><a href="http://act.350.org/go/7415?ak_proof=1&t=4&akid=6573.703769.B3nLt_" target="_blank" class="">www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/kill-the-dispute-settlement-language-in-the-trans-pacific-partnership/2015/02/25/ec7705a2-bd1e-11e4-b274-e5209a3bc9a9_story.html</a></p><p class="">"Raw Deal: How the TPP Could Threaten our Climate" The Sierra Club, 2015 [PDF]<br class=""><a href="http://act.350.org/go/7416?ak_proof=1&t=5&akid=6573.703769.B3nLt_" target="_blank" class="">www.sierraclub.org/sites/www.sierraclub.org/files/trade_downloads_raw-deal-report.pdf</a></p><p class="">"How about a ‘not-so-fast' track for the Trans-Pacific Partnership?" John Fullerton, The Guardian, December 19th, 2015<br class=""><a href="http://act.350.org/go/7417?ak_proof=1&t=6&akid=6573.703769.B3nLt_" target="_blank" class="">www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2014/dec/19/trans-pacific-partnership-tpp-trade-agreement-climate-treaty</a></p><img src="http://act.350.org/o.gif?akid=6573.703769.B3nLt_&ak_proof=1" class=""><hr class=""><p class=""><a href="http://350.org/?akid=6573.703769.B3nLt_" target="_blank" style="font-weight:bold" class="">350.org</a> is building a global climate movement. <a href="https://act.350.org/donate/build/?akid=6573.703769.B3nLt_" target="_blank" style="font-weight:bold" class="">Become a sustaining donor to keep this movement strong and growing.</a></p><div class=""><p style="font-size:11px" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 1.4;" class=""> =====</span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple" class=""><div class="WordSection1"><div class=""><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in" class=""><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"" class="">
<b class="">Subject:</b> Statement on Fast Track bill <o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
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</div><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p class=""> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u class=""><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" class="">For Immediate Release</span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" class="">:
<u class="">Contact</u>: Symone Sanders (202) 454-5108<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" class="">April 15, 2015 </span><a href="mailto:ssanders@citizen.org" class=""><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" class="">ssanders@citizen.org</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" class="">
<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" class=""> </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b class=""><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" class="">Fast Track Introduced: Hatch Bill Would Revive Controversial 2002 Mechanism That Faces Broad Congressional, Public Opposition
<o:p class=""></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" class=""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b class=""><i class=""><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" class="">Statement of Lori Wallach, Director, Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch<o:p class=""></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" class=""> </span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.25in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" class="">The Fast Track bill introduced today would revive the old unacceptable Fast Track process. It would delegate away Congress’ constitutional trade authority and give blank-check
powers to whoever may be president during the next three to six years for any agreements he or she may pursue. The bill does not require negotiators to actually meet Congress’ negotiating objectives in order to obtain the Fast Track privileges, making the
bill’s negotiating objectives entirely unenforceable.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.25in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto">
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" class="">Instead of establishing a new “exit ramp,” the bill includes the same impossible conditions from past Fast Track bills that make the mechanism to remove an agreement from
Fast Track unusable. The bill’s only new feature in this respect is a new procedure that would only be usable
<i class="">after an agreement was already signed and entered</i> into that would require approval by 60 Senators to take a pact off of Fast Track consideration, even though a simple majority “no” vote in the Senate would have the same effect on an agreement. In contrast,
the 1988 Fast Track empowered either the Ways and Means or the Finance committees to vote by simple majority to remove the pact from Fast Track consideration with no additional floor votes required and such a disapproval action was authorized
<i class="">before</i> a president could sign and enter into a trade agreement.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.25in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto">
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" class="">Fast Track for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) would make it easier for corporations to offshore American jobs, would undermine our wages by forcing Americans to compete
with Vietnamese workers making less than 60 cents an hour and would expose our consumer and environmental safeguards to attack by foreign corporations in extra-judicial tribunals<span class="MsoHyperlink">.</span><b class="">
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" class="">Even though the TPP is almost complete, and the Obama administration dismissed bicameral, bipartisan majority demands that the TPP include disciplines against currency cheating,
Congress is now being asked to delegate away its constitutional trade authority over the TPP.
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" class="">This is almost identical to the Fast Track bill that was dead on arrival in the House last year. We don’t see it passing. Congress has allowed Fast Track to go into effect
only for five of the past 21 years (2002-2007).<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p class=""> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p class=""> </o:p></p></div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple" class=""><div class="WordSection1"><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> =====</o:p></div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><b class="" style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 1.4;">Subject:</b><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 1.4;" class=""> Hoffa: Congress is Facing its Last Call to Stand Up for Fair Trade</span></div><div class=""><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple" class=""><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p class=""> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-p-hoffa/congress-is-facing-its-la_b_7042722.html" class="">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-p-hoffa/congress-is-facing-its-la_b_7042722.html</a><o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p class=""> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:-9.0pt"><img border="0" width="720" height="135" id="Picture_x0020_1" alt="PressReleaseMast" class="" apple-inline="yes" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:image003.jpg@01D07859.16E14970"><o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" class=""> </span></p>
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</span><p class="MsoNormal"><b class=""><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" class="">For Immediate Release Contact:<o:p class=""></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b class=""><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" class="">April 16, 2015 Galen Munroe, (202) 624-6911<o:p class=""></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b class=""><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" class="">
<a href="mailto:gmunroe@teamster.org" class="">gmunroe@teamster.org</a> <o:p class=""></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b class=""><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" class="">
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<h1 style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt" class=""><span style="font-size:11.0pt" class="">Teamsters General President Says Workers Shouldn’t Be In The Dark On Trade Deals<o:p class=""></o:p></span></h1><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" class=""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" class="">(WASHINGTON) – The following is the official statement of Teamsters General President Jim Hoffa in response to the introduction today in Congress of legislation that would allow Congress to
give a quick up-or-down vote to trade agreements like the 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership currently being negotiated with no chance to amend them.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" class=""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" class="">“Leaders in the House and Senate, buoyed by their friends in big business, are moving forward with pushing fast-track trade promotion legislation that would allow secret trade pacts to sail
through Congress with no chance to alter them. That’s bad for American workers as well as their families.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" class=""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" class="">“Fast track would give negotiators involved with crafting the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) free reign to promote the corporate agenda over the well-being of ordinary citizens. Here in the
U.S., thousands of jobs would be shipped overseas to places like Vietnam that pay workers less than $3 a day. It would be a continuation of the gutting of the middle class that began under NAFTA.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" class=""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" class="">“For those fortunate enough to keep their jobs, however, there is still reason for concern. They would be inundated with substandard food and products from foreign shores that would jeopardize
their health and safety. Then there is the concern of non-American corporations suing to overturn U.S. law so they can sell their products here and stick taxpayers with their legal settlement tab to boot.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" class=""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" class="">“We see firsthand the devastating impact that free trade agreements, like the South Korea trade deal, have on American workers and our economy. The South Korea agreement had its third anniversary
recently, but this was little cause for celebration. This trade deal resulted in the loss of 84,000 good U.S. jobs and caused the trade deficit to soar by 85 percent.
<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" class=""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" class="">“Americans oppose the use of fast track to pass the TPP, which threatens jobs, wages, food safety and environmental protections. But they will be forced to endure it if this same-old trade
vehicle is ultimately approved.”<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" class=""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" class="">Founded in 1903, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters represents 1.4 million hardworking men and women throughout the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico. Visit
<a href="http://www.teamster.org/" class="">www.teamster.org</a> for more information. Follow us on Twitter @Teamsters and “like” us on Facebook at
<a href="http://www.facebook.com/teamsters" class="">www.facebook.com/teamsters</a>.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" class=""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b class=""><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" class="">-30-</span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p class=""> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p class=""> </o:p></p></div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple" class=""><div class="WordSection1"><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> =====</o:p></div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">AFL-CIO Statement Against Fast Track</b><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">Date: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">April 16, 2015 at 2:43:20 PM EDT<br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">Reply-To: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Sean Savett <<a href="mailto:Ssavett@aflcio.org" class="">Ssavett@aflcio.org</a>><br class=""></span></div><br class=""><div class="">
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</span></b><em class=""><span style="font-size:13.5pt" class="">April 16, 2015</span></em><o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class=""><span style="font-size:13.5pt" class="">“At a time when workers all over the country are standing up for higher wages, Congress is considering legislation that will speed through corporate-driven trade deals. For decades, we’ve seen how fast-tracked trade deals devastated
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<td class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span class=""><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;" class="">FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span class=""><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;" class="">Thursday, April 16, 2015</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span class=""><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;" class="">Contact: Dan Byrnes, <a href="tel:202-495-3039" value="+12024953039" target="_blank" class="">202-495-3039</a> or <a href="mailto:daniel.byrnes@sierraclub.org" target="_blank" class="">daniel.byrnes@sierraclub.org</a></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><a href="http://sierraclub.pr-optout.com/Tracking.aspx?Data=HHL%3d8471%408-%3eLCE5%3a2%3c5%3d%26SDG%3c90%3a.&RE=MC&RI=4227984&Preview=False&DistributionActionID=20329&Action=Follow+Link" target="_blank" class=""><span class=""><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;" class="">View Sierra Club Pressroom</span></span></a></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span class=""><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;" class="">Sierra Club: “Fast-track bill is toxic”</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span class=""><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;" class="">Legislation would rush trade deals that harm the environment through Congress</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span class=""><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;" class="">WASHINGTON, DC</span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;" class=""> - Today, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and House Ways and Means Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) introduced legislation that would grant “fast track” authority for trade deals including the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). If this legislation is approved by Congress, the President would be able to send already signed trade pacts to Congress for straight up-or-down votes -- with no room for amendments and limited floor debate.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span class=""><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" class="">This legislation will face stiff opposition from environmental organizations, among others in a large coalition opposing fast tracking the environmentally-destructive TPP. In January, more than 40 top environmental groups </span><a href="http://sierraclub.pr-optout.com/Tracking.aspx?Data=HHL%3d8471%408-%3eLCE5%3a2%3c5%3d%26SDG%3c90%3a.&RE=MC&RI=4227984&Preview=False&DistributionActionID=20328&Action=Follow+Link" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank" class=""><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#1155cc;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" class="">sent a letter</span></a><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" class=""> to Congress denouncing fast track. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span class=""><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;" class="">In response, Sierra Club Executive Director Michael Brune issued the following statement:</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span class=""><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;" class="">“This fast-track bill is toxic for Congress and for our air, water, and climate. We’ve seen this all before. </span><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent" class="">This bill replicates </span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;" class="">an old, failed model of trade authority that rushes deals through Congress and strips out the vital protections and oversight that ensure trade pacts benefit American communities, workers, and the environment. Americans who care about clean air and clean water won’t support a bill that takes away the ability of those we elected to protect our basic needs. Members of Congress need to carefully evaluate the costs and consequences of trade deals on our economy and environment -- not to haphazardly push pacts over the finish line. That’s why we are calling on members of Congress to take back the reins on trade and toss aside the failed fast track model.”</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span class=""><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;" class="">###</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span class=""><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;" class="">About the Sierra Club</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span class=""><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;" class="">The Sierra Club is America’s largest and most influential grassroots environmental organization, with more than 2.1 million members and supporters nationwide. In addition to creating opportunities for people of all ages, levels and locations to have meaningful outdoor experiences, the Sierra Club works to safeguard the health of our communities, protect wildlife, and preserve our remaining wild places through grassroots activism, public education, lobbying, and litigation. 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16, 2015</span><span class="">
<br class=""></span><span class="">
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</div><div style="margin: 0pt;" class=""><span class="">John English</span>
</div><div style="margin: 0pt;" class=""><span class="">Program Associate</span>
</div><div style="margin: 0pt;" class=""><span class="">Citizens Trade
Campaign</span>
</div><div style="margin: 0pt;" class=""><span class="">PO Box 77077</span>
</div><div style="margin: 0pt;" class=""><span class="">Washington,
D.C. 20013</span>
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</p><div style="margin: 0pt;" class=""><span class="">Dear John:</span>
</div><p style="margin-left:0pt; margin-right:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; " class=""><span class=""> </span>
</p><div style="margin: 0pt;" class=""><span class="">Earlier today,
Senate Republican Orrin Hatch and </span><span class="">House </span><span class="">Republican Congressman Paul
Ryan introduced the so-called "Trade Promotion Authority" to fast track the Trans-Pacific Partnership
and other proposed trade agreements, including one with the European Union. </span>
</div><p style="margin-left:0pt; margin-right:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; " class=""><span class=""> </span>
</p><div style="margin: 0pt;" class=""><span class="">While I have
voted for many trade agreements, I do not believe that Congress should relinquish its trade oversight
authority. This really is a fast track--seeking to railroad the Trans-Pacific Partnership through while
USTR hides from Congress the most important details. By removing the congressional steering wheel and
brake, this fast track bill derails a full debate and restricts meaningful access to secret trade deals.</span><span class=""> </span><span class="">
This fast track is the wrong track.</span>
</div><p style="margin-left:0pt; margin-right:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; " class=""><span class=""> </span>
</p><div style="margin: 0pt;" class=""><span class="">A wide coalition
of gr</span><span class="">oups including the Sierra Club and the AFL-CIO </span><span class="">all oppose this legislation.
I expect Ways and Means, on which I serve, as well as the Senate Finance Committee to consider this legislation
as soon as next week. Senate Finance Democrats issued a statement, which I've included below, protesting
the fast tracking of the so called "fast track" bill.</span>
</div><p style="margin-left:0pt; margin-right:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; " class=""><span class=""> </span>
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Sincerely,<br class="">
Lloyd Doggett
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Finance Committee Dems Issue Joint Statement During Hearing on Trade</span></strong><strong class=""> </strong>
</div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"" class="">WASHINGTON, D.C. — As the
Senate Finance Committee holds a hearing examining Trade Promotion Authority, Sens. Bob Menendez, Charles
E. Schumer (D-NY), Debbie Stabenow (D-MI), Ben Cardin (D-MD), Sherrod Brown (D-OH), and Bob Casey (D-PA)
issued the following joint statement:</span>
</div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"" class="">“With millions of jobs on
the line, American workers and manufacturers deserve more than a hastily scheduled hearing without an
underlying bill. Congress should undergo a thorough and deliberative committee process for debating trade
agreements that account for 40 percent of our world’s GDP. And we should be debating a bill that
has seen the light of day and contains strong provisions to protect American workers against illegal
trade practices like currency manipulation.”</span>
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<o:p class=""></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" class=""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b class=""><i class=""><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" class="">Statement of Lori Wallach, Director, Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch<o:p class=""></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" class=""> </span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.25in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" class="">The Fast Track bill introduced today would revive the old unacceptable Fast Track process. It would delegate away Congress’ constitutional trade authority and give blank-check
powers to whoever may be president during the next three to six years for any agreements he or she may pursue. The bill does not require negotiators to actually meet Congress’ negotiating objectives in order to obtain the Fast Track privileges, making the
bill’s negotiating objectives entirely unenforceable.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.25in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" class=""> </span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:.25in;mso-add-space:auto">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" class="">Instead of establishing a new “exit ramp,” the bill includes the same impossible conditions from past Fast Track bills that make the mechanism to remove an agreement from
Fast Track unusable. The bill’s only new feature in this respect is a new procedure that would only be usable
<i class="">after an agreement was already signed and entered</i> into that would require approval by 60 Senators to take a pact off of Fast Track consideration, even though a simple majority “no” vote in the Senate would have the same effect on an agreement. In contrast,
the 1988 Fast Track empowered either the Ways and Means or the Finance committees to vote by simple majority to remove the pact from Fast Track consideration with no additional floor votes required and such a disapproval action was authorized
<i class="">before</i> a president could sign and enter into a trade agreement.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.25in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto">
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" class="">Fast Track for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) would make it easier for corporations to offshore American jobs, would undermine our wages by forcing Americans to compete
with Vietnamese workers making less than 60 cents an hour and would expose our consumer and environmental safeguards to attack by foreign corporations in extra-judicial tribunals<span class="MsoHyperlink">.</span><b class="">
</b><o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" class=""> </span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.25in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" class="">Even though the TPP is almost complete, and the Obama administration dismissed bicameral, bipartisan majority demands that the TPP include disciplines against currency cheating,
Congress is now being asked to delegate away its constitutional trade authority over the TPP.
<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" class=""> </span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.25in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" class="">This is almost identical to the Fast Track bill that was dead on arrival in the House last year. We don’t see it passing. Congress has allowed Fast Track to go into effect
only for five of the past 21 years (2002-2007).<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p class=""> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 1.4;" class=""> =====</span></p></div></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">USW statement in opposition to Fast Track</b><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""><div class="">
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<a href="mailto:wranick@usw.org" class="">wranick@usw.org</a><o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"> Gary Hubbard (202) 256-8125<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:115%"><b class=""><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%" class="">
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Paul Ryan to provide the President fast track trade negotiating authority. <o:p class="">
</o:p></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><o:p class=""> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%">“Today’s fast track bill will only continue outmoded trade policies that have decimated American manufacturing with more than 60,000 shuttered factories and millions of lost jobs. It’s time for a new trade policy,
not more of the same.<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><o:p class=""> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%">“The USW is not against trade, but unfortunately the history of trade agreements is clear: I don’t know anyone who can name an agreement passed under fast track that has resulted in a net gain of jobs for working
Americans. The fast track bill introduced today fails to ensure that future trade agreements will produce the results that will enhance wages and job security, and address income inequality.<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><o:p class=""> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%">“Congress has included negotiating objectives in past fast track authority legislation requiring trade deficit reduction, adequate attention to workers’ rights, provisions to address unfair tax rebate policies and
other provisions that were not achieved in final trade agreements. New negotiating objectives, such as addressing currency manipulation, are unlikely to be fulfilled even though it is included as an objective in a bill.
<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><o:p class=""> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%">“Fast track will only perpetuate existing trade policies which are in dramatic need of change. Providing expedited procedures and preferential treatment for trade agreements that don’t provide the results America
needs is unacceptable. A good trade agreement doesn’t need the protection of fast track -- it would have the strong support of the American people.<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><o:p class=""> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%">“For Steelworkers, trade isn’t an academic or political issue; it’s about kitchen table economics: Will our members be able to keep their jobs and put food on their tables, pay their bills, put their kids through
college and have a safe and secure retirement? We have had to spend far too much time, energy and resources fighting to have existing trade agreements enforced. Fast track will only keep the current system in place and that’s unacceptable.”<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><i class=""> </i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><i class="">The USW represents 850,000 workers in North America employed among industries that include metals, rubber, chemicals, paper, oil refining, plus the service and public sectors. For more information:
<a href="http://www.usw.org/" class="">http://www.usw.org</a><o:p class=""></o:p></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><o:p class=""> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:115%"><b class=""># # #<o:p class=""></o:p></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:115%"><b class=""> </b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:115%"><b class=""> </b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:115%"><b class=""> </b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: left; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 1.4;" class=""> =====</span></p></div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br class="">From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Neil Sroka</b> <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:nsroka@democracyforamerica.com" class="">nsroka@democracyforamerica.com</a>></span><br class="">Date: Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 2:45 PM<br class="">Subject: DFA on FAST TRACK: Like Iraq War vote, support “for Fast Track, TPP… will never be forgotten”<br class="">To: <a href="mailto:nsroka@democracyforamerica.com" class="">nsroka@democracyforamerica.com</a><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><div class=""><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt" class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" class="">The NEW YORK TIMES just reported that </span><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/17/business/obama-trade-legislation-fast-track-authority-trans-pacific-partnership.html" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none" class=""><span style="font-family:Arial;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" class="">a deal on Fast Track has been reached in the U.S. Senate</span></a><span style="font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" class="">.</span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" class=""> </p><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" class="">Statement from Jim Dean, Chair of Democracy for America, calling on Senate Democrats to reject the new deal on Fast Track for the TPP:</span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" class=""> </p><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 30pt;" class=""><span style="font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" class="">"In poll after poll and call after call, the American people have been extremely clear in their opposition to Fast Track and the job-killing, NAFTA-style Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement.</span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:30pt" class=""> </p><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 30pt;" class=""><span style="font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" class="">"Democrats in the U.S. Senate now must choose whether they stand with their constituents who oppose Fast Track or the army of corporate lobbyists and lawyers who see it as the first step towards a shadowy trade deal that will make it easier to sell tainted food in our supermarkets, sue governments in secret courts for passing laws they don't like, and pay foreign workers as little as 56 cents an hour.</span><br class=""> </div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 30pt;" class=""><span style="font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" class="">"With the views of the American people so clear, there is simply no excuse for any Democrat who votes for Fast Track. <span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,0)" class="">Like a vote for the Iraq War or statements of support for the Social Security-cutting Bowles-Simpson plan, a vote for Fast Track and the TPP will never be forgotten and will haunt members of Congress for years to come.</span>”</span><span style="font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" class="">-- Jim Dean, Chair, Democracy for America</span><br class=""> </div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" class="">Information about Democracy for America and the fight against Fast Track and the TPP:</span></div><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" class=""><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;margin-left:15px" class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><a href="http://democracyforamerica.com/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none" class=""><span style="text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" class="">Democracy for America</span></a><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""> (DFA) has been battling Fast Track and the TPP since early 2014, originally </span><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/09/trans-pacific-partnership-obama-boehner_n_4570837.html" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none" class=""><span style="text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" class="">pushing against Rep. Ron Kind's effort to promote the trade deal</span></a><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""> within the House Democratic caucus.</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;margin-left:15px" class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">In 2015, DFA has released </span><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/19/ron-wyden-fast-track-trade-deal_n_6714748.html" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none" class=""><span style="text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" class="">polling showing the reelection risks Oregon Senator Ron Wyden would face</span></a><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""> for his work on Fast Track, and reported that </span><a href="http://thehill.com/policy/finance/237020-left-threatens-to-oust-key-dem-over-trade" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none" class=""><span style="text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" class="">93% of DFA members in Oregon said Wyden should face a primar</span></a><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">y if he worked with Republicans to pass the trade deal.</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;margin-left:15px" class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Last week, DFA released polling showing just how</span><a href="http://www.politico.com/morningtrade/0415/morningtrade17843.html?ml=tl_8_b" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none" class=""><span style="text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" class=""> in danger Republican Senator Rob Portman would be in his Ohio Senate race</span></a><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""> if he voted with his party on Fast Track and the TPP. </span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;margin-left:15px" class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" class="">Founded in 2004, DFA is a people-powered PAC with 1 million members who have raised and contributed more than $32.7 million and made more than 10.1 million volunteer calls to help successfully elect 831 progressive candidates nationwide.</span></div></li></ul><p class="">Please let me know if you have any questions.</p><p class="">Neil</p><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small" class=""><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 1.4;" class=""> =====</span></div></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class=""><br class=""><div class="">
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<![endif]--><!--StartFragment--><div class="MsoNormal">April 16, 2015<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b class=""><span style="font-size:14.0pt" class="">FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE <o:p class="">
</o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b class=""><span style="font-size:14.0pt" class=""> </span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b class="">Contact: Kate Fried, Food & Water Watch, (202) 683-4905, <a href="mailto:kfried@fwwatch.org" class="">kfried@fwwatch.org</a><o:p class=""></o:p></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b class=""><span style="font-size:14.0pt" class=""> </span></b></div><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b class=""><span style="font-size:14.0pt" class="">Same Old Fast Track Would Unravel Consumer Protections<o:p class=""></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><strong class=""><i class="">Trade deals will weaken consumer protections and increase imports of potentially risky food<o:p class=""></o:p></i></strong></p><div class="MsoNormal"><strong class=""><i class=""><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:
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font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold" class="">WASHINGTON—Today, Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT), Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) introduced their Fast Track trade
promotion legislation (The Bipartisan Congressional Trade Priorities and Accountability Act of 2015, TPA-2015) that includes provisions that would weaken consumer protections, undermine U.S. food safety standards and prevent commonsense food labeling. The
legislation is nearly identical to the measure Senator Hatch introduced last year that failed to garner Congressional approval. It replicates the provisions of Fast Track bills from bygone eras (in 1991 and 2002 in the buildup to NAFTA and CAFTA) and deprives
Congress of its constitutionally mandated role in setting U.S. policy in a more complex international commercial landscape.
<o:p class=""></o:p></span></strong></div><div class="MsoNormal"><strong class=""><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
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font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold" class="">“Congress should reject this retrograde Fast Track trade legislation that is designed to usher in the secret Trans-Pacific Partnership
– a trade deal that is a raw deal for consumers,” said Wenonah Hauter, executive director of Food & Water Watch. “The fine print in Fast Track contains an all-out attack on America’s consumer protection and food safety laws.”<o:p class=""></o:p></span></strong></div><div class="MsoNormal"><strong class=""><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold" class=""> </span></strong></div><div class="MsoNormal"><strong class=""><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold" class="">The legislation dismisses the importance of food safety and consumer protection in trade negotiations, although unsafe imported
foods and products have deluged consumers over the past twenty years of corporate-driven globalization. The bill specifically only allows trade negotiators to “take into account” (not “obtain” or “ensure”) the “legitimate health or safety [and] consumer interests,”
relegating these safeguards to second class status behind mandatory objectives for business interests and allowing unelected trade negotiators to decide which U.S. consumer protections are “legitimate” (Sec. 2(a)(13)).<o:p class=""></o:p></span></strong></div><div class="MsoNormal"><strong class=""><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold" class=""> </span></strong></div><div class="MsoNormal"><strong class=""><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold" class="">“Fast Track allows U.S. trade negotiators to trade away vital consumer safeguards to win giveaways and protections for big business
in the TPP or other trade deals,” said Hauter. “The safety of American consumers is up for sale under Fast Track.”<o:p class=""></o:p></span></strong></div><div class="MsoNormal"><strong class=""><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold" class=""> </span></strong></div><div class="MsoNormal"><strong class=""><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold" class="">Several provisions of the Fast Track bill would
</span></strong>erode food safety oversight for imported food and threaten sensible food labels. Fast Track requires the United States to approve the food safety systems of exporting countries even when domestic oversight is stronger (Sec. 2(b)(3)(A)(ii)).
This forced “equivalence” of foreign food safety systems can expose consumers to imported foodborne hazards and it is how the U.S. imported 2.5 million pounds of
<i class="">E. coli</i> tainted ground beef from a Canadian plant that replaced most of its government safety inspectors with its own employees. Fast Track also identifies some consumer labels as “unjustified trade restrictions” that would be targeted for elimination
(Sec. 2(b)(3)(I)(ii)). <o:p class=""></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal">“Consumers coast-to-coast are fighting for the right to know what is in the food they are feeding their families, but Fast Track would make it even harder to get commonsense food labels,” said Hauter.
<span style="font-family:Times;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri" class="">“This approach to trade could eliminate country of origin labeling and GMO labeling and weaken imported food inspection to satisfy the corporate interests who are writing these trade deals.”<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal">Fast Track is being pushed to seal the TPP trade deal with 11 Pacific Rim nations, but the deregulation in Fast Track and the TPP could expose consumers to more dangerous imported foods. Surging imports under free trade deals have overwhelmed
U.S. food safety inspectors at the border. For example, only about 2 percent of the 5.4 billion pounds of imported fish and seafood are inspected. Fish farmers in TPP nations Vietnam and Malaysia often use veterinary drugs and fungicides that are banned in
the United States because the residues can cause cancer, allergic reactions and contribute to the development of antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal">“The TPP will bring a tidal wave of dangerous fish imports that will swamp the border inspectors that cannot keep up with the tainted aquaculture imports today,” said Hauter. “Congress must reject the Fast Track bill that is designed to
seal the deal on TPP.”<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><strong class=""><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
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mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#666666" class="">Food & Water Watch works to ensure the food, water and fish we consume is safe, accessible and sustainable. So we can all enjoy
and trust in what we eat and drink, we help people take charge of where their food comes from, keep clean, affordable, public tap water flowing freely to our homes, protect the environmental quality of oceans, force government to do its job protecting citizens,
and educate about the importance of keeping shared resources under public control.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:Times;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:
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Contact Tim Schlittner, 202-262-3570, <a href="mailto:tschlittner@ufcw.org" class=""><span style="color:blue" class="">tschlittner@ufcw.org</span></a><b class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;text-align:center;line-height:115%">
<b class=""><span style="font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">UFCW President Perrone: We are Determined to See Fast Track Defeated</span></b><b class=""><span style="font-size:13.0pt;line-height:115%" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><b class=""><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">WASHINGTON, D.C.</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">—<b class="">Marc Perrone</b>, International President
of the 1.3 million member <b class=""><a href="http://www.ufcw.org/" class=""><span style="color:blue" class="">United Food and Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW)</span></a></b>, today released the following statement in response to the agreement reached on trade promotion
authority or fast track.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">“The TPP and fast track are not just wrong for America, they will hurt every hard-working family. The fact that Democrats and Republicans
support TPP is a bipartisan insult to the millions of men and women struggling to find good jobs and earn a decent living.
<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">Make no mistake, we are determined to see this legislation defeated. Our members will mobilize across the United States to call on
Congress to stand up for hard-working families. While we may not be able to change every mind, our voices will be heard. And we will remember those who turned their back on America’s workers by voting for another destructive trade deal.”<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">A copy of President Perrone’s Wednesday op-ed in
<i class="">The Hill</i> is linked <b class=""><a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/economy-budget/238797-trans-pacific-partnership-will-harm-middle-and-working" class="">here</a></b> and copied below.
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<a href="http://www.ufcw.org/" class=""><span style="color:blue" class="">United Food and Commercial Workers International Union</span></a> (UFCW) online at
<a href="http://www.ufcw.org/" class=""><span style="color:blue" class="">www.ufcw.org</span></a><o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" class="">We are 1.3 million families standing together to build an economy that every hard-working family deserves.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" class=""><img border="0" width="40" height="40" id="_x0000_i1026" class="" apple-inline="yes" src="cid:image002.jpg@01D07857.D57C37C0"></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" class=""> <a href="https://sharepoint.ufcw.org/Communications/Communications%20Shared%20Work/AppData/Local/Microsoft/Windows/Temporary%20Internet%20Files/Content.Outlook/AppData/Local/Microsoft/Windows/Temporary%20Internet%20Files/Content.Outlook/UF8394FE/www.facebook.com/UFCWinternational" class=""><span style="color:blue" class="">www.facebook.com/UFCWinternational</span></a>
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" class=""><img border="0" width="46" height="46" id="_x0000_i1025" class="" apple-inline="yes" src="cid:image003.png@01D07857.D57C37C0"></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" class=""> <a href="http://www.twitter.com/UFCW" class=""><span style="color:blue" class="">@UFCW</span></a><o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" class=""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" class="">April 15, 2015, 02:00 pm</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%;background:white">
<b class=""><span style="font-size: 29.5pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">Trans-Pacific Partnership will harm middle and working class Americans<o:p class=""></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:7.5pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:115%">
<b class=""><span style="font-size:8.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#003366" class="">By Marc Perrone<o:p class=""></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" class="">Four years ago, after careful consideration, the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW)
decided to endorse the U.S.-Korea free trade agreement, making us one of the only labor unions to do so. We viewed the Korea deal—which had improved labor standards and was estimated to create over 20,000 jobs in the meat sector, as a small, but not insignificant,
step forward on global trade policy. As the union that represents hundreds of thousands of meatpacking and food processing workers, we support fair trade agreements that open up new markets to sell UFCW-made products abroad.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:11.25pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:11.25pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:115%">
<span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" class="">This time it’s different. The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is not the Korea free trade agreement. It is neither free nor fair. And the UFCW is determined to see it defeated.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" class="">The truth is as we’ve heard during past trade debates, many Republicans and even some Democrats, repeatedly say
that the TPP won’t hurt families or communities, or devastate industries, unions, or the middle and working classes.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:11.25pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:11.25pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:115%">
<span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" class="">America’s families know from experience the brutal reality will be quite different.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:11.25pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:11.25pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:115%">
<span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" class="">Over the last three decades, in large part because of bad trade deals, Americans have worked harder than ever, while wages remain stagnant. Income and economic inequality has
grown to historically high levels. Industry consolidation, fueled by unchecked global competition, has led to countless jobs being lost. Good union jobs have been decimated across nearly every state and replaced by either no job, or non-union jobs that barely
pay above minimum wage.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:11.25pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:11.25pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:115%">
<span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" class="">As for the TPP, while a bipartisan chorus will sing the praises of this trade deal, they choose to ignore the truth that it is America’s working men and women, not them, who will
pay the price as irresponsible corporations justify future cuts to wages, hours, and jobs–all in the name of “international competition.”<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:11.25pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:11.25pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:115%">
<span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" class="">If that wasn’t bad enough, the TPP goes even further by rolling back regulations that could be construed as a “barrier to trade,” which includes environmental, consumer, and labor
protections. And, if there were any remaining doubts, this massive trade deal, which will impact tens of millions of American jobs, has been put together in secret, with the advice and counsel of hundreds of corporate special interests with absolutely no input
from labor or other groups that fight on behalf of the working and middle classes.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:11.25pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:11.25pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:115%">
<span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" class="">Given all that we know, how any elected official, Democrat or Republican, can support the TPP is inexplicable. <o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:11.25pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:11.25pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:115%">
<span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" class="">So, on behalf of the 1.3 million hard-working men and women of the UFCW, we are calling on every member of Congress to oppose the TPP and the fast-track legislation that would
make it possible to pass the TPP.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:11.25pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:11.25pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:115%">
<span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" class="">Let me be very clear, no elected official, regardless of political party, who is truly interested in making the economy better and fairer, can responsibly support the TPP. Simply
put, this trade deal, like so many others, is bad for our workers, families, and shared future.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:11.25pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:11.25pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:115%">
<span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" class="">In the end, while we may not be able to change every mind, we will remember those elected officials who stood with America’s workers by voting for jobs and against another destructive
trade deal. More to the point, we join with the AFL-CIO and other unions that refuse to support any member of Congress that decides to put narrow self-interests above the interests of hard-working families.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><i class=""><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" class="">Marc Perrone is International President of the 1.3 million member United Food and Commercial Workers International
Union (UFCW).</span></i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
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</div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">Begin forwarded message:</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><br class=""></span></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple" class=""><div class="WordSection1"><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> =====</o:p></div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">Pocan Opposes Fast-Track Trade Promotion Authority Plan</b><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">Date: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">April 16, 2015 at 3:20:05 PM EDT<br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">Reply-To: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">"Nguyen, Alex" <<a href="mailto:Alex.Nguyen@mail.house.gov" class="">Alex.Nguyen@mail.house.gov</a>><br class=""></span></div><br class=""><div class="">
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<b class=""><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"" class="">Pocan Opposes Fast-Track Trade Promotion Authority Plan<o:p class=""></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:.2in"><span style="font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"" class=""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:.2in"><span style="font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"" class="">Washington, D.C.
<b class="">—</b> U.S. Rep. Mark Pocan (D-WI) today issued the following statement on the Trade Promotion Authority proposal introduced by U.S. Sens. Orrin Hatch (R-UT), Ron Wyden (D-OR), and U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI):
<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:.2in"><span style="font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"" class=""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:.2in"><span style="font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"" class="">“This Trade Promotion Authority Bill repeats the trade mistakes of the past and fails to provide critical protections for American workers, the environment,
and our overall economy. <o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:.2in"><span style="font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"" class=""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:.2in"><span style="font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"" class="">“The Hatch-Wyden proposal puts the paychecks of hardworking Americans on the line. Over the last three decades, in large part because of bad trade deals like
NAFTA and CAFTA, Americans have worked harder than ever for less. In fact, hundreds of thousands of jobs – factory jobs, middle-class jobs – in states across the country were lost. Anyone who does not see the connection between our economy and the failed
trade agreements of the past will remain on the wrong side of the future. We cannot let history repeat itself by pushing a Trade Promotion Authority bill which paves the road for an agreement which undermines American sovereignty and puts our workers’ wages
and jobs at risk.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:.2in"><span style="font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"" class=""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:.2in"><span style="font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"" class="">“If passed, Fast-Track would ram through trade agreements, negotiated in secret, through Congress without giving Members of Congress sufficient time to debate
and limits Congress’ ability to make amendments. Essentially, this Fast-Track proposal provides carte blanche to the President and the U.S. Trade Representative on trade matters, while tying Congress’ hands.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:.2in"><span style="font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"" class=""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:.2in"><span style="font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"" class="">“With still too many questions left unanswered and a history of broken trade promises, Congress should not give away its constitutional authority to the President
– regardless of party. I urge my colleagues to oppose this trade promotion legislation because it does not do enough to protect American workers, our environment, and our economy.”<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:.2in"><span style="font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"" class=""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-right:.2in;text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"" class="">###<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
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