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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#999999'>CQ NEWS – POTUS OPERANDI<br>May 18, 2015 – 11:01 a.m.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#404040'>Elizabeth Warren: You Can't Trust Barack Obama's Promises<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#999999'>By Steven T. Dennis<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#333333'><img width=1280 height=880 id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.jpg@01D0915C.A1808E80" alt="Story Photo"></span><span lang=EN style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#333333'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"inherit",serif;color:#888888'>Warren dismissed “empty promises” made about trade agreements. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span lang=EN style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#333333'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:11.25pt'><span lang=EN style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"inherit",serif;color:#333333'>After President <a href="http://www.cq.com/person/7612"><b><span style='color:#115F85;text-decoration:none'>Barack Obama</span></b></a> called out <a href="http://www.cq.com/person/46463"><b><span style='color:#115F85;text-decoration:none'>Elizabeth Warren</span></b></a> for being a politician “<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/10/us/politics/obama-calls-elizabeth-warren-absolutely-wrong-on-trans-pacific-trade-deal.html?_r=0"><b><span style='color:#115F85;text-decoration:none'>like everybody else</span></b></a>,” the Massachusetts senator is calling out the president, suggesting you can’t trust his promises.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:11.25pt'><span lang=EN style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"inherit",serif;color:#333333'>Warren released <a href="http://www.warren.senate.gov/files/documents/BrokenPromises.pdf"><b><span style='color:#115F85;text-decoration:none'>a 15-page report Monday</span></b></a> saying the United States had failed to enforce labor and environmental standards for two decades in previous trade agreements.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:11.25pt'><span lang=EN style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"inherit",serif;color:#333333'>A statement from her office noted Obama recently promised the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) will be “the most progressive trade bill in history” and will have “higher labor standards, higher environmental standards,” and “new tools to hold countries accountable.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:11.25pt'><span lang=EN style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"inherit",serif;color:#333333'>Warren’s rebuttal amounts to: That’s what they always say.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:11.25pt'><span lang=EN style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"inherit",serif;color:#333333'>“Supporters of past trade agreements have said again and again that these deals would include strong protections for workers, but assurances without strong enforcement are just empty promises,” she said in a statement. “The facts show that, despite all the promises, these trade deals were just another tool to tilt the playing field in favor of multinational corporations and against working families.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"inherit",serif;color:#333333'>Warren’s salvo comes as the <a href="http://blogs.rollcall.com/wgdb/senate-roll-call-vote-to-advance-fast-track-trade-bill/?dcz="><b><span style='color:#115F85;text-decoration:none'>Senate debates whether to give this president — and the next — fast-track trade authority</span></b></a> to get up-or-down votes on trade agreements, with Asia and Europe on deck.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>