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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>For Immediately Release:<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">June 12, 2015<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Patrick Woodall – 202-683-2487<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Stalled Fast Track is a Victory for Consumers, Workers and the Environment<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center;"><i>Statement of Food & Water Watch Executive Director Wenonah Hauter<o:p></o:p></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">WASHINGTON — “Today, the House of Representatives put consumers, workers and the environment first when it blocked the easy passage of the Senate-passed Fast Track, also known as Trade Promotion Authority. The House of Representatives blocked
one-half of the Fast Track measure in a lopsided bipartisan vote, which will prevent Fast Track from going to the President’s desk.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">“Finally, Congress stood up to the Big Business interests pushing Fast Track, which derails the as-yet-unseen Trans-Pacific Partnership, a trade pact that will undermine key consumer, public health and environmental protections, and other
trade deals that follow. Although the House narrowly passed the Fast Track measure itself, the other portion of the legislation covering worker trade assistance failed.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The American people should cheer that the Fast Track juggernaut has been derailed today. It will be nearly impossible to jump start Fast Track at this point, but the broad-based coalition that brought down the Fast Track package today will
remain vigilant to prevent future parliamentary shenanigans in the House and Senate that try to reanimate Fast Track.”<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i>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></o:p></i></p>
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<div>Mitch Jones</div>
<div>Senior Policy Advocate</div>
<div>Food & Water Watch</div>
<div>3121 St. Paul St., Ste. 28</div>
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<div>410-394-7651</div>
<div>mjones@fwwatch.org</div>
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<div>Twitter: @MitchJonesFWW</div>
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<span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span>Arthur Stamoulis <<a href="mailto:arthur@citizenstrade.org">arthur@citizenstrade.org</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span>Friday, June 12, 2015 at 2:03 PM<br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span>CTC Field Field <<a href="mailto:ctcfield@lists.citizenstrade.org">ctcfield@lists.citizenstrade.org</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span>[CTC] Defeat of Fast Track Package Highlights Americans’ Concerns About More of the Same Trade Policy – Senate-Passed Bill NOT Adopted<br>
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Symone Sanders, (202) 454-5108<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">June 12, 2015 Lori Wallach (202) 454-5107, <a href="mailto:lwallach@citizen.org" style="color: purple;" class="">lwallach@citizen.org</a></span><o:p class=""></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">The Fast Track package sent over from the Senate was rejected today by the House because two years of effort by a vast corporate coalition, the White House and GOP leaders – and
weeks of procedural gimmicks and deals swapped for yes votes –could not assuage Americans’ concerns that more of the same trade policy would kill more jobs and push down our wages.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">Passing trade bills opposed by a majority of Americans does not get easier with delay because the more time people have to understand what’s at stake, the angrier they get and the
more they demand that their congressional representatives represent their will. <o:p class=""></o:p></span></div>
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Welcome to the weekend as the millions of Americans across the political spectrum actively campaigning against Fast Track will intensify their efforts to permanently retire the Nixon-era scheme and replace it with a more inclusive, transparent process that
instead of more job-offshoring can deliver trade deals that create American jobs and raise our wages.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">Today the allegedly unstoppable momentum of the White House, GOP leadership and corporate coalition pushing Fast Track to grease the path for adoption of the almost-completed, controversial
Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) deal just hit the immovable object called transpartisan grassroots democracy.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">The crazy gimmicks employed to try to overcome what polls show is broad opposition to Fast Track actually backfired. Yesterday, the House GOP leadership put most GOP representatives
on record in favor of cutting Medicare by $700 million with a vote on a procedural gimmick. Today, it was Democrats’ ire about a gutted version of a program to assist workers who will be hurt by the trade agreements Fast Track would enable that was the proximate
cause of the meltdown. That program was included only to try to provide cover for the two dozen Democrats who would even consider supporting Fast Track at all.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">Today’s outcome is a testament to the strength and diversity of the remarkable coalition of thousands of organizations that overcame a money-soaked lobbying campaign by multinational
corporations and intense arm-twisting by the GOP House leadership and the Obama administration. The movement now demanding a new American trade policy is larger and more diverse than in any preceding trade policy fight. It includes everyone from small business
leaders and labor unions to Internet freedom advocates and faith groups to family farmers and environmentalists to consumer advocates and LGBT groups to retirees and civil rights groups to law professors and economists.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div>
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