<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=""><b style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(23, 55, 94);" class="">HUFFINGTON POST</span></b><b style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 24pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: rgb(23, 55, 94);" class=""> </span></b><b style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: rgb(51, 153, 51);" class="">THE BLOG</span></b><br class=""><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><b class=""><span style="font-size: 22pt;" class="">TPP Is Not Dead, Unfortunately<o:p class=""></o:p></span></b></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">08/31/2016 04:31 pm ET<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""> <img apple-inline="yes" id="F8223BB3-3369-448E-AE71-DBE0D20DFF43" height="58" width="62" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:image002.jpg@01D2044D.30BD2220" class=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/author/lori-wallach" style="color: purple;" class="">Lori Wallach </a>Director, Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch </span><span class="MsoHyperlink" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;"><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">The reports of the Trans-Pacific Partnership’s death have been greatly exaggerated, unfortunately.</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">It would great news if the pact, which would mean more power for corporations over our lives and government, and fewer good jobs for Americans, were ready to be boxed and buried. <o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">But more urgently, if last week’s news stories convince the growing transpartisan movement fighting the TPP to stand down, the prospects that the pact’s powerful proponents can succeed in their plan to pass it after the election will increase.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">Last week Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said at the Kentucky Farm Bureau: “The current agreement...which has some serious flaws, will not be acted upon this year.” This generated a wave of press coverage declaring that there would be no lame duck vote on the TPP.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">Except, McConnell has said pretty much the same thing since the final TPP text was released, as have other Republican leaders. Plus....<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><i class=""><span style="font-size: 14pt;" class=""><br class=""></span></i></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><i class=""><span style="font-size: 14pt;" class="">Read the rest of the piece</span></i><span style="font-size: 14pt;" class="">: <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lori-wallach/tpp-is-not-dead-unfortuna_b_11802652.html" style="color: purple;" class="">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lori-wallach/tpp-is-not-dead-unfortuna_b_11802652.html</a><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class=""> </span></div></div></body></html>