Sanders Says Senate Advance of TPA 'Put Interests of Corporations Ahead of Needs of Workers'

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In a fiery statement after the Senate voted to advance a bill that would give President Obama fast track trade authority, Sen. Bernie Sanders hammered the Senate for siding with corporations while harming American workers.

After the Senate had voted 62-38 to advance a bill that would give President Obama fast track authority on trade, Sanders said:

The Senate just put the interests of powerful multi-national corporations, drug companies and Wall Street ahead of the needs of American workers. If this disastrous trade agreement is approved, it will throw Americans out of work while companies continue moving operations and good-paying jobs to low-wage countries overseas.

Bad trade deals like the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership are a major reason for the collapse of the American middle class and the increase in wealth and income inequality in the United States. This agreement, like bad trade deals before it, would force American workers to compete with desperate workers around the world – including workers in Vietnam where the minimum wage is 56-cents an hour.

Trade agreements should not just work for corporate America, Wall Street, and the pharmaceutical industry. They have got to benefit the working families of our country,” Sanders said. “We must defeat fast track and develop a new policy on trade.

read: http://www.politicususa.com/2015/05/21/bernie-sanders-blasts-senate-screwing-workers-voting-advance-trade-bill.html

http://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/recent-business/senate-vote-on-job-killing-trade-bill

[Robbins]

1. he's right

but majority of dems in congress and on this site don't care.Obama doesn't care eather.Clintons too don't care.

[BrotherIvan]

2. This is why we don't need DINOS, we need true populists who don't betray you when it comes down to $

Money needs to get out of politics so these people work for us, not the corporations.

[peacebird]

3. Don't need Blue Dogs either....

[Dont call me Shirley]

10. Nor do we need 3rdWay.

[BrotherIvan]

13. We hear all that time that they vote in a high percentage with Democrats

But that percentage is made up of procedural votes or non-controversial bills. When it really comes down to the big stuff, they thrust the knife right in. They are the reason that with majorities in Congress and the WH, nothing gets done. Republicans can obstruct, but it takes blue dog turncoats to give them power.

[Elwood P Dowd]

11. We have DINOS right here on this message board pushing for the TPPeeing on

what little is left of freedom and prosperity for the non-rich. The Democratic Party is just a shell of what it was when I started voting in 1968.

[BrotherIvan]

12. You are correct

And it's pretty shocking. I know some of the posters have revealed that they are upper middle class, so for them, they don't have to worry about feeding their kids, or sending their children to college, or losing their jobs, or medical emergencies that could mean the difference between rent or not. They're as FUIGM as any Republican. The Democratic party has lost its way and I would assume that if the Republicans weren't racist misogynist homophobes they would be more than happy to vote for them.

[CharlotteVale]

4. K&R

[bigtree]

5. kick

[Doctor_J]

6. The most corporate friendly president in history

and the end of any meaningful resistance to the republicans (actually that ship sailed when Gingrinchcare passed, and fan club declared it a liberal victory...or maybe it was went Siegelman stayed in jail while Bush and Cheney stayed free).

[ananda]

7. Can this be filibustered or procedured?

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[Eric J in MN]

8. Fast Track passed the Senate.

It got 62 Senate votes, defeating a procedural filibuster.

Now it's up to the House, which also has a Republican majority (there are no filibusters in the House). If "Fast Track" passes the House, then no trade-deals can be filibustered in the Senate for the next six years.

Senate Roll Call:
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/22/business/senate-obama-trade-pact-export-import-bank-patriot-act.html?_r=0

[madfloridian]

9. That is true.

Thanks, Bernie.

[Broward]

14. Voting for the lesser of two evils keeps moving both parties further to the right.

The only way to stop this madness is to pull the Dem Party back to the left. We can't countenance these faux Dems any longer.

[Michigan-Arizona]

15. K&R n/t