Question for Hillary backers: how do *you* feel about the TPP?

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66. Here's what she said in 2011: "Hillary's Trade Dilemma"

Plus, when she was SOS she was doing Trade Deals...which is usually role for Secretary of Commerce and not SOS... Some of those deals she could have done promising the TPP would be passed to give confidence for the negotiations.

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Hillary's trade dilemma

By Doug Palmer

3/20/15 6:49 PM EDT

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/03/hillarys-trade-dilemma-116278.html#ixzz3XQoPzs4X

Union groups, including the AFL-CIO labor federation, also have deep concerns about the prospective trade pact with Japan and 10 other countries in the Asia-Pacific that, along with the United States, represent more than 40 percent of world gross domestic product. They fear the deal will encourage companies to move more jobs overseas, suppressing wages in the United States.

Clinton, as Obama’s secretary of state, is closely associated with the agreement, which could grow to cover 21 economies in the region, including China. “Our hope is that a TPP agreement with high standards can serve as a benchmark for future agreements — and grow to serve as a platform for broader regional interaction and eventually a free trade area of the Asia-Pacific,” she wrote in October 2011.

The issue is front and center as Obama pushes for approval of trade promotion authority, a bill that would allow him to submit trade agreements, like the proposed TPP, to Congress for a straight up-or-down vote without any amendments. The next president, whoever it is, could also use the authority to negotiate a deal bringing China into the pact.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/03/hillarys-trade-dilemma-116278.html#ixzz3XQoLz8ka