So the Platform Comittee has endorsed the TPP

[DonViejo]

17. Earlier today, I read a piece reporting that Elijah Cummings did not want the party patform

to take a stand stand against the President. I'll have to see if I can locate that but, here's more of the article from the OP:

"What I don't want to do is leave this place disregarding the position of the president of the United States," said Rep. Luis Gutierrez, D-Ill., a Clinton supporter who noted his opposition to trade deals.

However, not all on the left are happy with the textual tweakings, perhaps a harbinger of conflict to come within the party. Dr. Cornel West, a civil rights leader and Sanders supporter, for example, said it was important for the party to take a stand against the trade deal. "Our beloved president is on a different side from you and I. We can agree with him on some things and disagree with him on others. I think he's wrong on this issue," West said.

The panel approved language calling for the abolition of the death penalty, calling it "a cruel and unusual form of punishment which has no place" in the nation.

The platform also called for the expansion of Social Security. It reportedly said Americans should earn at least a $15 (13.2 euros) an hour, referring to the current minimum wage of $7.25 an hour as a "starvation wage," a phrase the Vermont senator - who this week said he would vote for Clinton, without endorsing her - often uses.

The committee also said the convention text would include passages that support a "variety of ways to prevent banks from gambling with taxpayers' bank deposits, including an updated and modernized version of Glass-Steagall."