60-37, Senate breaks filibuster on trade in big win for Obama, GOP leaders
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) June 23, 2015
Seriously, it was obvious last week that this bill was going to get past cloture in the Senate. You don’t waste a 218-208 vote – which requires arm-twisting and deal making – in the House, just to have it die in the Senate. It’s inefficient. Continue reading Told ya so: TPA bill passes cloture vote, 60-37.
Oh, my, but this is entertaining:
When it comes to the most significant free trade deal in decades, the Democratic party is leaderless.
That much was clear Friday after House Democrats sunk the precursor to a fast-track trade measure hours after huddling with President Obama, his chief of staff, and the labor secretary in the basement of the Capitol to discuss one of the administration’s top priorities this year.
Democrats wouldn’t follow Obama’s lead. But it’s also not clear they followed House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi in bringing down the measure known as Trade Adjustment Assistance. Though she announced at the last minute that she was voting against TAA, she personally negotiated the details of it with Speaker John Boehner.
Continue reading The Democrats certainly fornicated the canine on TPA/TAA today, huh?
