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Clinton Opposes Passing TPP in Lame Duck Session
2016-05-07 19:03:32 Post No. 73311465
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Clinton Opposes Passing TPP in Lame Duck Session
Anonymous
2016-05-07 19:03:32
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http://thehill.com/policy/finance/trade/279076-clinton-opposes-tpp-vote-in-the-lame-duck-session
>Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton said she is opposed to Congress holding a vote on a sweeping Asia-Pacific agreement during the lame-duck session after the November election if she wins the presidency.
>"I have said I oppose the TPP agreement — and that means before and after the election," she replied in a questionnaire released on Friday by the Oregon Fair Trade Campaign, a coalition of more than 25 labor, environmental and human rights organizations.
>When asked about whether the TPP does enough to address labor and human rights abuses abroad she said that U.S. trade policy is in need of sweeping changes.
>"I’m not interested in tinkering around the margins of our trade policy," Clinton said. "I think we need a fundamental rethink of how we approach trade deals going forward."
>"Across all of our policies, American workers and American jobs have to come first," Clinton said.
>"And one area where we’ve gotten this balance wrong over the years is trade," she said. "Looking back over the past decades, as globalization picked up steam, there’s no doubt that the benefits of trade have not been as widely enjoyed as many predicted. Corporations may have won, but many workers lost."
The fall after the election is the only hope it has of sliding by without her being charged in an active role in it like NAFTA for Bill.
Has Sanders (and Trump to a lesser extent) finally mind broke her?
