Earlier this week
Congressman Lipinski introduced a bill to stop the taking away of U.
S. jobs once again by foreign trade agreements. Lipinski’s bill, Truth,
Transparency, Accountability, and Fairness in Trade Act, requires
the Executive Branch to review and report on the operation of
existing #trade agreements to determine whether American jobs and
exports are being negatively impacted. If negative impact is found,
any Member of Congress would have the right to submit a “termination
bill,” which would have expedited consideration and allow for the
cancellation of some or all of the trade agreement causing damage.
After passage of a termination bill, any renegotiated agreement would
be barred from being considered under Trade Promotion Authority (the
fast-track process) and the United States Trade Representative (USTR)
would be required to negotiate severable trade agreements moving
forward so as to allow for the cancellation of specific provisions
without necessarily canceling entire agreements.
Any Congressional member that does not vote yes on this bill are either in on some money deal and does not care about the U. S. worker or are blind to the dishonesty that this administration has been and is involved in over their time in office. If Obama is given full authority to fast-track #trade agreements U.S. workers would see the same results as we seen with the original NAFTA, loss of more jobs to foreign, so called guest, workers though the use of L-1 visa program – a program that allows companies to displace American workers by importing workers from low-wage countries. Right now the trade agreements include Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, and Vietnam; U.S. negotiators have lead us to believe that a final TPP agreement could include a special docking provision to allow for the inclusion of new member countries in future years, including Korea, Thailand, the Philippines and China.
