WASHINGTON -- Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) introduced legislation late Wednesday to protest the Obama administration's refusal to share information about controversial trade negotiations with the senator.
The administration's blockade against Wyden, who chairs a subcommittee on international trade, conflicts with its prior statements to the press, and raises concerns that President Barack Obama's administration is selectively icing out critics of the administration's trade strategy.
Wyden said that his office was locked out of information about a trade pact in the works known as the Trans-Pacific Partnership. The deal, which involves eight other Pacific nations, includes broad details on government contracting terms that would ban "Buy American" preferences for U.S. manufacturers, and intellectual property standards that would increase prescription drug prices abroad. Those positions have drawn criticism from American labor unions, domestic manufacturers and international public health advocates.
"The majority of Congress is being kept in the dark as to the substance of the TPP negotiations, while representatives of U.S. corporations -- like Halliburton, Chevron, PhRMA, Comcast and the Motion Picture Association of America -- are being consulted and made privy to details of the agreement," said Wyden.
Does anyone here REALLY think Romney is going to be that much different? You guys love which you hate. _________________ *some atheist walks outside and picks up stick*
Both sides serve the same corrupt interests. Both sides are two wings of the same management team. Obama was slick but it was so easy to see through the hype, it's just that people wanted to believe.
Both sides serve the same corrupt interests. Both sides are two wings of the same management team. Obama was slick but it was so easy to see through the hype, it's just that people wanted to believe.
Joined: Apr 24, 2011 Posts: 1983 Location: Twilight Zone
Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2012 5:46 pm Post subject: Transparency
The party machinery of BOTH major parties is now controlled by anti-American corruptocrats! So none of them is all that interested in true transparency, as they don't want the American public to know how they are screwing us. And yes, Romney isn't much better than BHO, and BHO is about as low as you can get, so that doesn't say much for Romney.
"I wanna bite the hands that feeds me
I wanna bite that hand so badly..." _________________ If you think he's eloquent now just wait till he's sober!
His blog: http://seattlewordsmith.wordpress.com/
Joined: Aug 13, 2009 Posts: 3341 Location: In Georgia sipping a virgin pina' colada while the rest of the world is drunk
Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2012 3:26 pm Post subject:
Oldout wrote:
snapcap's flag has it, Obama is a fulltime employee of the Fortune 500.
They are actively trying to destroy America...in someways already have, for what purpose??
I miss when life was simple.
Jojo _________________ All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the whole story; to vomit the anguish up.
-James Baldwin
Under the agreement currently being advocated by the Obama administration, American corporations would continue to be subject to domestic laws and regulations on the environment, banking and other issues. But foreign corporations operating within the U.S. would be permitted to appeal key American legal or regulatory rulings to an international tribunal. That international tribunal would be granted the power to overrule American law and impose trade sanctions on the United States for failing to abide by its rulings.
_________________ *some atheist walks outside and picks up stick*
