‘Odds Are High’ Trade Promotion Authority Bill Will Clear Senate, Shapiro Says
CEA President Gary Shapiro threw water on claims by the politically conservative advocacy group Americans for Limited Government (ALG) that concerns expressed by Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., about granting President Barack Obama trade promotion authority to negotiate the Trans-Pacific Partnership…
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(TPP) would “eviscerate” the fast-track Pacific trade deal. Sessions’ opposition is “a game changer,” ALG President Rick Manning said Monday in a statement. ALG thinks the TPP “will subvert the treaty clause of the Constitution, increase immigration, and cede sovereignty to international powers," Manning said. However, “one senator who is not a leader or committee chair does not ‘eviscerate’ legislation,” Shapiro emailed us Monday. “Odds are high it will pass the Senate.” In a "critical alert" statement issued Monday, Sessions argued that Congress "has the responsibility to ensure that any international trade agreement entered into by the United States must serve the national interest, not merely the interests of those crafting the proposal in secret."