Rubio Casts Deciding Vote For TPP Without Even Reading Text of Bill

[AuH20]

Someone get a raft with some supplies and throw him on it. I'm dead serious. Cuba could use a viper like him.


http://www.breitbart.com/big-govern...-vote-for-obamatrade-without-even-reading-it/

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) cast the deciding vote for Obamatrade on Tuesday as it squeeked through the U.S. Senate 60-37, and his Senate office is still outright refusing to answer whether he even knew what he was voting on.

Breitbart News has given Rubio more than a month—and at least five separate opportunities—to answer whether he read the text of TPP before he voted for it.

 

[Sola_Fide]

This can sink him.

 

[orenbus]

 

[notsure]

Was this a vote for "fast-track", or a vote to invoke cloture on "fast-track" legislation?

 

[phill4paul]

So it wasn't that Rubio voted for it. It was that he didn't vote.

 

[orenbus]

So it wasn't that Rubio voted for it. It was that he didn't vote.

From what McConnell was saying on the floor after the vote, it sounds like Corker would have voted for it but was delayed and couldn't make the vote. Rubio showed he's true colors and I'm wondering if this was because of Corker not being able to make it? Who knows how he would have voted if they had the 60. At least now Rubio's supporters that are touting him as some kind of Tea Party super star will be able to see him for what he really is, that is if they even care.

 

[kahless]

Rubio's campaign platform is an all out assault on the American worker with TPP just another giant sucking sound of jobs leaving the US. Rubio has to be the first to attack the poor and middle class on two fronts, TPP and immigration reform.

He wants more H1B's and immigration despite overwhelming evidence of the glut of American IT workers and high unemployment. Yet despite all evidence to the contrary this clown wants to import more workers with the claim it will "create more jobs for Americans".

One wonders are people really that ignorant to Rubio's platform or are they only polling illegal immigrants which are the only people that will benefit under a Rubio administration.

 

[phill4paul]

From what McConnell was saying on the floor after the vote, it sounds like Corker would have voted for it but was delayed and couldn't make the vote. Rubio showed he's true colors and I'm wondering if this was because of Corker not being able to make it? Who knows how he would have voted if they had the 60. At least now Rubio's supporters that are touting him as some kind of Tea Party super star will be able to see him for what he really easy, that is if they even care.

Ah, thanks I was reading that print out really wonky. :o

 

[Brian4Liberty]

Good article...

New Hampshire conservative and Merrimack Councilman Bill Boyd, who’s endorsed Paul for president, told Breitbart News while on a recent reporting trip to New Hampshire that he’s upset that Rubio didn’t read the deal before he voted to fast-track it.

“He’s been the biggest advocate against Obamacare and the ACA, and for all the time Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) kept on saying ‘we have to pass this bill to find out what’s in it,’” Boyd said.

You’re telling me Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) voted for a bill without reading it? Are you kidding? You know what, we elect people to go down there to represent us. At a bare minimum you have staff. Staff should be providing some kind of an executive summary. If it’s a thousand pages, you should be cutting it up and giving it to staff and get 10 or 20 page synopses. If your staff can’t bring a particular issue on in a two page memo than they have no idea what they’re talking about. For Sen. Rubio to admit that, that’s kind of surprising. That’s kind of surprising not to read a document and make an opinion without even looking at it. You need to be able to formulate an opinion. If somebody gives you the cliff notes version of a bill, that’s at least better than not reading it at all. So that’s kind of surprising.​

Boyd told Breitbart News he endorsed Paul for president because Paul is not just fighting the Democrats and the Washington machine—he’s fighting the Republican establishment and Wall Street too.

“I’m a middle class kid, and my wife and I we lead middle class lives—and Senator Paul rallying against Wall Street and corporate cronyism I think is very compelling,” Boyd said. “I’m a student of the constitution, a big fan of the Bill of Rights and to me there’s no bigger advocate for the Constitution and the Bill of Rights and I’ll throw in the Declaration of Independence than Senator.”

 

[puppetmaster]

Rubio the swine.

 

[Brian4Liberty]

TPP...

 

[Zippyjuan]

The vote was on whether or not to end debate on the TPA bil- not the TPP.

The TPA vote was always going to be close, and the Senate voted to cut off debate by 60-37 — the bare minimum to advance.

http://dailycaller.com/2015/05/23/t...tpp-and-tpa-hint-they-are-not-the-same-thing/

TPA is authorization to "fast tracK" the TPP. TPP would still have to come before Congress but it would be easier to get through.

TPA, also known as fast-track, has created a wedge between Obama and the rest of his own party. If passed, the president could submit a finalized trade deal to Congress, like TPP, which could not be amended or filibustered and would only need a straight up or down vote to pass.

Since fast-track will make it significantly easier for the president to pass TPP, those already opposed to the trade deal are also adamantly opposed to granting the president such authority. This is where much of the confusion comes in. But though fast-track can help pass TPP, they are two different things. In fact, TPP could pass without fast-track– though it will be harder to do so.

The TPP Treaty has not yet been submitted to Congress for approval.

 

[Dianne]

He's a son of a bitch, and a gay porn actor lol. He is Obama "lite". These people in Iowa must be dumb as a bag of rocks.

 

[Zippyjuan]

And to further confuse things there is also the TAA. http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-06-15/from-tpa-to-tpp-a-trade-deal-explainer

Last week House Democrats chose to vote to sink their own priority, Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA), in order to slow down Obama's (TPA). So what the heck does this have to do with TPA? Well, nothing really. Except that program, used to provide aid to U.S. workers displaced due to trade, is expiring. Democrats, who are overwhelmingly supportive of the program, saw an opening in the TPA legislation and it became the vehicle to extend (and actually expand) the program.

House Democrats opposed to the underlying trade negotiations quietly settled on a strategy to deliberately kill their own priority in order to re-set the broader trade debate. That meant voting against TAA, even in the wake of (and perhaps because of in some cases) personal lobbying from Obama. In an interesting twist, House lawmakers actually had the votes to pass the TPA measure separately, but without TAA attached, that goes nowhere for the moment.

Obama and Republican leaders are now left with trying to find another route to get TPA to the president's desk. One possibility is swinging a huge number of Democrats who just a few days ago voted against TAA. That seems unlikely, save for an epic weekend of lobbying by the White House legislative affairs team. But House and Senate leaders can get quite crafty when it comes to passing bills they badly want to move. So it's safe to say there's more to be written in this story.

(this article from last June)