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Focus: Trans-Pacific Partnership - Apr 25, 2015

By bartolo - Posted on 24 April 2015

Obama Blasts Democrats on Trade Deal - The Fiscal Times

VIDEO: President Obama Touts The Trans-Pacific Partnership Deal, Blast Democrats - YouTube

Obama defends free trade push to supporters: This isn’t NAFTA - The Washington Post

CHART: How the Trans-Pacific Partnership Improves on NAFTA - The White House

Obama fires back over ‘dishonest' attacks, says the text of the TPP is not secret and has been available to Congress for weeks - talkingpointsmemo

House panel approves Obama trade powers with fast track trade bill - TheHill

Congressional Panels Approve Fast Track for Trade Deal, With Conditions - NYTimes.com

GOP Blocks Consideration of Substitute to TPA Bill - Committee on Ways and Means, Democrats

White House on trade deal: Hillary Clinton is with us - POLITICO

No U.S.-Japan trade breakthrough expected during Abe visit: White House - Reuters

Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiators agree trade rules for six subjects: Japan govt source - The Straits Times

What stands in the way of a Trans-Pacific Partnership deal - Fortune

Senators: China Could Join Trade Deal Designed to Counter Its Influence in Asia Pacific - Washington Free Beacon

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Liberals furious with Obama's trade comments - MSNBC

'Secretive' trade strategy raises ire of Democratic lawmakers - BakersfieldCalifornian.com

Elizabeth Warren calls on Obama to make a proposed trade deal with Pacific Rim nations public to the American people - Washington Times

VIDEO: Interview with Congressman Alan Grayson on the Trans-Pacific Partnership deal - YouTube

U.N. expert says secret trade negotiations exclude labor unions, environmental groups, food-safety and health professionals - Reuters

Agency overseeing Obama's Trans-pacific Partnership filled with former trade lobbyists for corporations benefiting from the deals - The Intercept

Top lobbying groups spent $64 million to influence Congress and White House in first three months of this year, on topics ranging from free trade to environmental and copyright laws - huffingtonpost

Three chapters that have been leaked about the Trans-Pacific Partnership - MarketWatch

Trans-Pacific Partnership’s Extrajudicial Dispute System Could Undermine Domestic Environmental Regulations - ACS

National financial regulations can be directly challenged under the deregulatory commitments in trade agreements - american for financial reform

Attorney general of New York state: Don't let Trans-Pacific Partnership gut state laws - POLITICO Magazine

Why Wyden Has It Wrong: How Fast Track And The TPP Undermine The Internet - Electronic Frontier Foundation

Doctors Without Borders Launches Ad Campaign to Highlight Health Dangers of TPP Trade Deal - MSF USA

TPP pill difficult to swallow for pharmaceuticals, A conflict between intellectual property protection and cheap medicine - smh.com.au

U.S. Cities Fight Back Against Washington's Secretive Trade Deal - huffingtonpost.com

How Pending "Trade" Deals Would Undermine Zoning and Local Land Use Rules - naked capitalism

Washington State Democrats urge NO vote on Fast Track - The Stand

VIDEO: Local union leaders gather to discuss the impact on Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement - newsnet5.com , Cleveland

VIDEO: Protesters Take Over TPP Fast Track Hearing! - YouTube

VIDEO: Labor, Environment and Faith Community Stand Together Against Fast Track & TPP - YouTube

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