{"id":5044,"date":"2014-01-14T22:09:18","date_gmt":"2014-01-15T03:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.citizenstrade.org\/ctc\/?p=5044"},"modified":"2014-01-14T22:09:18","modified_gmt":"2014-01-15T03:09:18","slug":"sign-letter-opposing-fast-track-tpp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.citizenstrade.org\/ctc\/blog\/2014\/01\/14\/sign-letter-opposing-fast-track-tpp\/","title":{"rendered":"Sign On Letter Opposing Fast Track for the TPP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/a\/citizenstrade.org\/forms\/d\/1S0Zqg19atpqT9ineVLlW0W24scuVAUCJUeEb_-EsWc8\/viewform\"><b>Please Click Here to Add Your Group&#8217;s Name to This Organizational Sign-On Letter Opposing Fast Track<\/b><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div><b>Re: Please Oppose \u201cThe Bipartisan Congressional Trade Priorities Act\u201d (HR 3830)<\/b><\/div>\n<div>.<\/div>\n<div>Dear Representative: [will also send Senate version w\/ Senate bill number]<\/div>\n<div>.<\/div>\n<div>The undersigned organizations urge you to oppose \u201cThe Bipartisan Congressional Trade Priorities Act\u201d (HR 3830).\u00a0 This legislation would revive the outdated and unsound 2002 \u201cFast Track\u201d Trade Promotion Authority mechanism.<\/div>\n<div>.<\/div>\n<div>Indeed, the legislation replicates the broad delegation of Congress\u2019 constitutional authorities that was provided in the 2002 Fast Track, undermining Congress\u2019 ability to have a meaningful role in shaping the contents of trade agreements.<\/div>\n<div>.<\/div>\n<div>The legislation includes several negotiation objectives not found in the 2002 Fast Track.\u00a0 However, the Fast Track process that this legislation would reestablish ensures that these objectives are entirely unenforceable.\u00a0 If this bill were enacted, the president could sign a trade agreement before Congress votes on it \u2014 whether or not the negotiating objectives have been met. \u00a0 It would also allow the executive branch to write legislation not subject to committee markup that would implement the pact and alter existing U.S. laws so that they come into compliance with the rules of the trade agreement. \u00a0 Additionally, if HR 3830 were enacted, trade pact implementing legislation would be guaranteed House and Senate votes within 90 days, with all floor amendments forbidden and a maximum of 20 hours of debate.<\/div>\n<div>.<\/div>\n<div>Fast Track was designed in the 1970s when trade negotiations were focused on cutting tariffs and quotas.\u00a0 Today\u2019s pending \u201ctrade\u201d agreements, such as the\u00a0Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), are much broader \u2014 setting binding policy on Congress and state legislatures relating to patents and copyright, food safety, government procurement, financial regulation, immigration, healthcare, energy, the environment, labor rights and more.\u00a0\u00a0Such a broad delegation of Congress\u2019 constitutional authorities is simply inappropriate given the scope of the pending \u201ctrade\u201d agreements and the implications for Congress\u2019 core domestic policymaking prerogatives.<\/div>\n<div>.<\/div>\n<div>After decades of devastating job loss, attacks on environmental and health laws and floods of unsafe imported food under our past trade agreements, America must chart a new course on trade policy.\u00a0 To accomplish this, a new form of trade authority is needed that ensures that Congress and the public play a much more meaningful role in determining the contents of U.S. trade agreements. Critically, such a new procedure must ensure that Congress is satisfied with a trade agreement\u2019s contents\u00a0<i>before<\/i>\u00a0a pact can be signed and subjected to any expedited procedures.<\/div>\n<div>.<\/div>\n<div>HR 3830 is an abrogation of not only Congress\u2019 constitutional authority, but of its responsibility to the American people.\u00a0 We oppose this bill, and urge you to do so as well.<\/div>\n<div>.<\/div>\n<div>Sincerely,<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>&#8212;-<\/div>\n<div>.<\/div>\n<div>Add your group&#8217;s name to the letter here:<\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/a\/citizenstrade.org\/forms\/d\/1S0Zqg19atpqT9ineVLlW0W24scuVAUCJUeEb_-EsWc8\/viewform\">https:\/\/docs.google.com\/a\/citizenstrade.org\/forms\/d\/1S0Zqg19atpqT9ineVLlW0W24scuVAUCJUeEb_-EsWc8\/viewform<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please Click Here to Add Your Group&#8217;s Name to This Organizational Sign-On Letter Opposing Fast Track Re: Please Oppose \u201cThe Bipartisan Congressional Trade Priorities Act\u201d (HR 3830) . 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