Bad news and good news on TPP

From Fight For The Future:

Bad news first: Fast Track legislation to ram through the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) has now passed out of committee in both the U.S. House and Senate, and it’s moving fast.

Now the good news: just last week the House Majority Leader admitted that “the votes aren’t there yet” to get this anti-democratic, censorship-enabling legislation passed.1

But both the Obama administration and corporate-backed Republican leadership are working together to spread propaganda and claim there is “nothing secret” in the TPP – while the entire text is still classified!2 Worse, they are literally bribing reps with a fancy dinner if they vote for the Fast Track bills.3

The vote is going to be painfully close. Every second counts and every voice matters. Will you speak out today?

Click here to take urgent action to stop the Fast Track bills now.

This is a huge opportunity. If we can defeat Fast Track legislation in the U.S., it’s very likely that the entire TPP will fall apart. This is our chance to change history and to make it clear we won’t accept a future where decisions that affect our lives are made by governments in secret.

Thanks for all you do,

-Evan at Fight for the Future

P.S. Rep Nancy Pelosi now plays a key role in whether these Fast Track bills move ahead. Will you click here to tweet at her or call her office at (202) 225-4965 to tell her to oppose Fast Track for the TPP?

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Oppose the nomination of Cornelia Pillard to the DC Court Of Appeals

This afternoon, union-label Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is set to call a cloture vote in the U.S. Senate on the nomination of Cornelia Pillard to a seat on the D.C. Court of Appeals.

We can't let Barack Obama do to the courts what he's done with the federal bureaucracy.

You see, not only is the D.C. Circuit the nation's second most powerful court, it's the same court that rebuked Obama for his unconstitutional "recess" appointments to the National Labor Relations Board.

So please call your U.S. Senators at once and urge them to vote against Barack Obama's court-packing scheme on all votes, including cloture on the Cornelia Pillard nomination.

The truth is, it's unacceptable for Barack Obama to seek revenge against a federal court for refusing to rubber-stamp his unconstitutional power grab.

Fortunately, judicial nominations are still subject to the Senate's consent -- for now.

But I'm afraid Reid may reignite his threats to invoke the so-called "nuclear option" -- his scheme to gut the filibuster and ram through radical nominees without a 60-vote threshold.

The last time Reid made this threat, a handful of Senate Republicans led by John McCain of Arizona and Lamar Alexander of Tennessee negotiated a disastrous "deal" that gave Obama a fully-stocked NLRB to do Big Labor's bidding.

If Reid guts the filibuster for nominations, it's only a matter of time before he guts the filibuster for legislation too.

Over and over again since our founding, the National Right to Work Committee and our members have used the Senate filibuster to keep Big Labor from stealing even more destructive monopoly power.

So please call your Senators at once and tell them no more deals.

The vote is scheduled for later today, so please act at once.

Call your U.S. Senators right away, and urge them to vote against Barack Obama's court-packing scheme.

And after calling your Senators, please consider chipping in with a contribution of $10 or more to help your National Right to Work Committee keep up the fight against Big Labor.

But most importantly, please call your Senators at once.

Sincerely,

Mark Mix

P.S. Barack Obama wants revenge against the nation's second most powerful court for ruling his "recess" appointments to the National Labor Relations Board were unconstitutional.

A vote on Barack Obama's court-packing scheme is set for later today, so it's critical you call your U.S. Senators IMMEDIATELY and urge them to vote against cloture on the nomination of Cornelia Pillard to the D.C. Circuit Court.

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