Tell your Senator to vote against Fast Track for TPP/TAA

From The Tea Party:

There's no time to waste so I'll get right to the point.

We need to shut down the U.S. Senate switchboard TODAY, and we need your help.

Yesterday the Senate voted to advance President Obama's trade agenda, with their vote to end debate on fast-track trade authority (commonly referred to as TPA).

This afternoon the Senate will vote on whether or not to approve TPA. They will also vote on moving forward a separate bill that includes Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) and trade preferences for African countries, known as the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA).

If passed, these bills will go to Obama's desk to be signed into law, giving him the authority to finalize the largest so-called "free trade" deal in history - the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).

This TPP deal, negotiated in secret meetings dominated by governments and corporations, is bad for American workers, consumers and small business owners.

We need to make our voice heard and STOP this giveaway to corporate America and foreign nations!

Please take a moment RIGHT NOW to call your United States Senators and demand they stand up for American citizens, by voting "no" to fast-track trade authority for President Obama.

Please, do these two things immediately:

1. Call the Capitol Switchboard at 202-224-3121 and tell your Senators: Vote with the Freedom Caucus, VOTE NO on TPA and TAA/Trade preferences.

2. Chip in $15, $25, $50, or more to make sure we can get this in front of every fellow tea party American.

Thank you for your activism and support.

Sincerely,

Katrina Pierson
Tea Party Leadership Fund

Defeat TPP once and for all

From The Daily Kos:

In a dramatic turn of events on Friday, the House of Representatives narrowly voted to pass Fast Track trade authority, 219-211, thus opening the door for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and many other horrible trade "deals" down the road.

But there is a HUGE catch which means we can still stop Fast Track early next week, and defeat TPP once and for all.

Sign and send the petition to your member of the House of Representatives: Vote against TAA to stop Fast Track and protect American jobs.

Just before the House voted to pass Fast Track, it overwhelmingly voted to defeat something called TAA (Trade Adjustment Assistance)—which funds "worker training" by cutting Medicare. The House needed to pass TAA in order for the bill to go to President Obama's desk, because TAA was in the Senate version of the bill.

Without TAA, the House and Senate have to come up with an entirely different bill, and then both re-vote on the whole thing again. What's more, the Senate probably can't pass Fast Track without TAA. They tried that last month, and failed.

Now, there will be another vote on TAA in the House this Tuesday. If we can defeat it again—and yesterday we crushed it 302-126—then Fast Track and TPP all go away and we win!

Sign and send the petition to you member of the House of Representatives: Vote to against TAA and stop Fast Track and TPP once and for all.

Keep fighting,
Chris Bowers, Daily Kos

P.S. Please read our write-up of what happened.