TPA

TPA wont passtoo much opposition in the House and would

give Obama unchecked negotiation on trade deals
House 3-13 [Billy. House is a reporter for Bloomberg News, Fast-track trade measure
won't pass Congress, DeLauro says, Chicago Tribune on March 13, 2015,
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/sns-wp-blm-news-bc-delauro13-20150313-story.html]
WASHINGTON A House Democrat who opposes President Barack Obama's push for a process allowing for speedy
approval of trade agreements predicted the proposal will fail in Congress, saying she wants lawmakers to have a
stronger role. "We've

seen a loss of jobs and a depression of wages" resulting

from prior trade agreements, said Rep. Rosa DeLauro of Connecticut during a
meeting with Bloomberg News editors and reporters Friday in New York. "Those issues affect not just Democrats,

"an overwhelming" number of House Democrats

would oppose Obama's request for fast-track authority, which would limit
Congress to an up-or-down vote on trade agreements with no amendments.
She said she didn't know how many House Republicans might support the
proposal, and said she is encouraging members of both parties to oppose it.
"I believe it will not pass," DeLauro said. Congress last granted the president fast-track authority
but the nation broadly." DeLauro said

in 2002, and it expired in 2007. Renewing it is a priority for Obama. He is backed by a number of Republicans in a
rare instance of the president gaining stronger support from that party than from his fellow Democrats. The Obama
administration's negotiations with 11 governments in the Pacific region would be the first submitted under fasttrack authority if Congress decided to grant it. The president is also working on a longer-term trade agreement with

DeLauro and other Democratic lawmakers who oppose

fast- track authority say it would let a president act without congressional
input when negotiating deals that they say would kill jobs and threaten food
safety and environmental regulations. The fast-track process was used during President Bill
the 28- nation European Union.

Clinton's administration in 1993 to pass the North American Free Trade Agreement, which many Democrats have

DeLauro said she and others might support a process she

called "replacement trade authority." It would let Congress help select
"appropriate trade partners" on such matters as environmental and public health
standards as well as market access for U.S. exporters, she said. DeLauro said another part of the
criticized as harmful to U.S. workers.

replacement process would require the final text of an agreement to be released publicly to show that negotiating

She also said 230

House Republicans and Democrats have signed a letter saying they would
insist that trade agreements include language to combat currency
manipulation. Also on Friday, the House Ways and Means Committee led by Republican Paul Ryan of
objectives sought by Congress have been met before the negotiation is concluded.

Wisconsin issued a statement outlining earlier presidents' uses of fast-track authority, also known as trade
promotion authority. "Every president since Franklin Delano Roosevelt has had some mechanism like trade
promotion authority (TPA) to help advance America's trade agenda," according to the statement. "Otherwise, it's
difficult to complete agreements and get the best deals from our trading partners." President Ronald Reagan "used
it to sign trade agreements with Israel and Canada and launch the Uruguay Round of negotiations, which created
the World Trade Organization," according to the statement.

TPA wont passTPP trade negotiations failing, strong union

opposition and bipartisan support means it fails
Van Onselen 3-17 [Leith. Van Onselen is an economist that has previously worked at
the Australian Treasury, Victorian Treasury and Goldman Sachs, TPP trade negotiations
stall, March 17, 2015, http://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2015/03/tpp-trade-negotiationsstall/]

Negotiations for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) appear to have hit a snag, with
negotiators at last weeks meeting in Hawaii still at loggerheads over certain contentious areas, most notably
intellectual property, with developing countries most at odds with the US. From The Japan
Times: In the meeting from March 9, they tried to reach compromises in seven contentious areas but remained
apart on intellectual property protection periods for data on medicines. They also differed on an accord for
environmental protection, with Latin American participants opposing U.S. efforts to introduce strict rules, the

Negotiations are also being held-up by the US political system,

which is yet to approve the Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) bill, which is required so that
US President Obama can sign the agreement and then have it ratified by Congress in its entirety
sources said.

with a yes or no vote. Without TPA, Congress would be able to force amendments to the negotiated TPP,
effectively rendering the agreement void. With US Congress deliberations on the TPA expected to begin next month,
and uncertainty over the outcome, a proposal has been made to put off negotiations for the TPP until a late-May

resistance from within the US remains a hurdle for

granting the President TPA, with the TPP-skeptic American Federation of Labor and
Congress of Industrial Organizations, the largest U.S. federation of labor unions, last
week saying that it would suspend financial contributions to federal
lawmakers as a form of resistance to the pact: Members of Congress involved in the TPP
ministerial meeting. Meanwhile,

negotiations are facing a significant amount of pressure from opponents of the initiative, including the AFL-CIO,

Former Rep. Jane Harman said that despite what many pundits
believe, it wont be easy for the Republican-controlled Congress to pass a
TPA bill. I do think that the anti-trade wing of the Republican Party and the
anti-trade wing of the Democratic Party are going to band together, said
Sasae suggested.

Harman, now president of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars think tank. With a bit of luck, the
US Congress will fail to pass the TPA Bill, pushing negotiations into never-neverland as the agreement makes way
for the 2016 Presidential Election.