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Mitch PerryMarch 17, 2016

The Tampa City Council on Thursday unanimously passed a resolution calling on elected officials in Congress to oppose the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), the controversial free trade agreement between the U.S. and 11 Pacific Rim nations. It’s intended to reduce trade barriers between the 12 countries by lowering tariffs on goods, coordinating regulations and much more. The proposal […]

Mitch PerryJune 18, 2015

The House of Representatives on Thursday narrowly OK’d the Congressional Trade Priorities and Accountability Act, which approves Trade Promotion Authority (TPA). The victory for President Barack Obama came a week after House Democrats blocked a previous attempt to approve fast-track authority, concerned that the trade deal would not do enough to protect American workers. That opposition from […]

Mitch PerryJune 13, 2015

Although a majority of House Democrats rejected President Barack Obama on expanding his trade negotiating power, two of the three Democrats who met the news media hours before the Florida Democratic Party’s big summer dinner did and do support the Trans Pacific Partnership. “We are a big tent party, and we have wide-ranging views on […]

Mitch PerryJune 12, 2015

In what is being depicted as a devastating blow to President Barack Obama, the House of Representatives on Friday resoundingly rejected a proposal that would grant financial aid to displaced workers by a vote of 302 to 126. That damages the possibility that Congress will grant the president fast-track trade authority to complete the Trans Pacific Partnership, […]

Mitch PerryMay 13, 2015

President Obama’s hopes for the passage of a trade measure that would give his administration greater authority to negotiate more freely with other countries was blocked in the Senate on Tuesday, when only one Democratic senator voted to support his efforts. Obama’s goal of getting a new Asia-Pacific trade bill known as the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) […]

Mitch PerryApril 21, 2015

Tampa’s Democratic U.S. Rep. Kathy Castor says she is leaning against giving “fast track” authority to President Obama for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a trade deal involving the U.S. and 11 South American and Pacific Rim nations that if enacted would be the largest trade deal since the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) […]

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Tampa City Council passes resolution opposing Trans Pacific Partnership

Gus Bilirakis justifies vote for Trade Promotion Authority

Democrats divided on free trade agreement in South Florida

Kathy Castor explains why she opposed Obama on trade bill

David Jolly says lack of trust in President Obama is causing him to oppose TPA

Kathy Castor leans toward voting no on Trans-Pacific Partnership