Political Quotes

“Mr. President, we are going to be voting, we hope, on an amendment that is called the antidocking amendment. It observes, by reading the Trans-Pacific Partnership, that there apparently is a path for the executive branch to allow another country to become part of the Trans-Pacific Partnership without a vote of Congress. In other words, as to the world 's second largest economy, China, the administration, this President or the next President, could decide that, well, China should join the 12 countries already part of TPP if we affirm this vote down the road with TPP. If China could join--the second largest economy in the world--they would backdoor, if you will, because of the administration's willingness to do it, with no input from the public, with no input from the Congress. Our amendment is really simple. It sets up a process over a 90-day period. If a President wants to bring a country into the Trans-Pacific Partnership, that country would have to meet certain criteria, the same kinds of criteria that we have seen with these 12 countries, including sex trafficking and some labor law and other things. Then Congress would actually vote. Congress would get 90 days to decide, up or down, whether a country can join TPP after it is up and running. The country that most concerns us, of course, is China. So when you hear this amendment discussed, you will hear China used as an example, because its economy, obviously, is so large.…”