On the recordJune 15, 2015
I appreciate so much the comments of my friend Mr. Russell, a neighbor from an adjoining State. He is right. The American people have made clear that they did not want the TPA passed. They certainly don't want the TAA passed. How ironic that we are told that TPA's passage will create a massive number of jobs; yet the people who have really looked at it on the Democratic side say, ``Huh-uh, this is going to cost a lot of jobs so that we have got to have more unemployment benefits and more government help for people who are going to lose their jobs,'' which is what the TAA basically does, ``or we can't vote for the TPA''--how ironic. Also how ironic that President Obama seems to have worked harder on this bill than he has on anything since ObamaCare--he has come to the Hill; he went to the baseball game. He is really pushing people to join him. It is rather ironic because it is just hard to believe that he would be working this hard to limit his own powers. He has never done that before. He has never worked to limit his own powers. It also strikes me as a bit interesting that some of the same people who pushed so hard to pass TARP, the Wall Street bailout, are also pushing for this. There was a former FDIC Chairman named Isaac, who came to the Hill with the support of many economists, saying: ``Please, don't get into this socialist activity where government partners with private business. Don't do that and certainly not for $700 billion.…
