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Its recommendation to Congress would get an expedited final vote by the end of 2001 under "fast track" provisions Mr. Bush would ask Congress to agree to in advance, if all went according to plan.
In 1993 Congress ratified the far-reaching North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) under the new fast track provisions.
If prior debt-ceiling legislation had included a fast-track provision, with an automatic increase that would go into effect in the case of inaction, much of the acrimony and brinkmanship of the past few months could have been avoided.
There has been an understandable sense of outrage over the Obama administration's attempt to ram the most extreme trade deal yet through Congress with a "fast-track" provision that forbids amendments or filibustering.
Obama's demand for the Trade Promotion Authority or the provision to fast track trade negotiations on the TPP and TTIP may not have gone down well with his own party.
Harry Reid, the Senate Majority Leader, opposes fast track's up-or-down vote provisions as well.
Rep. Raul Grijalva (D-Ariz)., a progressive leader among Democrats, said he hopes the climate provision makes his colleagues rethink their positions on customs and fast track.
Now fast track basically says anything the Administration negotiates is exempt from Congressional amendment --even provisions Congress and the public would never have supported.
You can ask urge your representatives in Congress to oppose the pro-settlement provision here; you can ask your representatives in Congress to oppose the Ryan-Hatch fast track bill here.
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