Fast Track - TransPacific Partnership aka TPP

 

Many in the progressive community are concerned about Congress' recent efforts to "fast track" trade deals, specifically the proposed TransPacific Partnership.  We will be updating this page with some links:

 

~Wikipedia page on Fast Track negotiating authority:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_track_(trade)

~Petition against Fast Track - Democracy for America

http://act.democracyforamerica.com/sign/fast_track/

2014-2-11 HuffPo article on 2013 Trade Data and what that might mean for Fast Track:

2014-5-1 Article in The Hill about Republican Senator Hatch asking President Obama to get involved in promoting fast track trade authority. 

2014-5-1 Yahoo article on Senator Wyden's Concerns About Fast-Track

2015-1-26 Robert Reich Facebook post about fast-tracking the TPP 

2015-1-30 Joseph Stiglitz op-ed in the NY Times on drug companies potentially using fast-track to "protect" intellectual property and drive up drug prices.