Republicans Give Obama More Power – Advance Fast-Track Trade Bill

Gateway Pundit

And nobody read it.
Senate Republicans voted to advance President Obama’s trade agenda today.
The Hill reported:

The Senate on Tuesday voted to advance President Obama’s trade agenda, approving a measure to end debate on fast-track authority.

The 60-37 motion sets up a vote on final passage on Wednesday. If the Senate approves fast-track or trade promotion authority (TPA), it would then be sent to Obama’s desk to become law.

Fast-track authority would allow Obama to send trade deals to Congress for up-or-down votes. The White House wants the authority to conclude negotiations on a sweeping trans-Pacific trade deal.
Thirteen Democrats backed fast-track in Tuesday’s vote, handing Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) a major legislative victory. Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.) voted against the procedural motion.

The Democrats cast “yes” votes even though the trade package did not include a workers assistance program for people displaced by increased trade. The Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) program was a part of the last fast-track package approved by the Senate in May, but became a key part of opposition to the package among Democrats in the House.

To move fast-track forward, the White House and GOP leaders in both chambers decided to break TAA away from fast-track and to try to approve both in separate votes.

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Barack Obama Dreams Of Running For President Again – Declares Himself “Fearless”

DC Whispers

During a radio interview that had him declaring the United States as racist and using the N-word to emphasize his point, Barack Obama made some other remarks that have gone largely unnoticed by the Mainstream Media that offer further and troubling insight into a man seemingly obsessed with the belief he should remain the center of the known political universe…

 

During that same already infamous interview, the president indicated his belief that he would be an even better presidential candidate if he was running again for a third term because,

“I know what I’m doing and I’m fearless.”

Self-declared as both knowledgeable and fearless and a man pining for a third term as president.

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Federal Judge Reopens Suit to Obtain Huma Abedin’s Clinton E-Mails

National Review

A federal judge has reopened a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit that aims to obtain e-mails between former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her longtime aide, Huma Abedin, saying that the discovery of Clinton’s private server warranted the revival of the case.

Judicial Watch, a nonprofit watchdog group, asked the judge to find that Clinton had committed fraud, but he demurred, choosing instead to rely on a rule that allowed for the case to be reopened due to a change in circumstances. The State Department agreed that this rule applied.

“The Court will rely upon that provision, rather than spilling ink to resolve their dispute as to whether Judicial Watch has submitted clear and convincing evidence of fraud by the State Department,” Judge Emmet Sullivan wrote in his order today. Though Sullivan declined to definitively vindicate their fraud accusation, Judicial Watch hailed the ruling as a victory.

“The reopening of this case brings Judicial Watch one step closer to forcing the State Department to ensure that the government records in Hillary Clinton’s ‘secret’ email system are properly preserved, protected and recovered as federal law requires,” Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton said in a statement. “Ms. Abedin is part of the Clinton cash-raising operation and was even involved in the Benghazi scandal, so this lawsuit could not be more timely.”

Abedin has long served as one of Clinton’s closest aides, but Politico reported in May that she was given “special government employee” status that allowed her to work for outside clients — including one that advises foreign governments — while remaining on the State Department payroll. She is also the staffer who asked Bill Clinton’s team to allow Hillary Clinton to host her e-mails on a private server that the former president had already established, according to a Wall Street Journal report. “Privately,” that report noted, “aides of the former president worried that adding her account would make the system a target for hackers.”

Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/420063/hillary-clinton-email-lawsuit-reopened