Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), who has been adamantly pushing against the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), on Tuesday called on Hillary Clinton to take a “clearer” stance on the trade deal the U.S. is negotiating with 11 Pacific countries.
Warren told Bloomberg News that she would like to know more about Clinton’s views on a provision in the trade deal that Warren says could undermine U.S. financial regulations.
“She’s always said that she is opposed to that, but I’d like to see her be clearer on that,” Warren said.
In a Tuesday interview with the Huffington Post, Warren noted that Clinton already weighed in on the TPP’s arbitration panels that could undermine U.S. regulations in her book, “Hard Choices,” but asked the presidential candidate to discuss the issue further.
“Look, she’s already said what she said in her book about the arbitration panels and I’d like her to weigh in on trade, I think it’s important,” Warren told the Huffington Post.
During an event in Iowa on Tuesday, Clinton said that she was worried the TPP may give “corporations more power to overturn health and environmental and labor rules than consumers have,” according to CNN.
But Clinton said she would need to see the final deal before taking a firm stance.
“I want to judge the final agreement. I have been for trade agreements; I have been against trade agreements,” she said, according to CNN.
Warren and President Obama have been engaged in an ongoing feud over the TPP. Warren and other Democrats worry that the trade deal could hurt the economy and undermine U.S. financial regulations. Obama has maintained his support for the deal and said Warren is “absolutely wrong.”
Warren…the reason why the Dems will lose the Presidency…
Of course the party loyalist suckups will blame everybody but their corporate ball licking candidates.
“I want to judge the final agreement. I have been for trade agreements; I have been against trade agreements,” she said, according to CNN.
Well now, how about stating for the record WHICH you support and why. I don’t know of any that have benefited the American worker, but I’m willing to listen.
No. Sen. Warren is the reason we are discussing the issue. Discussion among the people most affected by the TPP is good and fair. This also exposes the fact the Republicans are totally behind President Obama, the agreement AND Fast Track – Why? – Seriously, they have fought the man tooth and nail for the last six years but this huge, very expansive agreement is more than okay? Money. Given our nation’s history with these agreements, her very real concerns are very warranted.
Thank you, Sen. Warren!!
It is a world economy…Warren is a bankruptcy law professor,Real
GDP will remain mired at +2% a year if you are lucky under a Warren
adminstration…each addtional 1% in GDP growth is an addtional 1.5
million jobs…Progressives are naive how the world works…
Actually I think that republican voters hate the thought of pushing American jobs overseas, which this bill seems to do, only slightly less than they hate Obama. So I’m guessing a lot of them will reluctantly find themselves in agreement with Warren (or actually just against anything Obama is for) that they don’t want this trade deal to go through. And I’m sure republicans still won’t vote for Hillary if she, like they, is against it. But if this deal doesn’t go through now, hopefully it won’t later on regardless of which party gets elected next.