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am disappointed but not surprised by the decision to move forward on the disastrous Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement that will hurt consumers and cost American jobs. Wall Street and other big corporations have won again. It is time for the rest of us to stop letting multi-national corporations rig the system to pad their profits at our expense. This agreement follows failed trade deals with Mexico, China and other low-wage countries that have cost millions of jobs and shuttered tens of thousands of factories across the United States. In the Senate, I will do all that I can to defeat this agreement. We need trade policies that benefit American workers and consumers, not just the CEOs of large multi-national corporations.

resident Obama supports the agreement, and he said that every word will be available for public review before he signs it, “Once negotiators have finalized the text of this partnership, Congress and the American people will have months to read every word before I sign it.”

TPP could also become a major point of division between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders on the campaign trail.

They don't want the establishment—whether a political party, or the media—pushing anything on them

upbeat humor seemed a more effective strategy in attacking Drumpf because it held the prospect of turning undecided voters away from the billionaire without his loyalists complaining that he was being treated unfairl

"Maybe it’s time to blow [the Republican Party] up,”