Hillary Clinton criticizes Trans-Pacific trade pact

But at the same time, they say she must find ways to distinguish herself – and undercut Republican attacks that Clinton would simply provide a third Obama term. “With more than 95 percent of the world’s consumers living outside our borders, TPP will significantly expand the export of Made in America goods and services and support American jobs”.

One good aspect of the fast track legislation passed earlier this year is that it gives Congress 90 days to review the agreement.

Whether it’s a fair judgment or not, Clinton’s reputation for triangulation and an excessive wet-finger-in-the-wind approach to policy is going to dog any leftward change in viewpoint-or seeming change-that she makes throughout the campaign, even when those new viewpoints are ones her liberal critics support. Across the whole time period, she has said details needed to be hammered out, and they had to meet certain standards.

“I encourage Congress to repeal the so-called Cadillac Tax, which applies to a few employer-based health plans, and to fully pay for the cost of repeal”, Clinton said in a statement.

Richard Trumka, president of the AFL-CIO labor group, which opposes the pact, praised Clinton.

“We’re stalled economically and we know that states, families, everybody is under pressure for all kinds of reasons”, Clinton said during a campaign event last month. She promised that “better jobs with higher wages and safer working conditions, including for women, migrant workers and others too often in the past excluded from the formal economy will help build Asia’s middle class and rebalance the global economy”.

“I think people want-they are exhausted of transactional politics”.

Lis Smith, O’Malley’s deputy campaign manager, said Tuesday that “Clinton’s plan falls short on what should be our ultimate goal: preventing reckless Wall Street speculators from backing up their bad bets with taxpayer money”.

In a major political setback to US President Barack Obama, his party’s leading presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has opposed the multi-nation Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal.

The risk for Clinton in these new positions is that it nearly guarantees a challenge from Biden.

During an interview with PBS NewsHour, Clinton backtracked on her support for the trade deal, which is set to become a key part of Obama’s legacy.

In the summary, Mrs. Clinton would also consider granting more power to the Financial Stability Oversight Council.

The site mentions that Clinton has been a supporter of TPP.

Her announcement on the TPP comes just a week ahead of the first televised debate of the Democratic presidential contenders.

Sanders, however, released a statement saying he stands with the president here and opposes the no-fly zone.

“I think Hillary Clinton would be the first to say that when you’re sitting in the seat that I’m sitting in the situation room, things look a little bit different, because she has been right there next to me”.

“Whether it is the Keystone pipeline, whether it is TPP, these are issues that I have had a very strong opinion on from Day One”, Sanders told reporters. (Fortunately for Clinton, she wasn’t caught until after the Ohio primary, which she won.) President Obama and his Secretary of State Hillary Clinton put approximately zero seconds of effort into “renegotiating” NAFTA.