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House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) expressed confidence at the new strategy to grant President Obama fast-track authority to negotiate trade deals like the controversial Trans-Pacific Partnership.

The statement came as Republican leadership move forward with a new strategy to pass legislation granting President Obama “fast track” authority to negotiate trade deals.

National Journal notes that there remain rule dissenters that hold positions of leadership who could be affected as well including Reps. Jim Bridenstine (R-OK), Louie Gohmert (R-TX), Mark Meadows (R-NC), and John Fleming (R-LA).

The vote on the rule is expected to take place Tuesday. Conservative groups have called on Republicans to vote against the rule as a way to further scuttle the Obamatrade effort. TPA would grant Obama “fast-track” authority to negotiate trade deals.

Friday, the House defeated TAA 126-302, in a striking rebuke to President Obama who had hours earlier met with the Democratic caucus to make the case for fast-track trade authority.

Approximately 40 House Republicans are on record against the deal, just a few short hours ahead of the vote. GOP leadership is getting steadily more desperate in its attempts to lobby members to support it at the 11th hour.

By passing Trade Promotion Authority we’ll actually give Congress more openness more involvement in what the trade agreement may look like if we ever get one and goal posts along the way,” Boehner told reporters Thursday.

“Trade votes are never an easy lift around here but Republicans are continuing to work and we’re seeing some positive momentum in the right direction,” House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) told reporters Wednesday morning, following the House GOP Conference’s weekly closed door meeting.

In fact, the situation is devolving so rapidly out of control for leadership that at a “Whip Briefing” for legislative staffers on Monday, GOP leadership officials wouldn’t even commit that there will ever be a vote to pass Obamatrade—never mind confirm when.

Two members of House GOP leadership—Majority Whip Steve Scalise and Rules Committee chairman Rep. Pete Sessions (R-TX)—refused to admit through spokespersons to Breitbart News whether they have read the text of the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) Pacific Rim trade deal, but they still support granting President Barack Obama the Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) to fast track it.

On Thursday, Wikileaks released new information about the international trade deal being negotiated by the Obama administration in secret and with the approval of many top Congressional Republicans.

The formal rescission of Cuba’s designation as a State Sponsor of Terrorism is yet another example of the Obama administration befriending enemies instead of reaffirming alliances, House Speaker John Boehner says.

Matt Drudge took to Twitter to deliver an ongoing tirade against Republicans’ eagerness to deliver a fast-track trade bill to President Obama’s desk. The bill’s details have not been made public — which hasn’t stopped Republicans from surrendering Congress’s power to make amendments to a president’s future trade deals.

Speaker John Boehner is skeptical about the nuclear agreement with Iran, and says Congress will continue to hold the administration to account on the deal.

House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) contends that the relationship between Israel and the United States remains strong. Boehner met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a trip to Israel.