
Rep. Steve King (R-IA) successfully pushed legislation through the House that prevents the Obama administration from negotiating immigration and climate change provisions with trade deals.
by Alex Swoyer11 Dec 2015, 3:11 PM PST0

As Ted Cruz rises to second place in Iowa, he has placed further philosophical distance between himself and Sen. Marco Rubio by coming out strongly against the President’s Trans Pacific Partnership agreement.
by Julia Hahn22 Nov 2015, 2:38 PM PST0

The Wall Street Journal, one of the news organizations that moderated the fourth GOP presidential debate here, is misstating frontrunner billionaire Donald Trump’s position on Obamatrade.
by Matthew Boyle12 Nov 2015, 1:09 PM PST0

This is the first time Carson himself has weighed in on Obamatrade, and the move comes after his spokesman Doug Watts previously told the Wall Street Journal he was open to it. Watts told the WSJ the day after President Barack Obama’s White House released the 5,544-page, 100-pound, several-feet-high-when-printed-out trade deal that Carson “believes the agreement does help to level the playing field in key markets and is important to improve our ties to trading partners in Asia as a counterbalance to China’s influence in the region.”
by Matthew Boyle10 Nov 2015, 6:55 AM PST0

GOP presidential frontrunner Donald Trump tells Breitbart News exclusively that his enormous success in business is the reason he’s polling more than four times better than all his opponents when it comes to GOP voters’ views on who can best handle the economy.
by Matthew Boyle9 Nov 2015, 12:42 PM PST0

GOP frontrunner Donald Trump lambasted the permanent political class for supporting the Trans-Pacific Partnership free-trade deal, in an exclusive interview with Breitbart News ahead of the next debate.
by Matthew Boyle9 Nov 2015, 12:41 PM PST0

Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Immigration and the National Interest, is calling for the immediate destruction of the 5,554-page Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trans-global trade deal introduced on Thursday.
by Matthew Boyle5 Nov 2015, 1:48 PM PST0

A GE Power and Water factory on the border between Rep. Paul Ryan’s district and Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner’s district in Wisconsin is moving its manufacturing to Canada, costing hundreds of Americans in those districts their jobs.
by Alex Swoyer23 Oct 2015, 10:05 AM PST0

Paul Ryan was one of the strongest advocates to grant Obama fast-track trade authority under the Trade Promotion Authority (TPA).
by Alex Swoyer11 Oct 2015, 8:39 AM PST0

The Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement between the U.S. and 11 other countries contains a chapter on intellectual property rights that could impact freedom of expression, according to The Guardian. This news comes after Breitbart News reported there is a controversial chapter on immigration law within the Trade in Services Act (TiSA), another part of President Obama’s trade pact.
by Alex Swoyer10 Oct 2015, 9:43 AM PST0

GOP frontrunner Donald Trump is hammering President Barack Obama, his administration and Congress for completely failing the American worker when it comes to trade policy—whacking the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade pact with 12 Pacific Rim nations that the Obama just finalized in Atlanta as a deal that jeopardizes U.S. jobs.
by Matthew Boyle5 Oct 2015, 2:49 PM PST0

Gov. Mike Huckabee slammed President Barack Obama’s new campaign to win Hill approval for a new Pacific-wide free-trade treaty with 11 countries. “Once again, American workers are getting punched in the gut by Washington because this deal is a handout to insiders, interest groups, Obama’s allies and Asia,” said Huckabee, a GOP presidential candidate and former Arkansas governor, shortly after the president announced the completed deal Oct. 5.
by Alex Swoyer5 Oct 2015, 11:56 AM PST0

Billionaire Donald Trump, the 2016 GOP frontrunner, tells Breitbart News he doesn’t believe Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) read Obamatrade before becoming the critical 60th vote for President Barack Obama’s trade agenda.
by Matthew Boyle28 Sep 2015, 9:56 AM PST0

AJ Kern—“a politically engaged resident of Sauk Rapids” who publishes a column for the St. Cloud Times (SCTimes)—recently argued that worker visas and the Trade Pacific Partnership (TPP) threaten American workers.
by Alex Swoyer1 Jul 2015, 7:27 PM PST0

This comes on the same day that Freshman Class President Rep. Ken Buck (R-CO) was called for a meeting where rumor had it that he would also be removed from his position for voting against House leadership on TPA.
by Alex Swoyer25 Jun 2015, 9:29 AM PST0

Texas Senator and GOP presidential candidate Ted Cruz argued that Republican leadership is “more indebted to K Street and the Washington lobbyists, the Washington cartel than they are to conservatives” on Wednesday’s “Special Report” on the Fox News Channel. “Cruz
by Ian Hanchett24 Jun 2015, 8:56 PM PST0

Florida Sen. Marco Rubio’s office claims—while refusing to answer questions—that the senator read Obamatrade before voting for cloture on Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) the second time in the Senate.
by Matthew Boyle24 Jun 2015, 8:08 PM PST0

The legislation passed the House last week, and now moves to President Obama’s desk for his signature.
by Alex Swoyer24 Jun 2015, 1:43 PM PST0

“In America, we don’t retaliate against people for expressing their views,” Rep. Buck told Breitbart News of the rumored pending punishment. “We don’t retaliate by calling a meeting with one day’s notice to remove someone from office without any explanation.”
by Alex Swoyer24 Jun 2015, 7:50 AM PST0

Texas Senator and GOP presidential candidate Ted Cruz slammed the Senate’s vote to end debate on Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) as “another manifestation of what I call the Washington cartel” and “government of the lobbyists, by the lobbyists, and for
by Ian Hanchett23 Jun 2015, 7:00 PM PST0

GOP presidential candidate and real estate mogul Donald Trump called into Howie Carr’s radio show Tuesday to say that if he is doing well during his candidacy, he would spend whatever it takes to win.
by Alex Swoyer23 Jun 2015, 5:05 PM PST0

Rubio, a Republican presidential candidate, was the deciding vote necessary for the U.S. Senate to clear the final 60-vote threshold and eventually, later this week, send to President Barack Obama’s desk the Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) bill that would fast-track at least three highly secretive trade deals that Obama has been negotiating for years.
by Matthew Boyle23 Jun 2015, 2:11 PM PST0

Talk radio host Rush Limbaugh argued that the secrecy of various trade deals shows “donors are running the game here” on Tuesday. Rush said that what the procedure around deals such as TPP “demonstrates is that the group of people
by Ian Hanchett23 Jun 2015, 1:26 PM PST0

Kentucky Senator and GOP presidential candidate Rand Paul argued that TPA is giving the president power on trade bills, some of which he says seem like “more of an outline of the bill” on Tuesday’s broadcast of “The Kuhner Report” on Boston’s
by Ian Hanchett23 Jun 2015, 9:57 AM PST0

The cloture vote ends further debate setting up the final TPA vote in the Senate Wednesday. If it passes, it moves on to the president’s desk to be signed.
by Alex Swoyer23 Jun 2015, 8:36 AM PST0