The four leading Republican and Democratic candidates for president - Cruz, Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders - all oppose it. The trade deal faces strong political headwinds. Chamber of Commerce and the American Farm Bureau. The other leaders of the TPP coalition include the Business Roundtable, the U.S. We joined with many of our sister associations to expand the leadership of the existing coalition,” said Linda Dempsey, vice president of international economic affairs at the National Association of Manufacturers. We certainly would like to see it move forward this year. “The NAM is strongly supportive of moving forward the TPP. Coalition for TPP, which includes some of the biggest multi-national companies and manufacturers in the country, see the lame duck as their best chance for getting the massive trade bill through Congress, something that is likely to be an uphill fight. “There’s a great concern, generally, that there will be major spending efforts contrary to conservative principles being pushed through by Republican leaders in alliance with Democrats,” said Tom Fitton, president of Judicial Watch.
history, passed before Obama leaves office.Ĭonservatives also fear that a massive omnibus spending bill might move after the election. Grassroots conservatives say they’re mobilizing early to get ahead of the powerful business groups that want the TPP, the largest trade deal in U.S. The Huffington Post reported that conservatives in the House Freedom Caucus have discussed different strategies for killing a lame-duck session, perhaps by voting en bloc against procedural motions. What’s notable about the pressure campaign is that it’s happening nearly seven months before Election Day.Ĭruz is likely to have strong support from House conservatives, who gave him enough political muscle to stand up GOP leaders in 2013 when the government shut down in the midst of an effort to stop the implementation of ObamaCare. Kenneth Cribb, Jr., a former Reagan adviser. David Bozell, president of ForAmerica Brent Bozell, founder and president of the Media Research Center and T. Other early signers are Kenneth Blackwell, chairman of Constitutional Congress Inc. The group had collected more than 70 signatures as of Wednesday afternoon, according to a person familiar with the effort. The lead signers were Edwin Meese III, who served as attorney general under former President Ronald Reagan, and Becky Norton Dunlop, a former Reagan adviser and chairwoman of the Conservative Action Project. “By promising now that there will be no lame duck session of Congress (except, of course, in the case of an unforeseen sudden emergency requiring immediate federal action) the Republican-led Congress can take an important first step in restoring the American people’s trust in their government,” the groups wrote in a letter organized by the Conservative Action Project. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) told The Washington Post in December that the TPP shouldn’t come up before the elections, but didn’t go so far as to rule out a vote in 2016.Ĭonservative leaders are circulating a letter urging Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) and McConnell to swear off the prospect of a legislative session in the window between Election Day and the start of a new Congress. 10, but he hasn’t missed much - GOP leaders have shelved most of the controversial items until after the elections. Movement conservative leaders who have worked with Cruz say they’ll be collaborating with him to quash talk of a lame-duck session before it has a chance to gain momentum.Ĭruz hasn’t voted in the Senate since Feb. “They’ll get more than they would under President Donald Trump or President Ted Cruz,” the aide added. They know they better get what they can while Barack Obama, Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell are in charge,” the aide said, referring to D.C.’s lobbying community. “I’m guessing K Street will want a massive lame-duck session unless Hillary Clinton wins the White House. 1 fear of grassroots conservatives and Tea Party voters with regard to a lame-duck session,” said a senior GOP aide familiar with the movement. “Passage of the Trans-Pacific Partnership is the No. Indeed, business groups disappointed with the glacial pace in Congress this year see the lame duck as virtually the only chance of moving some of their most prized bills, including legislation implementing the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal. Ted Cruz is leading a conservative effort to end any chance of a lame-duck congressional session at the end of the year.Ĭruz, a freshman senator from Texas running for president, and right-leaning groups see huge dangers in having a session after the November elections, which they think could be used to move legislation backed by President Obama or even to confirm his Supreme Court nominee.
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