{"id":181345,"date":"2016-07-23T20:10:00","date_gmt":"2016-07-24T01:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/07\/23\/pelosi-comes-out-against-tpp\/"},"modified":"2016-07-23T20:10:00","modified_gmt":"2016-07-24T01:10:00","slug":"pelosi-comes-out-against-tpp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/07\/23\/pelosi-comes-out-against-tpp\/","title":{"rendered":"Pelosi Comes Out Against TPP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am inclined to believe that this not a change of heart, but rather <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eff.org\/deeplinks\/2016\/07\/success-leader-pelosi-stands-users-oppose-tpp\">political realities forcing her to do the right thing<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Today, EFF joined a broad coalition of other public interest groups  at Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi&#8217;s office in San Francisco, to present  her with a petition carrying an incredible 209,419 signatures with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eff.org\/deeplinks\/2016\/06\/tell-leader-nancy-pelosi-stand-against-tpp\">request to oppose<\/a> the introduction of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eff.org\/issues\/tpp\">Trans-Pacific Partnership<\/a> (TPP) during the post-election &#8220;lame duck&#8221; session of Congress. And with your help, <a href=\"https:\/\/act.eff.org\/action\/leader-nancy-pelosi-stand-against-the-tpp\">we succeeded<\/a>! In a letter that she handed us at our meeting, Leader Pelosi wrote:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">As Congress and the American people review the finalized  terms of the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP), we must put American  workers first to allow our economy to grow and America to succeed.  Please be assured that I will oppose the TPP as it is currently written  or any deal that attempts to separate commerce from the environment and  will work to ensure that our nation&#8217;s trade policies include increased  transparency, more consultation, and stronger protections to create  jobs, strengthen human rights, and preserve the environment.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Yes, I am rather cynical about this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am inclined to believe that this not a change of heart, but rather political realities forcing her to do the right thing: Today, EFF joined a broad coalition of other public interest groups at Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi&#8217;s office in San Francisco, to present her with a petition carrying an incredible 209,419 signatures with &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[964,1016,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foreign-relations","category-international-commerce","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181345"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}