[CAF Note: Pay attention – not a word about this until the day after citizens paid their federal taxes.]
By Michael McAuliff
Congress’ tax committees announced an agreement Thursday to speed through a bill to give President Barack Obama the fast-track authority that he will need to push mammoth new trade deals through Congress.
While a deal had been believed to be in the works, news that it was actually done came as a surprise to members of both the House Ways and Means Committee and the Senate Finance Committee, which had been called to a hearing on the deal less than 12 hours earlier.
2023 Annual Wrap Up: Water (148 pages) 
With Fukushima’s man-made radiation still being released, how can we be sure our food doesn’t contain radioactive pollution? True food protection will be impossible if the the Obama Administration’s secret trade deal called the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) is rammed through Congress.
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