Ways & Means Chair Paul Ryan (R-WI) is pushing to bring his awful Fast Track legislation for a vote in the House next week. We need your help stopping him. Please call your U.S. Representative now at 1-888-804-8311 and urge him or her to vote NO on Fast Track.
Representative Ryan’s Fast Track bill has already passed in the Senate, and if approved by the House, would allow secretive trade deals like the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) to be rushed through Congress, circumventing ordinary review, amendment and debate procedures.
Despite being under negotiation for years now, the American public has been barred from reviewing what TPP negotiators have been proposing in our names. Meanwhile, hundreds of corporate lobbyists — representing companies like Walmart, Chevron and Cargill — have had special “cleared advisor” status which provides them with privileged access to the TPP texts and TPP negotiators. That’s not right.
Providing a Fast Track rubber stamp to back-room trade deals sight unseen is NOT the way to make sound public policy in a democracy. It may pad the profits of well-connected transnational corporations, but only at the expense of the economy, the environment and public health at home and abroad.
The good news is that, together, we can stop Fast Track. TAKE ACTION NOW: please call your Representative at 1-888-804-8311 and urge him or her to vote NO on Fast Track.
Literally thousands of organizations — representing the labor, environmental, family farm, civil rights, digital rights, human rights, public health, consumer, faith, student and other movements — have united to say NO to Fast Track. We can win this. We just need your help.
Now really is the time for action. Fast Track proponents are trying to move quickly. Let’s knock them off track. Please call your Representative now.
PS — If you can’t call now, you can still make a difference by emailing Congress and supporting WFTC’s work with a donation. Thank you!
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