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Politcs TPP Disad AFF Note: See the Sept File for Link Answers. *A2: UNIQUENESS*
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- Lobbyists on both sides hate the TPP
- McConnell is key. TPP won’t pass because he’s in the pockets of Big Pharma and Big Tobacco
- TPP is Inevitable – Opposition is Irrelevant
- No TPP vote until late 2016
Politcs TPP Disad AFFNote: See the Sept File for Link Answers. *A2: UNIQUENESS*TPP Won’t PassTPP won’t pass. It’s too controversial so uniqueness outstrips the linkKevin Zeese, JD is an organizer of Popular Resistance and co-directs Its Our Economy and Margaret Flowers, MD co-director of Its Our Economy, is a Maryland pediatrician, October 22, 2015, “Spread The Word: TPP Is Toxic Political Poison That Politicians Should Avoid,” Mint Press News, http://www.mintpressnews.com/spread-the-word-tpp-is-toxic-political-poison-that-politicians-should-avoid/210557/, ACC. 10-28-2015 The TPP will not have an easy time in Congress. Leading presidential candidates and congressional leaders have expressed opposition or serious reservations. And, some major corporate interests are opposed. An election year is not the time for controversial legislation, and the toxic TPP will be controversial. The key will be the House of Representatives. Mega-transnational corporations and Obama are making passage a top priority. House Speaker John Boehner did too, and he was forced to resign because of his bullying tactics. He aggressively pressured Republicans to give Obama fast-track authority, pushing about 30 Republicans who opposed fast track to vote for it. After the vote, he punished those who opposed him, removed them from subcommittee chairmanships and from the Republican leadership. The Caucus revolted, and some of Boehner’s decisions had to be reversed. Members of the Caucus called for his replacement, and rather than fight that battle, Boehner resigned. Lobbyists on both sides hate the TPPYves Smith, Staff Writer, October 22, 2015, “TPP Teeters in US Congress,” Naked Capitalism, http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2015/10/tpp-teeters-in-us-congress.html, ACC. 10-28-2015 It seems most sides are dissatisfied with the TPP. The powerful US pharmaceutical lobby is livid that the TPP did not secure better monopoly protections, whereas Big Tobacco and its representatives in Congress are furious that the industry has been carved-out of the investor-state dispute settlement provision, thus limiting its ability to take legal action against member states that regulate against the tobacco industry. Whereas on the left, opponents to the TPP include organised labor and most environmental groups who are concerned about the TPP’s impacts on American jobs and the environment. McConnell is key. TPP won’t pass because he’s in the pockets of Big Pharma and Big TobaccoKevin Zeese, JD is an organizer of Popular Resistance and co-directs Its Our Economy and Margaret Flowers, MD co-director of Its Our Economy, is a Maryland pediatrician, October 22, 2015, “Spread The Word: TPP Is Toxic Political Poison That Politicians Should Avoid,” Mint Press News, http://www.mintpressnews.com/spread-the-word-tpp-is-toxic-political-poison-that-politicians-should-avoid/210557/, ACC. 10-28-2015 This week, Big Pharma expressed its anger at the TPP requiring “only” an eight year patent monopoly for biologic drugs, when 12 years are the law in the United States. The U.S. will have to harmonize its laws with the TPP. Obama held a meeting with the pharmaceutical executives at the White House to assuage them, but he failed. The Hill Reports Big Pharma is “searching for a playbook in its effort to keep Congress from ratifying the deal next year.” Senator Hatch says that support for the TPP is shrinking in the Senate and “I’ve heard some very trying things that may very well make it impossible to pass.” The largest recipient of pharmaceutical funding is Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. He is also funded by the tobacco lobby, which is trying to top the TPP. TPP is Inevitable – Opposition is IrrelevantGeopolitical significance means Congress will pass TPP regardless of current oppositionKen Moriyasu, Staff Writer, October 30, 2015, “TPP a 'defining moment' for America-led world,” Nikkei Asian Review, http://asia.nikkei.com/Features/Trans-Pacific-Partnership/TPP-a-defining-moment-for-America-led-world, ACC. 10-30-2015 For that to happen, the U.S. Congress would first have to ratify the agreement. Politicians from President Barack Obama's own party, including leading Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, have said they oppose TPP. Yet, Shapiro said he is "absolutely confident that Congress will approve the TPP in 2016." "Access to these fast growing markets in Asia, where the middle class consumers of the present and the future are, benefits every sector of the U.S. economy," he said. "People in Congress understand the geopolitical significance of it. If it is not approved, nothing we do or say will have credibility in the Asia Pacific and probably globally." *A2: INTERNAL LINKS*No Vote Anytime SoonNo TPP vote until late 2016Yves Smith, Staff Writer, October 22, 2015, “TPP Teeters in US Congress,” Naked Capitalism, http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2015/10/tpp-teeters-in-us-congress.html, ACC. 10-28-2015 Given the mounting opposition to the TPP, rumors have emerged that the Obama Administration will wait until the lame duck session after next year’s Presidential Election to give Congress the chance to take its first vote on the deal, effectively delaying ratification to late-2016 at the earliest. For now, political opposition in the US and elsewhere remains the best chance of the TPP being scuttled, or at least delayed. 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