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From Common Dreams:
“With Corporate Deals Shrouded In Secrecy, Lawmakers Call for ‘Sunlight’ Representatives introduce legislation to force clandestine agreements like the Trans-Pacific Partnership into the open, Published on Wednesday, June 10, 2015 by Common Dreams-Sarah Lazare, staff writer

Civil society organizations across the globe have vigorously opposed efforts to ram through closed-door pacts. (Photo: Canadians.org, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0)

A bipartisan group of lawmakers unleashed a last-ditch effort on Wednesday to, at the very least, force the administration of President Barack Obama to publicly reveal the contents of corporate-friendly trade deals before attempting to ram them through Congress via controversial Fast Track legislation.

Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D-Ohio) introduced the Trade Review Accountability Needs Sunlight and Preview of Any Regulations and Exact Negotiated Components Resolution on Wednesday. The legislation, which has 16 co-sponsors, “requires any proposed trade deal to be made publicly available for a minimum of 60 days before…